Check out the new features in Unreal Engine 4.21
Highlights include updates to the Niagara FX and animation tools, and a new 'Pixel Streaming' system.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
new features
Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.0
Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
Act-3D releases Lumion 9.0
Real-time visualisation tool gets new toolsets for sky lighting, rain, grass and fur in the Pro edition; better workflow in the base edition.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.12 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulator gets support for instancing sims, plus volumetric rendering on the GPU via V-Ray Next for Maya.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 8
3D clothing design software gets handy new brush-based sculpting, 3D sewing and remeshing tools.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
Red Giant adds new fluids engine to Trapcode Suite 15
After Effects tool suite's Particular and Form plugins get eyecatching new gaseous fluids capabilities.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Maya
Now shipping: see videos of the new GPU rendering features and the new hair and toon shaders.
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Sneak peeks: Unity's Visual Effect Graph and CineCast
See Unity's new framework for authoring complex GPU-driven FX and nifty 'synthetic director' system.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4
Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.2.1
Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 7.3
Sub-$100 Mac-only 3D software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, new dark UI theme.
Friday, October 19th, 2018
thinkingParticles 6.7 ships
Big update to the 3ds Max particle plugin's fluid simulation tools adds new options for generating waves, water levels and diffusion effects.
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.0
Designer-friendly 3D software gets support for layered decals, FBX and STL import, interactive web export for design reviews and AR.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018