5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Friday, December 31st, 2021

Free tools: Material Maker now also does 3D painting

Promising open-source node-based material authoring tool gets new 3D texture painting toolset.

Wednesday, July 7th, 2021

Which CG applications support Apple's new M1 chips?

Discover which 3D, image-editing and rendering apps will support the first Apple Silicon processors when they ship next week.

Friday, November 13th, 2020

Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.24

Check out the changes to PhysX physics, cloth simulation and collision geometry in the latest version of the free game engine.

Friday, May 22nd, 2020

ArmorPaint wins $25,000 Epic MegaGrant

The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

Get free procedural texture generator Material Maker

Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out.

Sunday, January 26th, 2020

Xenko team ships Xenko 3.1

C#-based open-source 2D and 3D game engine gets its first major update since being made available under an MIT licence last year.

Thursday, November 14th, 2019

Blender 2.80 ships

Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Unity Technologies releases Unity source code on GitHub

But don't get too excited: it's for reference only, not modification, and it's the C# source, not the C++.

Thursday, March 29th, 2018