Use Faceware Studio for free for six months
New PLE licences of the real-time facial mocap software can be used with MetaHumans in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Game Engine
Intel releases Open Image Denoise 1.4
Check out this major update to the CPU-based render denoising system used in Blender and Unity.
Monday, May 24th, 2021
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.28
Minor update to the free game engine adds support for the latest Twitch API, while users wait for the release of the new Atom renderer.
Friday, May 21st, 2021
Godot 3.3 ships
Unexpectedly major update to the game engine adds a new web editor, new CPU lightmapper, and native support for Apple's M1 chips.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Epic Games launches MetaHuman Creator
Hotly tipped next-gen character creator now free in early access, along with 50 sample characters.
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
Sneak peek: Lumberyard's new Atom renderer
Amazon's free game engine to get new 'high-performance physically based renderer' with an interesting modular design.
Friday, April 9th, 2021
Get Volume 2 of Epic's Virtual Production Field Guide for free
Free 158-page PDF provides an overview of new workflows and job opportunities in virtual production.
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2021.1
Significant update to the real-time visualisation tool adds new bridge to UE4, new Megascans assets.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
Free Cesium for Unreal plugin creates a virtual Earth in UE4
New open-source plugin streams real-world geospatial data into UE4 from platforms like Cesium ion.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
iPi Soft releases iPi Motion Capture 4.4
Markerless mocap software suite can now stream motion capture data to Unreal Engine in real time.
Friday, March 26th, 2021
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
mGear team ships mGear 3.7
Big update to the open-source Maya rigging framework adds new tools to auto-rig game characters, and for using mGear rigs in UE4.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Discover how to optimise games in Unreal Engine
Fix performance bottlenecks and optimise art assets in UE4 with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.
Thursday, March 4th, 2021