Free tools: Material Maker now also does 3D painting
Promising open-source node-based material authoring tool gets new 3D texture painting toolset.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
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Pixar ships RenderMan for Blender
New RenderMan integration places the open-source 3D app on the same footing as Maya or Houdini.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Get the free V-Ray glTF viewer
Visualise models in the popular real-time 3D file format using the V-Ray renderer with Chaos's new set of open-source Python scripts.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
mGear team ships mGear 3.7
Big update to the open-source Maya rigging framework adds new tools to auto-rig game characters, and for using mGear rigs in UE4.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Download free UV packing tool UV-Packer for Blender
New Blender edition of 3d-io's popular 3ds Max plugin optimises UV packing of complex models.
Monday, March 1st, 2021
Download free storyboarding tool Storyboarder 2.0
Try this versatile - and newly updated - free tool for creating 2D and 3D storyboards and animatics.
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020
Download Nvidia's free Texture Tools Exporter 2020.1
Create compressed textures for games with this neat Photoshop plugin and standalone application.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Aaron Dabelow open-sources his 3ds Max add-ons
Handy tools like procedural geometry creator Debris Maker 2 available free under a MIT licence.
Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Get free procedural texture generator Material Maker
Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out.
Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Get promising free low-poly 3D modeling tool Dust3D
Neat ultra-lightweight tool creates low-poly games assets, complete with automated character rigs.
Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
Xenko team ships Xenko 3.1
C#-based open-source 2D and 3D game engine gets its first major update since being made available under an MIT licence last year.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.2
Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Mechanical Color's Dara tools for Modo go open-source
Popular set of Modo modelling, shading and rendering plugins now available free under an MIT licence.
Friday, June 8th, 2018