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global illumination

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

Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.

Thursday, July 30th, 2020

Read our run-down of the key new features in the game engine, from better ray tracing to AI-driven character posing.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2020

See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support.

Wednesday, May 6th, 2020

3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.

Friday, April 24th, 2020

Open-source renderer gets support for glTF export, triplanar mapping. Blender plugin supports some Cycles light settings.

Monday, March 23rd, 2020

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

Open-source renderer gets new GI cache system, Disney BRDF material and Open Image Denoise. Now compatible with Blender 2.80.

Wednesday, October 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

Now available to download: Nvidia updates the 1997 shooter for real-time path tracing on Turing GPUs.

Monday, June 10th, 2019

One of the oldest 3D applications gets updated for current Hi-DPI displays and multicore CPUs, and gains a photon mapping system.

Friday, December 28th, 2018

Long-awaited update to game engine updates GI system and Sandbox editor; introduces new 5%-of-royalties licensing model.

Monday, September 24th, 2018

Big update to the open-source game engine to add new PBR renderer, new audio engine, visual scripting, and early VR support.

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018