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
Game Engine
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
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range Ampere card performs in real-world DCC and GPU rendering tests.
Saturday, February 27th, 2021
Houdini Engine for UE4 and Unity now free to all users
Houdini Engine plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine now free for larger studios, not just indie artists.
Friday, February 26th, 2021
Get UModeler Lite for free
New Lite edition of Tripolygon's popular sketch-based modeling and level design tool for Unity can be used free in commercial work.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Godot Engine gets $120,000 development grant from Kefir
Leading Russian mobile game studio backs future dev work on the open-source game engine.
Monday, February 15th, 2021
Tilt Brush goes open source
Google stops development of its virtual reality 3D painting and concept art app, but users can now compile it free from source code.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Filter Forge 10.0 ships
Tool for authoring Photoshop filters and converting images into PBR texture maps gets new projects system, and new lower pricing.
Friday, January 15th, 2021
Eye candy: the new Unreal Engine next-gen games reel
Check out the gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 and 5 titles due out for PS5 and Xbox Series X in 2021.
Monday, January 4th, 2021
Basefount releases Animcraft
Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020