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Game engine gets new automated secondary animation system, support for PhysX 4.1, updates to the visual programming system.

Tuesday, September 17th, 2019

Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

Game engine gets new PhysX Force Region component, plus the option to interrupt one character animation transition with another.

Friday, August 2nd, 2019

Free game engine gets new procedural vegetation system, plus sizeable update to the Script Canvas visual scripting system.

Thursday, June 20th, 2019

Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

Unity 2018.3 ships

Update adds support for nested prefabs, new particle and terrain tools. Visual Effect Graph and GPU lightmapper out as tech previews.

Thursday, December 13th, 2018

Free game engine gets support for morph targets, new wind and force volumes, volumetric cloud system, visual scripting improvements.

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018

Big update to the open-source game engine to add new PBR renderer, new audio engine, visual scripting, and early VR support.

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018

Game engine gets support for Google's ARCore AR system, better lightmapping and media playback.

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

Now officially released. Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, new Vulkan renderer, and terrain blending.

Thursday, September 21st, 2017

Rendering middleware firm's 'next-level C# game engine' now shipping commercially, but still free to individuals and indie studios.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Check out the neat new clothing simulation options and Immediate Mode physics system due in the next release.

Tuesday, March 28th, 2017

Open source C# engine from firm behind Final Fantasy XV's render tech to go commercial in April.

Friday, February 24th, 2017