Unity 2019.3 ships
Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
Game Engine
Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint
Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.
Monday, January 13th, 2020
Download free terrain editing software TerreSculptor 2.0
Neat 'open use' tool exports 3D terrains or heightmaps to DCC tools and game engines, at up to 65K resolution.
Friday, January 10th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.22
Game engine gets a new automated system for bundling assets for release with a game, plus new texture debugging features.
Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.24
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.
Sunday, December 15th, 2019
Xenko team ships Xenko 3.1
C#-based open-source 2D and 3D game engine gets its first major update since being made available under an MIT licence last year.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Real-time ray tracing, Havok physics due in Unity this year
Updated: Havok Physics now out as a preview package. DXR ray tracing also available in preview.
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Unity subscription prices to rise in 2020
Cost of new Plus subscriptions to rise 14%; new Pro subscriptions up 20%. Existing subs unaffected.
Friday, October 18th, 2019
Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2020 product roadmap
See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3
Friday, September 27th, 2019
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.21
Game engine gets new automated secondary animation system, support for PhysX 4.1, updates to the visual programming system.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019
Crytek releases CryEngine 5.6
Game engine gets support for area lights and multilayer microfacet materials, new ragdoll IK system and updates to cloth simulation.
Friday, August 30th, 2019