Side Effects unveils Houdini Engine for 3ds Max, Unreal
Unreal Engine plugin being developed in house; 3ds Max version by former Digital Domain TD Hideki Suzuki.
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
Unity
Faceshift 2014 ships
Kinect-based facial scanning and markerless mocap tool gets quicker setup, improved tracking quality.
Friday, June 20th, 2014
Stream facial mocap data from a Kinect live into Unity
Updated plugin for the Faceshift markerless facial capture system offers new real-time workflow.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Esri ships CityEngine 2014.0
Powerful procedural city-generation tool gets new plugins integrating it with Maya and Unity.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
Unity 4.5 ships
Mainly bugfixes this time, but there are new 2D physics tools, plus stereo support for DirectX 11 games.
Wednesday, May 28th, 2014
Side Effects announces Houdini Engine pricing
Engine starts at $495; free plugin enabling users to edit Houdini content inside Maya ships in July.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
The Foundry ships Mari 2.6
Good update for games artists adds physically correct shading, layered GLSL shaders, in-viewport IBL.
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Mindbomb Apps releases Gfx Hotkeys 4.0
Useful iOS reference app now lists keyboard shortcuts for 79 editing, 3D, compositing and tracking tools.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
Southpaw Tech announces Tactic | aWare for Unity
New $399 tool hopes to fill gap in market for an asset-management system aimed at indie game devs.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 4.1
Games texturing tool gets new baking options and ability to group nodes. Eight new video tutorials, too.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Get Godot: like Unity, but open source
Mobile and PC developer Okam Studio releases its multi-platform in-house engine via a MIT licence.
Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
Grade games like films with Amplify Color for Unity
Intuitive colour-grading extension now optimised for mobile devices; supports Color Volumes.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
Side Effects launches Houdini Engine plugins for Maya, Unity
Free experimental versions of the plugins let other apps import Houdini Digital Assets in editable form.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013