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lightmap baking

Discover five key new features in the open-source game engine, including updates to shading, lighting, animation and physics.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025

Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

Discover great seasonal discounts on 3D assets, apps and software, including offers still valid until the end of December.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 28th, 2022

Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.

Monday, January 31st, 2022

Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

But you can test an early prototype of the open-source game engine's new in-browser editor right now.

Monday, June 1st, 2020

New free editions of the renderer for Unreal Engine and Blender 2.80 available as early public previews.

Tuesday, July 30th, 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

New integration promises UE4 users GPU-based light field baking and support for ORBX scenes.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

Powerful GPU-based renderer now available for viewport and offline renders in Unity. Free on one GPU.

Monday, December 18th, 2017

Sizeable update to the game engine now available in beta, along with its new VR editing toolset.

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

See all the new features due in Unity 5.6 and beyond - including a free integration of OctaneRender.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016