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Tree-generation software for games and VFX gets new Projectors system for adding surface details like moss and snow.

Friday, July 21st, 2023

Free add-ons Polyhive, Leonardo.ai and Layer AI generate PBR textures and sprites inside the Unity Editor.

Friday, July 14th, 2023

Godot 4.1 ships

Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, including improved particle turbulence and volumetric fog.

Friday, July 7th, 2023

Discover the key features in the new stable version of Unity, including better water, hair, skin and lens flares.

Thursday, July 6th, 2023

Discover which Nvidia GPU is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.

Monday, June 26th, 2023

Neat tool for sculpting and deforming animation caches from other DCC apps gets new FBX pipeline for use with game engines.

Friday, June 16th, 2023

Check out the key features for CG artists in the game engine's new Long Term Support release, including the new water system.

Friday, June 2nd, 2023

Read our run-down of the latest features in UE5, from procedural content and Substrate materials to Chaos Flesh.

Friday, May 12th, 2023

Big update to the open-source game engine adds node-based material system, OpenXR support.

Friday, May 5th, 2023

Now shipping: visualisation tool gets streamlined new UI, updated path tracer, multi-GPU rendering.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2023

Open-source geospatial data plugins create full-scale replicas of the Earth inside game engines.

Saturday, March 25th, 2023

Use the AI chatbot to write custom scripts inside After Effects, Blender, Nuke and Unity with these add-ons.

Friday, March 24th, 2023

New plugin makes rendering model turntables or product visualisations inside UE5 a one-click process.

Friday, March 24th, 2023