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texture creation

Video: Intriguing 'augmented digital material creation' tool will blend hand painting, parametric editing and AI workflows.

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018

Download Dan Rožański's handy free alpha masks for creating bolts, pipes, valves, vents and panelling.

Sunday, December 3rd, 2017

Big update adds new tools for recreating real-world materials via photogrammetry, 32-bit workflow, 8K texture baking.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2017

Cool new cloud-based service uses an AI-driven system to tile, extend or 'mutate' game textures automatically.

Wednesday, April 13th, 2016

Updated, now shipping: Games texturing toolkit gets powerful 3D painting and map baking options. See the new features in action here.

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Version 5.3 of the texturing tool adds Nvidia's GPU-accelerated renderer, complete with Yebis post effects.

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

Toolkit for turning source images into games texture maps gets new PBR shaders, new emissive and opacity outputs.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2015

Master the powerful node-based texturing tool with Naughty Dog artist Rogelio Olguin's Gnomon tutorial.

Friday, September 4th, 2015

The texturing tool gets lots of useful little workflow improvements in the node graph, plus a new HSV mode.

Friday, May 29th, 2015

Straightforward general-purpose app tiles source photos into a range of common texture map types.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Games texture map creation tool gets support for PBR workflow. Neat shadow-removal and tiling options.

Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

Spot five bugs or more in the Photoshop texture plug-in and net a copy of Filter Forge 3.0 Professional.

Monday, May 2nd, 2011