RandomControl updates Maverick Indie and Studio
Both GPU renderers get new options for rendering animations, plus a free GPU benchmarking tool.
Monday, November 9th, 2020
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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
Download Pawel Olas's free packs of PBR leaf textures
Get free PBR texture packs from the creator of LightWave plugin treesDesigner. Commercial use.
Sunday, June 28th, 2020
e-on software ships Vue R5 and PlantFactory R5
Check out the new features in the lastest updates to e-on's landscape and plant generation software.
Wednesday, June 24th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2020.1
3D texture painting tool gets new real-time decal mode, GPU-based curvature map baker, Python API.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.3 and BlendLuxCore 2.3 ship
Open-source renderer gets support for glTF export, triplanar mapping. Blender plugin supports some Cycles light settings.
Monday, March 23rd, 2020
Act-3D releases Lumion 10.3
Real-time visualisation software gets an improved render preview, support for displacement maps, new live link plugin for AutoCAD.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Check out versatile Cinema 4D plugin NoiseScape v2
Neat add-on creates a beautiful set of procedural displacement effects for motion graphics and CG work.
Monday, February 10th, 2020
Download over 500 free 4K PBR texture sets
Get architectural textures at up to 4,096 x 4,096px resolution from online resource library Texture Fun. For commercial use.
Sunday, February 2nd, 2020
Radeon ProRender for Blender gets 'full spectrum rendering'
Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for Cinema 4D
Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system, improves rendering of caustics.
Thursday, November 28th, 2019
Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max
Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system and new hair materials to the renderer.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
e-on software ships Vue R3 and PlantFactory R3
Vue gets new orthographic camera and support for V-Ray Next; both apps get better Substance support.
Monday, August 19th, 2019