SideFX just released Houdini 22
Check out the latest features in Houdini, from a complete new 3D Gaussian Splatting toolset to major updates to KineFX and Copernicus.
Thursday, July 16th, 2026
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MatPlus puts Substance 3D-style texture painting inside Blender
Promising hard-surface-focused add-on implements Substance 3D Painter-style layer-based texture painting inside Blender.
Friday, August 15th, 2025
Foundry releases Mari 7.1
Now available: 3D texture painting software gets new 2D painting mode for editing source images or creating custom decals.
Monday, December 9th, 2024
Foundry releases Mari 7.0
3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes
Monday, December 4th, 2023
Download Marmoset's free materials for Toolbag 4
Library Drop 05 makes over 200 new materials and textures available for the real-time rendering software, plus a new set of Smart Masks.
Sunday, November 12th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.1
Texture painting app gets support for ICC colour profiles, physical size in materials, new texture bakers.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.1
Material-authoring software gets USD import and export, new nodes to create and render 3D textures.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Adobe ships Substance 3D Painter 7.4
3D texture painting app to get OpenColorIO 2 colour management for VFX pipelines.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
Allegorithmic unveils Substance Painter 2017.4
Texture painting app gets support for layer instancing, live link to UE4 and 20 new procedural materials.
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
Sites to bookmark: the Texturepilot texture library
Browse over 100,000 images tailored to games and VFX at this excellent, straighforward online library.
Thursday, June 13th, 2013
Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 2.0
Normal mapping toolkit gets new image-editing controls, faster algorithms, 15 built-in grunge maps.
Thursday, December 6th, 2012