Chris West updates Terrain plugin for 3ds Max
Popular plugin turns online DEM data into 3D terrain inside 3ds Max - now to 30m resolution worldwide.
Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
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Exlevel ships GrowFX 2.0
Long-awaited overhaul of the 3ds Max plant-generation plugin adds new Node Editor for authoring plants via visual programming.
Monday, March 8th, 2021
Erik Lehmann releases RS Shader Kit 2.0 for Maya
Check out the Scanline VFX artist's compact, streamlined alternative to the native Hypershade interface.
Saturday, March 6th, 2021
Check out super-cool 3ds Max snow plugin PolySnow Plus
Neat plugin for adding realistic snow to 3D scenes gets brush-based sculpting, new icicle object.
Friday, February 19th, 2021
Hair Cards Tool for Max creates strip-based hair for games
Check out Gameloft character artist Mihail Lupu's neat new 3ds Max tool for creating fast-rendering hair.
Friday, February 19th, 2021
Wysilab ships Instant Terra 1.15
Check out the new features in the terrain generator, including new options for searching for and importing real-world terrain data.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Snappers unveils Snappers Wrinkles Designer
Crazy new Maya toolset will let you design wrinkles for 3D characters interactively and export to UE4.
Friday, October 16th, 2020
AutoMAT makes Marmoset Toolbag materials for you
Neat €3 plugin assembles folders of texture maps into PBR materials for 'even the messiest scenes'.
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
PolyCloth brings Blender-style cloth sculpting to 3ds Max
Jealous of the new cloth-sculpting tools in Blender and ZBrush? This physics-based add-on should help.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Download free ZBrush workflow add-on FJTools 1.5
Handy plugin for managing and renaming SubTools gets new one-click system for remeshing sculpts.
Thursday, August 13th, 2020
KeenTools ships FaceBuilder 2.1 for Nuke and Blender
Neat add-on for creating 3D head models from images now works with photos from multiple cameras.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.1
Read our run-down of the key new features in the game engine, from better ray tracing to AI-driven character posing.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
Epic Games releases official Blender to Unreal Engine tools
Transfer rigged characters between Blender and UE4 with free plugins Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2020