Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2018.3
Material authoring software gets PBR Render node, faster texture baking on Nvidia's new RTX GPUs.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
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cebas ships finalRender Drop 2
Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Nevercenter ships Silo 2.5.6
Lightweight subdivision surface modelling tool gets GoZ support for exchanging models with ZBrush.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 4 R2
Popular suite of 250+ add-on tools for Foundry's 3D painting software now updated to support Mari 4.x.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Shotgun Software ships Shotgun 8
Major update to the production tracking system introduces new 'cloud-connected desktop app' Shotgun Create.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 4.3
Photogrammetry app gets 'knife cut' tool for cleaning up meshes; neat option to generate blueprints automatically for 3D buildings.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Abvent releases Twinmotion 2019 v2
Update to real-time visualisation tool integrates BIMobject's online library of free 3D furniture models.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
e-on software shakes up Vue and PlantFactory
Newly updated digital nature tools available as rental-only product bundles, not individual purchases.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Nvidia open-sources PhysX, unveils PhysX SDK 4.0
Real-time physics system now available under a 3-clause BSD licence on PCs and mobile devices.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Wings 3D developers release Wings 3D 2.2
Veteran open-source subdivision modelling tool gets support for PBR materials, new Booleans system.
Monday, December 3rd, 2018
Autodesk ships Maya 2018.5 and Maya LT 2018.5
Online changelog suggests that they're both just bugfixes on the way to Maya and Maya LT 2019.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 1
Update improves IPR performance in the 3ds Max renderer, and adds support for GPU bucket rendering.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
Blender 2.80 is now in beta. See the top 5 features here
Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.
Friday, November 30th, 2018