5 industry stories you may have missed in January 2022
See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
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Check out Epic Games' free Project Anywhere XR
Neat free Unreal Engine project lets you navigate to anywhere on the globe in augmented reality.
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
Pilgway ships 3DCoatTextura
New sub-€100 3D texturing app can be used to paint or bake 16k PBR texture maps for use in other DCC software or game engines.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Adobe ships Photoshop 22.4
Image-editing software now runs natively on ARM processors under Windows 10, like those in Microsoft's Surface Pro X tablets.
Monday, May 17th, 2021
iPi Soft releases iPi Motion Capture 4.4
Markerless mocap software suite can now stream motion capture data to Unreal Engine in real time.
Friday, March 26th, 2021
Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development
Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
Adobe ships Fresco 1.9
Natural media painting and vector drawing app for iOS and Windows devices gets new brush previews, plus support for clipping masks.
Thursday, August 20th, 2020
Microsoft becomes latest tech giant to back Blender
Strings-free €30,000/year donation will help pay for new Blender staff - now including non-developers.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Chaos Group on V-Ray Next and the future of rendering
V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Videos: See Microsoft's new DirectX Raytracing in action
Updated: neat Star Wars short shows the real-time effects possible in UE4 with this new extension to DX12.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
PipelineFX releases Qube! 6.10
Renderfarm manager's new online analytics reports let render wranglers monitor site stress and system load on a per-minute basis.
Thursday, July 6th, 2017
Microsoft buys Simplygon
Intelligent polygon reduction and LOD technology used on games like The Witcher 3 to form part of firm's '3D For Everyone' strategy.
Thursday, January 19th, 2017