Unity scraps controversial Runtime Fee but raises prices
Cost of Unity Pro subscriptions to rise by 8% next year, and Unity Enterprise by 25%. Free Unity Personal subscriptions unaffected.
Friday, September 13th, 2024
licensing change
Chaos ends perpetual licenses of crowd animation tool anima
Perpetual anima Pro licenses and sales of individual metropoly 3D stock characters discontinued in favor of anima All subscriptions.
Friday, August 2nd, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.4
Material-authoring app gets new generative AI features for creating textures or patterns from text prompts and refererence images.
Friday, May 24th, 2024
RealityCapture is now free to indie artists and studios
Popular photogrammetry software is now free to users with revenue under $1 million/year. Check out the other changes in RealityCapture 1.4.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Twinmotion is now free to indie artists and studios
Real-time visualization tool is free for commercial use to anyone earning under $1 million/year. See what else is new in Twinmotion 2023.2.4.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2024.1
Big update to the AI-assisted animation software adds animation retargeting and 'unbaking' systems, plus new pricing model
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.3
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new Texture Generators to add procedural noise to materials. Perpetual licenses discontinued.
Friday, January 26th, 2024
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.7
Update makes the full Professional edition of the lanscape generator available to indie artists for just $199. Check out the new features here.
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
Unity CEO John Riccitiello to 'retire', effective immediately
Announcement follows controversial recent pricing and licensing changes for the Unity game engine.,
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.5
Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
Insydium ships Fused 2023.3
Major update to the Cinema 4D plugins includes new versions of X-Particles, NeXus, plant generator Taiao and terrain tool TerraformFX.
Wednesday, July 5th, 2023
Act-3D ships Lumion 2023.0
Major update to the visualisation tool adds support for real-time ray tracing on AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Now available subscription-only.
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
Nuke to go subscription-only
Sales of perpetual licences of Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio and Hiero to end on 31 December. Annual subscriptions introduced.
Wednesday, January 11th, 2023