Tutorial: VFX for Games
Discover how to create real-time fantasy effects with Houdini and Unreal Engine in The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.
Sunday, July 2nd, 2023
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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
Get free UV packing tool UV-Packer for Unreal Engine
New Unreal Engine 5 edition integrates 3d-io's popular UV packing tool into the game engine.
Monday, February 6th, 2023
Free tools: Unreal Live Link 2.1 for Maya is out
Check out the new features in Autodesk and Epic Games' free plugins live-linking Maya and UE5.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
Golaem ships Golaem 8.0
Major update to the Maya crowd simulation software lets users interact with Golaem simulations inside Unreal Engine in real time.
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27
See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.
Monday, August 23rd, 2021
Glassbox Technologies ships DragonFly 2.5
See what's new in the virtual camera system for Maya, Unity and UE4 and in its iOS companion app.
Friday, April 30th, 2021
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 3.4
See the new features in the Maya and Houdini crowd animation tool. Now free for low-budget projects.
Thursday, June 11th, 2020
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 4.3
Photogrammetry app gets 'knife cut' tool for cleaning up meshes; neat option to generate blueprints automatically for 3D buildings.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Get Paragon UE4 character and environment assets free
Updated with new free assets. Download 39 characters and 1,500 environment assets from Epic Games' MOBA.
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.20
UE4-based visualisation platform gets iterative import workflow, new SketchUp exporter, MDL support.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
Epic to give UE4 Marketplace creators 88% of product sales
Up from 70% before - and applied retroactively to every sale made since the store opened in 2014.
Thursday, July 12th, 2018