Nevercenter releases Silo 2025 and Milo 2025
Nevercenter has begun its 2025 releases of Silo, its lightweight 3D modelling software, and Milo, its Unreal Engine-based real-time renderer.
Silo 2025.0 adds the option to generate UVs for a model by projecting them the viewport.
Milo 2025.0 adds direct support for Silo’s Modifiers.
A lightweight sub-D modeller and accompanying real-time renderer
First released in 2003, Silo built up a reputation as an efficient, focused modelling package.
It has a streamlined set of polygonal and subdivision surface modelling tools, a topology brush for drawing new topology over a reference object, and interactive real-time UV unwrapping.
As well as creating low-poly assets for games or real-time applications, it can be used to rough out base models for sculpting in ZBrush, and supports its GoZ bridge system.
Although development stalled during the 2010s, the pace picked up again with the release of Silo 2021, with Nevercenter also launching Milo, a new standalone Unreal-Engine-based real-time renderer and VR viewer.
Milo 2025.0: support for Silo’s Modifiers
The key change in Milo 2025.0 is direct support for Silo’s Modifiers, making it easier to see the results of procedural modeling operations.
Rather than having to bake modifiers to render them, saving out a .sib file from Silo and reloading it in Milo automatically updates the scene.
Silo 2025: generate UVs for models using viewport projection
Silo 2025.0 adds a new option in the Recreate UVs command: Using Current Viewport Projection.
It generates UVs for a model by projecting them from any of the orthographic or perspective viewports, with the option to apply them to the entire object, or only to selected faces.
The software could already generate UVs using a range of other projection types, and unwrap UVs using the LSCM (Least Squares Conformal Mapping) method.
Pricing and availability
Silo and Milo are available for Windows 10 and macOS 12.0+.
Perpetual licences of Silo have an MSRP of $159, which includes Milo. The updates are free to anyone who has bought the software in the past year.
Read a full list of new features in Silo 2025 and Milo 2025 in Nevercenter’s release notes
Read more about Silo and Milo on Nevercenter’s product website
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