Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.5 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into WebGL apps relaxes restrictions on physical materials; adds anisotropic texture filtering.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
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Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.20
UE4-based visualisation platform gets iterative import workflow, new SketchUp exporter, MDL support.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20
Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.0
Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.
Friday, July 20th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2018.2
Material authoring tool gets neat new 'Shape Splatter' system, plus initial release of new Python API.
Friday, July 20th, 2018
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 4.0
Big update to image-based modelling tool improves speed and accuracy of mesh generation, adds new camera calibration manger.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018
Foundry ships Nuke 11.2, NukeX 11.2, Nuke Studio 11.2
Workflow-focused update revamps the Tab menu; adds GPU support and mask input for Smart Vectors.
Tuesday, July 17th, 2018
Pixologic ships ZBrushCore 2018
Free update to ZBrush's cut-down edition adds new VDM brushes, Gizmo3D deformers and 3D text.
Friday, July 13th, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.2
Lots of features, including a new physical camera model, but the GPU lightmapper hasn't made it.
Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Computerinsel releases PhotoLine 21
Sub-$100 image-editing tool gets support for scripting, new lens correction filter, auto-save system.
Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Foundry ships Flix 5.4
Pro 'story development' tool gets new options when drawing storyboard panels in Photoshop and publishing to Premiere Pro.
Monday, July 9th, 2018
iToo Software releases RailClone 3.2 for 3ds Max
Parametric modelling plugin gets support for V-Ray Next and Arnold; new food products in asset library.
Thursday, July 5th, 2018
Oculus ships Medium 2.0
VR modelling tool gets new Elastic mode for sculpting, support for grid and angle snapping, fewer limits on layers, undo operations and lights.
Monday, July 2nd, 2018