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Now officially released. Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, new Vulkan renderer, and terrain blending.

Thursday, September 21st, 2017

In-VR mesh and animation editing tools now available as free public preview. Support for OpenSubdiv and USD also due.

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Export scenes from the rendering toolkit to Unreal Engine and have materials set up automatically.

Monday, January 2nd, 2017

New features in varied update range from Alembic support to the option to paint meshes inside the VR Editor.

Thursday, September 8th, 2016

New tech lets UE4 users import Alembic files, complete with hierarchies, material assignments and deformations.

Friday, May 27th, 2016

New plugin enables games artists to edit procedural content created in Houdini inside Unreal Engine 4.

Tuesday, December 8th, 2015

Wide-ranging update adds new modelling, animation, simulation tools; native support for RenderMan RIS shaders.

Thursday, October 15th, 2015

Tool for auto-fitting 3D clothing to 3D characters gets new plugins for round-tripping assets to Unity and Unreal. Supports MetaHumans.

Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Now production-ready: neat new tool creates VFX-quality fluid simulations for export to CG software in USD or Alembic format.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Check out the features due in next year's major update to the terrain design app, including USD support and new Blender and Maya plugins.

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025

Big update to the GPU renderer adds meshlet streaming for dense geometry, and support for 3DGS data, MaterialX and OpenPBR.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

Promising new tool based exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG software. Now updated to support spray emission.

Monday, December 1st, 2025

Open-source alternative to tools like Substance 3D Designer and Painter gets a long-awaited update. Check out the new features.

Tuesday, October 7th, 2025

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