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Download sets of texture maps for bricks, concrete, wood and plaster at 4,096 x 4,096px resolution.
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
ambient occlusion
Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint
Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.
Monday, January 13th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81
The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Reallusion ships Headshot 1.0
AI-driven plugin for Character Creator generates 3D models of human heads from single source photos, with PBR texture maps.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Foundry ships Mari 4.6
Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.1
It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.
Friday, August 16th, 2019
Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 4.2
Texture map generation tool gets new low-cost student and personal licences for non-commercial work.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.2
Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Download free texture de-lighting tool Agisoft De-Lighter
Handy standalone tool removes baked-in shadows from textures generated via photogrammetry.
Monday, July 8th, 2019
Uppercut releases U-Render 2019.06 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' physically based renderer gets support for 360° spherical and overscan rendering.
Friday, June 21st, 2019
Cycles 4D gets principled shading, Cryptomatte support
Check out the new features in Insydium's Cinema 4D version of Blender's Cycles render engine.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.0
Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019