Daniel Bystedt's free Blender add-on creates hair cards from curves
Handy new free add-on turns curve-based Blender hair to faster-rendering geometry for use in games and real-time apps.
Monday, March 18th, 2024
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Epic releases MetaHuman DNA Calibration Library
Epic Games' new free tools let users view and edit the 'DNA' of next-gen MetaHuman characters.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
Free feather and hair nodes for Substance 3D Designer
Neat add-ons generate textures for use inside game engines like UE5, complete with flow and ID maps.
Monday, July 11th, 2022
Get the free 'mesh to MetaHuman' plugin for Unreal Engine
New Epic Games plugin turns facial scans and sculpts into next-gen MetaHuman characters for use in Maya or UE5.
Friday, June 10th, 2022
Check out real-time hair creation tool Fiber Shop 2
Interesting standalone app authors fibre- or card-based hair for use in game engines and real-time apps.
Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
Reallusion releases Character Creator 3.4
Real-time 3D character-creation tool gets new Smart Hair system of modular hairstyles and facial hair.
Thursday, March 25th, 2021
Hair Cards Tool for Max creates strip-based hair for games
Check out Gameloft character artist Mihail Lupu's neat new 3ds Max tool for creating fast-rendering hair.
Friday, February 19th, 2021