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Machina Fractals: Essence, Machina Fractals: Mecha and new plugin Machina Fractals: Ultima create amazing real-time 3D forms.

Thursday, August 8th, 2024

Update overhauls the VR sculpting software's surfacing toolset, and adds initial support for PBR materials and image-based lighting.

Wednesday, December 6th, 2023

Updated: Neat add-on streamlines baking PBR textures inside Blender. Now supports thickness maps.

Sunday, September 10th, 2023

Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023

AI-based online service can also tile or upscale existing textures, or create missing PBR texture maps.

Thursday, May 4th, 2023

Use Dream Textures, DeepBump and DT2DB Bridge to create PBR materials in Blender 'in one click'

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from path guiding in Cycles to a hidden bonus for motion designers.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Free assets include this modular kit of 3D parts for medieval castles. FBX format, 8K PBR textures, commercial use.

Sunday, February 13th, 2022

Get free rigged 3D characters and mocap moves from Reallusion's ActorCore library. FBX format, for commercial use.

Monday, January 24th, 2022

iPad sketching app now lets users import and paint directly onto 3D models in OBJ or USDZ format.

Monday, November 1st, 2021

GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.

Friday, October 29th, 2021

Neat Maya and Houdini add-on lets you edit ultra-complex lighting set-ups interactively in the viewport.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

Real-time 3D file format gets new extensions for PBR material properties like index of refraction.

Wednesday, July 14th, 2021