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Lumberyard

Sizeable update to the game engine extends support for PhysX, and adds new animation and texture-processing functionality.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Tree-creation software gets new toolset for blending meshes captured via photogrammetry into its procedurally generated trees.

Thursday, January 17th, 2019

Update to free game engine improves workflow in the Asset Browser and Entity Outliner, particularly if working with slices.

Thursday, December 20th, 2018

Free game engine gets new Simple Motion component for assigning motion clips to characters, plus support for MikkT tangent space.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Free game engine gets readymade components for generating roads and rivers, new pose blending options in the animation editor.

Monday, July 30th, 2018

Free game engine gets support for morph targets, new wind and force volumes, volumetric cloud system, visual scripting improvements.

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018

But don't get too excited: it's for reference only, not modification, and it's the C# source, not the C++.

Thursday, March 29th, 2018

Free game engine gets experimental support for Nvidia's PhysX real-time physics system, more integrated cloud functionality.

Monday, March 26th, 2018

Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest.

Sunday, December 24th, 2017

Update to the tree-generation tool adds PBR support; new modelling, animation and export options. Price of a perpetual licence down $500.

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

Full C++ source code of the AAA game engine to be made available in a new public GitHub repository.

Friday, August 18th, 2017

We round up over 30 of the key new tools to be announced at the show, from full 3D packages to plugins.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016

Big update to free AAA game engine adds Substance integration, mobile support - and a proper FBX importer.

Thursday, March 17th, 2016