Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Eye candy: Adobe's Substance 2020 games reel
Watch a high-speed rundown of the year's most beautiful AAA games, all created using Substance tools.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Get CG software for free during the coronavirus outbreak
Need to work from home? Your CG software may be available free if you use these companies' tools.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Eye candy: SideFX's 2020 Houdini games reel
See cinematics, real-time content and some very cool procedural game tools created in Houdini.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Act-3D releases Lumion 10.3
Real-time visualisation software gets an improved render preview, support for displacement maps, new live link plugin for AutoCAD.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
cebas ships finalRender Drop 4
3ds Max renderer gets support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, plus GPU memory sharing via NVLink.
Saturday, March 14th, 2020
Glassbox Technologies releases BeeHive
Interesting collaboration tool for virtual production and VR syncs scene editing sessions across Maya, UE4 and Unity.
Saturday, March 14th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2.1
Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Epic Games acquires facial mocap firm Cubic Motion
Unreal Engine developer continues to buy its partners from its recent real-time digital human tech demos.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Arseniy Korablev releases Teya Conceptor
Unusual concept sculpting tool formerly known as Polybrush gets streamlined new UI, macOS edition.
Thursday, March 12th, 2020
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.1
Big update gives the visualisation tool new rendering features, better 3D characters and plants - and an aggressive new price.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
Unity acquires Artomatix
AI-driven tools developer's material-processing tech to be integrated in Unity, but will remain available for other game engines.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
Check out neat ZBrush retopology tool EaZyremesh
Interesting new $7 tool lets users control edge flow on remeshed geometry by painting guide lines.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020