Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.4 in beta
3D capture software's new AI-based Text to Texture feature generates seamlessly tiling textures from simple text prompts.
Saturday, March 23rd, 2024
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Adobe adds Firefly generative AI features to Substance 3D tools
Substance 3D Sampler and Substance 3D Stager get new AI-powered Text to Texture and Generative Background features.
Monday, March 18th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.3
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new Texture Generators to add procedural noise to materials. Perpetual licenses discontinued.
Friday, January 26th, 2024
Adobe unveils new Substance 3D Connector
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
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.2
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets
Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
Polycam gets new AI-based 360 Capture system
Mobile 3D scanning app's new mode captures 360° environments on phones without 360° cameras.
Friday, June 2nd, 2023
Use NeRFs in Unreal Engine with Luma AI's new plugin
Get volumetric captures into UE5 to use as props or environments with the plugin, currently free in alpha.
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
Polycam 3.0 released
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
Sneak peek: Allegorithmic's spellbinding Project Alchemist
Video: Intriguing 'augmented digital material creation' tool will blend hand painting, parametric editing and AI workflows.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
Capturing Reality releases RealityCapture
Updated, now shipping: Neat new 3D capture tool generates clean, ultra-detailed meshes from source images or scan data.
Thursday, February 4th, 2016
HP announces new 3D scanning system for Sprout
Free 3D scanning software and $299 USB turntable for the all-in-one 'creativity station' to ship in July.
Friday, June 12th, 2015
Back xxArray's Kickstarter; get a 3D scan of yourself
$350 gets you the chance to play with 'cinema-quality' data from the high-end full-body capture system.
Wednesday, April 29th, 2015