Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.16
Free game engine gets new Simple Motion component for assigning motion clips to characters, plus support for MikkT tangent space.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
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Foundry ships Modo 12.2
Update adds render denoising, Workbenches system for custom UI layouts, more improvements to modelling, UVs and tech animation.
Friday, November 16th, 2018
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 15.2
Free update extends support for OpenFX plugins in the new Fusion toolset, adds Beauty plugin for smoothing skin.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2019
Mocha Pro now has 360° tracking tool Mocha VR; Continuum gets 2D particle system particleIllusion.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Quixel ships Quixel Mixer 2018.2
Intuitive app for blending scanned materials gets new Eye Dropper tool, better straight line painting.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Xsens releases MVN Animate 2019.2
Software for Xsens inertial mocap suits gets support for remote on-body recording, satellite positioning.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal
New app converts scenes created in other editions of V-Ray for use in UE4, also baking out V-Ray lights.
Friday, November 9th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.21
Real-time visualisation platform gets support for Revit files, new shared design review template.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
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
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