e-on software ships Vue R4 and PlantFactory R4
Vue gets automated real-world terrain data import; PlantFactory gets 3ds Max and Maya plugins.
Friday, December 13th, 2019
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Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0
Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
Rizom-Lab releases RizomUV 2019.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools for DCC work and product design now run on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.
Friday, December 6th, 2019
StemCell converts 3ds Max, Maya files to UE4 and Unity
Updated: TurboSquid tech converts files in the native format of one 3D app to that of another. Now also exports USDZ files.
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists
Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.
Friday, November 29th, 2019
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2020.3
MAXtoA plugin updated to support Arnold 5.4, but otherwise, it's mainly bugfixes this time round.
Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 4.0 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulator gets new rigid body solver and texture UVW system. 3ds Max edition now integrated with thinkingParticles.
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
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
Download MASD's free Arnold to V-Ray scene converter
Mads Drøschler's handy 3ds Max add-on converts V-Ray and Corona scenes to Arnold for rendering.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
AWS Thinkbox releases Deadline 10.1
Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018.3
Big free update to the LightWave modelling toolkit adds new tools for UV mapping NURBS surfaces and for converting quads to NURBS.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
Check out neat retopology tool QuadRemesher
Updated: now available for Blender. Exoside's new tool turns messy models into clean all-quad meshes.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019