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3D capture

Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.

Friday, February 21st, 2025

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

Material-authoring app gets new generative AI features for creating textures or patterns from text prompts and refererence images.

Friday, May 24th, 2024

Substance 3D Sampler and Substance 3D Stager get new AI-powered Text to Texture and Generative Background features.

Monday, March 18th, 2024

Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new Texture Generators to add procedural noise to materials. Perpetual licenses discontinued.

Friday, January 26th, 2024

Open-source plugin architecture will let you send assets from the Substance 3D applications direct to Blender, 3ds Max and Maya.

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023

Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023

Mobile 3D scanning app's new mode captures 360° environments on phones without 360° cameras.

Friday, June 2nd, 2023

Get volumetric captures into UE5 to use as props or environments with the plugin, currently free in alpha.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2023

Check out the new features in the popular LIDAR scanning and photogrammetry app, available for iOS, Android and as an online tool.

Monday, December 19th, 2022

Video: Intriguing 'augmented digital material creation' tool will blend hand painting, parametric editing and AI workflows.

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018

Updated, now shipping: Neat new 3D capture tool generates clean, ultra-detailed meshes from source images or scan data.

Thursday, February 4th, 2016

Free 3D scanning software and $299 USB turntable for the all-in-one 'creativity station' to ship in July.

Friday, June 12th, 2015