Sneak peeks: Unity's Visual Effect Graph and CineCast

See Unity's new framework for authoring complex GPU-driven FX and nifty 'synthetic director' system.

Thursday, October 25th, 2018

Free tool Materialize converts photos to PBR materials

Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.

Thursday, October 18th, 2018

Preflight prepares 3ds Max models for export to UE4

SiNi Software's new plugin automatically identifies missing textures and fixes doubled or flipped faces.

Thursday, October 18th, 2018

SideFX ships Houdini 17

Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2018

PlaySys ships Real IES 3.0

Newly updated lighting design app lets users create their own custom IES lights, including those with complex or asymmetric profiles.

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018

Review: Dell Precision 7920 Tower workstation

Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.

Thursday, October 4th, 2018

Get Paragon UE4 character and environment assets free

Updated with new free assets. Download 39 characters and 1,500 environment assets from Epic Games' MOBA.

Tuesday, September 25th, 2018

Epic Games releases free Shotgun integration for UE4

New plugin integrates UE4 with the production-tracking system. Includes a Maya FBX exporter for asset review.

Friday, August 31st, 2018

New PiXYZ Software tools get CAD data into Unity, UE4

Now shipping: alternatives to Unreal Studio help prepare CAD data for import into game engines.

Friday, August 17th, 2018

Polywink creates blendshapes and rigs for any head model

Digital doubles firm Eisko's new online service also readies 3D avatars for animation on iPhone X.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2018

Epic to give UE4 Marketplace creators 88% of product sales

Up from 70% before - and applied retroactively to every sale made since the store opened in 2014.

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

Sketchfab launches its own online 3D model store

Now officially out of beta. Get 10% off purchases with Sketchfab's discount code until 4 July 2018.

Friday, June 29th, 2018

Google open-sources Seurat

Updated: Free tech converts offline renders to 3D geometry for use in mobile VR. Has exporters for Maya, Unity, UE4 - and now 3ds Max.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018