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
Game Engine
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
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal Update 3
Plugin transfers scenes created in other editions of V-Ray to UE4 for rendering. Check out what's new.
Thursday, June 25th, 2020
Crytek posts its 2021 CryEngine roadmap
Check out the features due in the next update to the game engine, now postponed from spring 2020.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Unity launches AR authoring solution Unity Mars
New paid Unity add-on provides a more user-friendly environment for authoring and testing augmented reality content.
Tuesday, June 9th, 2020