Tools to watch in Fall 2024: Style3D Atelier and Simulator

Check out this promising new 3D clothing design tool for VFX and game development, and its Unreal Engine cloth simulation plugin.

Wednesday, August 28th, 2024

Recreate the moon in UE5 with Cesium's free moon terrain data

Detailed free dataset based on NASA imagery can be used with Cesium's open-source plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine.

Sunday, August 11th, 2024

QuadSpinner releases Gaea 2.0

Check out the new features in this major update to the terrain design tool, and its new integration plugins for Houdini and Unreal Engine.

Thursday, August 1st, 2024

Zibra AI unveils ZibraVDB

Now officially released: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.5

Material authoring and 3D capture software can now send materials directly to 3ds Max, Blender, Maya, Unity and Unreal Engine 5.

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

Move AI launches AI-based real-time mocap solution Move Live

Markerless motion-capture software streams data live to Unreal Engine, or can post-process it to a 'AAA quality' Blender file.

Thursday, June 27th, 2024

Andras Ketzer releases FluidNinja VFX Tools 1.8

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine simulation baking tool, including support for UE5's new Heterogeneous Volumes.

Saturday, June 22nd, 2024

CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2024.0

Updated: check out the 3D clothing design software's new USD-based workflow for exporting simulations to Unreal Engine 5.4.

Monday, April 29th, 2024

Cell Fluids 1.6 for Blender is out

Promising lightweight Blender fluids add-on can now bake simulations for export to game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

Download giant free UE5 VR asset pack Barney's Basement

Get Sentient Art's detailed free Unreal Engine 5 sci-fi interior environment, including over 150 free 3D models. For commercial use.

Friday, March 15th, 2024

Download free custom Houdini tools from Project Pegasus

Get the Flora plant-generation tools SideFX developed for its tech demo on creating open worlds with Houdini and Unreal Engine 5.

Sunday, February 4th, 2024

Glassbox Technologies ships DragonFly 3.2

Check out the new features in the virtual camera system for Maya and Unreal Engine, including additive recording, and native Vicon support.

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024

Polygonflow releases Dash 1.4 in early access

Neat tool to simplify world building in Unreal Engine 5 gets new Physics Paint system, PBR texture packing. Perpetual licenses now available.

Wednesday, December 27th, 2023