Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.26
Update to the free game engine officially replaces CryPhysics with PhysX, and improves the terrain and dynamic vegetation systems.
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Game Engine
Baya exports your Blender models as Maya files
Neat plugin streamlines transfer of assets between Blender and Maya, particularly in games pipelines.
Friday, September 25th, 2020
2020 CGarchitect rendering survey shows trends in arch viz
V-Ray and Corona top list of most popular architectural renderers, but use of Twinmotion, Enscape and UE4 also rising.
Thursday, September 24th, 2020
Wysilab wins Epic MegaGrant for Instant Terra
Money will help fund development of an Unreal Engine live link plugin for the terrain generation software.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
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
Maxon awarded $200,000 Epic MegaGrant
Money will fund development of a Cineware-style live link between Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine.
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs – 2020
Read Jason Lewis's in-depth review of Nvidia's Quadro RTX and AMD's Radeon Pro workstation GPUs.
Friday, August 28th, 2020
Unity Technologies files for IPO
Unity has 1.5 million users and is used to create over half the games released, but the firm still made a loss of $163.2 million last year.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
Download KitBash3D's free Neo City buildings kit
Get futuristic 3D buildings in the native formats of 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya, Houdini, UE4 and Unity. For commercial use.
Monday, August 17th, 2020
Unity reveals 2021 roadmap
See the new tools for games artists due in Unity 2020 LTS, 2021.1 and 2021.2 - plus a bonus for anyone with a free Personal subscription.
Friday, August 14th, 2020
Reallusion ships July 2020 updates to digital human tools
Check out the new features in Character Creator 3.3, iClone 7.8 and the SkinGen Premium plugin.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.25
Sizeable update to the free AAA game engine introduces new UI, plus white box testing and node-based landscape authoring tools.
Monday, July 20th, 2020
SideFX 'backports' new features to Houdini 18.0
Can't wait for Houdini 18.5? Check out the neat new topology transfer and rendering options available in Houdini 18 today.
Wednesday, July 8th, 2020