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Game Engine

Game engine gets support for area lights and multilayer microfacet materials, new ragdoll IK system and updates to cloth simulation.

Friday, August 30th, 2019

Game engine gets new PhysX Force Region component, plus the option to interrupt one character animation transition with another.

Friday, August 2nd, 2019

Blender 2.80 ships

Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Unity 2019.2 ships

Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Includes an animated male figure and two rigged female figures. Multiple common 3D formats; for commercial use.

Monday, July 8th, 2019

New Unity edition of the popular 3ds Max destruction tool lets users destroy 3D geometry at runtime.

Monday, July 1st, 2019

Free game engine gets new procedural vegetation system, plus sizeable update to the Script Canvas visual scripting system.

Thursday, June 20th, 2019

CryEngine 5.6 to add layered microfacet materials. CryEngine 5.7 to see real-time ray tracing, big animation update.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Creators of UE4 and Unity win 2019 Technology & Engineering awards, along with Massive, Golaem, Miarmy and Houdini.

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Sizeable update to the game engine extends support for PhysX, and adds new animation and texture-processing functionality.

Monday, March 18th, 2019