Unity 2018.3 ships
Update adds support for nested prefabs, new particle and terrain tools. Visual Effect Graph and GPU lightmapper out as tech previews.
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
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Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2019.3
Update adds interactive rendering in the ActiveShade viewport, plus better OSL and Alembic support.
Wednesday, December 12th, 2018
Download the free D-NOISE plugin for Blender
Neat add-on uses Nvidia's AI-based OptiX tech to denoise renders, baked textures - and even photos.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
Quixel tools now available separately to Megascans data
New policy lets Megascans users subscribe purely to Quixel Bridge and Quixel Mixer for $19/month.
Monday, December 10th, 2018
Download free 3D scans of food from creative crops
Get free scans of bread and vegetables in OBJ, FBX or Cinema 4D format with 8K PBR textures. Commercial use.
Sunday, December 9th, 2018
Spend an evening with Simon Stålenhag at Gnomon
Meet the creator of Tales from the Loop and The Electric State at an exclusive Q&A at the school's LA campus next week.
Saturday, December 8th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2018.3
Material authoring software gets PBR Render node, faster texture baking on Nvidia's new RTX GPUs.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
cebas ships finalRender Drop 2
Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Nevercenter ships Silo 2.5.6
Lightweight subdivision surface modelling tool gets GoZ support for exchanging models with ZBrush.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 4 R2
Popular suite of 250+ add-on tools for Foundry's 3D painting software now updated to support Mari 4.x.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Shotgun Software ships Shotgun 8
Major update to the production tracking system introduces new 'cloud-connected desktop app' Shotgun Create.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 4.3
Photogrammetry app gets 'knife cut' tool for cleaning up meshes; neat option to generate blueprints automatically for 3D buildings.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Abvent releases Twinmotion 2019 v2
Update to real-time visualisation tool integrates BIMobject's online library of free 3D furniture models.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018