Act-3D releases Lumion 7.5
Free update to the real-time visualisation tool adds 52 new stock interior materials, better support for non-square textures.
Monday, July 10th, 2017
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Blend4Web 17.06 adds augmented reality support
Tool for converting Blender scenes into interactive web apps now creates AR as well as VR content.
Friday, July 7th, 2017
PipelineFX releases Qube! 6.10
Renderfarm manager's new online analytics reports let render wranglers monitor site stress and system load on a per-minute basis.
Thursday, July 6th, 2017
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 3.3
Image-based modelling software gets new system for generating crisper, more detailed meshes. Now with new filtering options.
Tuesday, July 4th, 2017
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 2017.1
Material authoring app gets new skew correction masks when baking maps, improved HBAO.
Friday, June 30th, 2017
Foundry ships Modo 11.1
Videos: Update adds live bridge to Unreal Engine, better modelling and UV packing tools, option to bake object space normal maps.
Friday, June 30th, 2017
Golaem ships Golaem 6
Maya crowd animation tool gets new options for creating custom AI, support for traffic simulation, plus new dynamic emission system.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
AMD updates Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max, Maya
Free GPU-based renderer now supports interactive viewport rendering and V-Ray materials.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
Sneak peek: Unity 2017.1's powerful new cinematics tools
Watch 30 minutes of footage of the Timeline editor, Cinemachine 2.0 procedural camera system, and 16K video recorder.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017
Corel ships Painter 2018
Natural-media painting package gets new 2.5D paint system, built-in texture-synthesis system, and better cloning and selection tools.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
Basefount ships Miarmy 5.5
Simulate large scenes up to 20x faster with the Maya crowd tool's new intelligent instancing system. Redshift support also now added.
Friday, June 23rd, 2017
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2017.1
3D texture painting software gets support for HBAO, new live edge wear system, 230 new alphas.
Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
Reallusion ships iClone 7
Now shipping: Big update to 3D character animation software adds new morph animation toolset, PBR viewport, HDRI baking, real-time GI.
Wednesday, June 21st, 2017