Polygonal Design releases Unfold3D Generation 9
Big update to UV unwrapping tool adds neat brush-based workflows for optimising UVs; UDIM support and Lua scripting.
Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
UV unwrapping
Autodesk announces Maya LT 2016
Indie-game-focused version of Maya to get new brush-based sculpting and UV workflows, PBR shading.
Monday, March 2nd, 2015
Raylight Games releases XrayUnwrap for Maya
Formerly 3ds Max-only real-time UV mapping toolset now available to Maya users, too. It costs under $20.
Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
3D-Coat gets new, improved UV algorithm - by accident
New Global Uniform unfolding system was originally only added to fix a crash, says 3D-Coat blog.
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
Polygonal Design releases Unfold3D Generation 8
UV unwrapping tool now handles million-triangle meshes and outputs multi-grid UVs for use in Mari.
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 6.2
Free update to the low-cost Mac-only 3D app adds ABF UV unwrapping, better ring and loop selection tools.
Friday, February 1st, 2013
Videos: Autodesk reveals new features in Max 2012
Update to feature Nitrous viewport, start of unified physics system, new LSCM UV unwrap tools.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011