Free Cesium for Unreal plugin creates a virtual Earth in UE4

New open-source plugin streams real-world geospatial data into UE4 from platforms like Cesium ion.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Houdini Engine for UE4 and Unity now free to all users

Houdini Engine plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine now free for larger studios, not just indie artists.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

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

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

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal Update 3

Plugin transfers scenes created in other editions of V-Ray to UE4 for rendering. Check out what's new.

Thursday, June 25th, 2020

Godot Engine wins $250,000 Epic MegaGrant

Strings-free dev grant will be used to improve the open-source game engine's rendering capabilities.

Tuesday, February 4th, 2020

iClone Unreal Live Link now free to indie users

Reallusion makes plugin originally priced at $1,490 free to artists earning less than $100,000/year.

Monday, January 20th, 2020

Epic Games to make Unreal Studio's tools available free

Real-time visualisation platform's Datasmith toolkit will become part of UE4, not as a paid-for service.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Esri ships CityEngine 2019.1

Edit 3D buildings created in the city-generation tool procedurally in Maya via new integration plugin Serlio: free for non-commercial use.

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.23

Unreal Engine-based real-time visualisation platform gets native support for Cinema 4D, IFC files.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

Reallusion releases iClone Unreal Live Link

Plugin transfers iClone characters, lights and cameras to UE4 for real-time rendering, but it isn't cheap.

Friday, July 26th, 2019

Esri ships CityEngine 2019.0

Procedural city generation software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, improved integration with Houdini and Unreal Studio.

Thursday, May 16th, 2019

Eye candy: the 2019 Godot engine games reels

See the best games created in the popular open-source engine, from colourful tower defence titles to ultra-cute shooters.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019