Get 75 free 3D plants suitable for North American forests

Download DigitalTris' 75 free 3D models of trees, ferns and grasses on the Unreal Engine marketplace.

Sunday, December 13th, 2020

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Esri ships CityEngine 2020.1

Procedural city generation tool can now import assets in USD format for VFX work, and generate LODs automatically for Unreal Engine.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2020

Pixar ships RenderMan 23.5

Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020

SideFX ships Houdini 18.5

Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020

Get Quixel's free Megascans plugin for Unreal Engine

Version 6.3 of the free plugin adds neat new vertex blend material, better LOD export for 3D plants.

Wednesday, October 14th, 2020

Nuke and Unreal Engine win 2020 tech Emmy Awards

Compositing app and virtual-set-powering game engine honored for their impact on the TV industry.

Monday, October 12th, 2020

Download over 500 free real-time 3D plants and buildings

Get games asset studio SilverTM's City Park Environment Collection free from the UE4 Marketplace.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020

Download 50 free 3D models of jungle plants

Get environment artist Baiquni Abdillah's 50 3D models of South East Asian trees, ferns and flowers.

Sunday, August 9th, 2020

Toolchefs updates free open beta of Atoms Unreal

New UE4 plugin for Atoms Crowd promises to create large real-time crowd sims on consumer PCs.

Saturday, August 8th, 2020

Epic Games will pay you $10,000 to learn Unreal Engine

New Unreal Fellowship program will pay VFX and games pros to do four weeks of online UE4 training.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Epic Games releases official Blender to Unreal Engine tools

Transfer rigged characters between Blender and UE4 with free plugins Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2020

Download over 50 free 3D scanned plants and rocks

Get NatureManufacture's pack of 3D models of meadow plants and trees free on the UE4 marketplace.

Wednesday, July 8th, 2020