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Unreal Engine 5

Promising new tech compresses complex destruction, cloth and liquid simulation caches for real-time rendering inside Unreal Engine.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2025

Big update to the GPU-based terrain generator adds new biome and object scattering systems. See all of the changes, and the new pricing.

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025

Check out the changes to the kitbash asset library's browser app, plus the free 3D vehicles, models and materials available through it.

Sunday, September 21st, 2025

Check out the new features in the animation software, including support for Character Creator 5, and new export presets for UE5.

Thursday, August 28th, 2025

Indie users can now use the real-time effects tech to compress and play back an unlimited number of OpenVDB sequences for free.

Tuesday, August 19th, 2025

New tech demo on creating natural environments for games in Houdini and Unreal Engine includes tools to generate procedural cliffs and ruins.

Sunday, July 27th, 2025

Dress MetaHumans faster with the new plugin to help round-trip data between Unreal Engine and the 3D clothing fitting tool. Free in beta.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025

Now out of early access: next-gen video-to-PBR AI model lets artists relight video footage without manual 3D reconstruction.

Monday, July 21st, 2025

Major update to the next-gen terrain generator for games and VFX adds 10 new nodes, and updates over 20 more. Check out the new features.

Tuesday, July 15th, 2025

Updated: free Blender-based tool generates 3D interiors, from rooms to entire houses. Check out its new Infinigen-Sim toolset.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

Get custom tools for creating stylized game assets, including procedural generators for 3D buildings, bridges and clouds.

Thursday, June 26th, 2025

Get Praxinos's versatile 2D animation, storyboard and texture painting toolset for UE5 free from Fab, including for commercial use.

Sunday, June 15th, 2025

Discover how to create game environments grounded in architectural principles with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Monday, June 9th, 2025