Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.4 in public beta
Update promises "enhanced visuals" plus GPU instancing, better multicore rendering and VR support.
Thursday, March 17th, 2016
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Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2
3D painting tool gets Iray renderer integrated inside, new Clone and Smudge tools, new Linux edition.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
Crytek releases CryEngine V for free
AAA game engine now available on a 'pay what you want basis'; gets new C# API and particle system, revamped renderer.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
Autodesk ships Stingray 1.2
Update to game engine adds new animation workflows, multicore compilation, HTC Vive support.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016
Basefount Technology unveils Miarmy 4.5
Maya crowd simulation tool to get new jump system for actors, plus tech developed for use on Ant-Man.
Monday, March 14th, 2016
Faceware unveils new markerless mocap solutions
Updates due to firm's Analyzer and Retargeter facial mocap software, along with a new free PLE edition.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
See more details of the new features in Modo 10.0v1
Update will improve look dev and asset export to UE4 and Unity 5, streamline baking, enhance vertex normal editing.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
The Foundry announces Modo 10 Series
Modo 10.0v1 due out in Q2, and 'opens new doors' for games and VR. Modo 10.1 and 10.2 to follow.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.3 for Maya
Maya edition of the renderer gets feature parity with 3ds Max; speed boosts of 20-50% on 'most scenes'.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Lightmap ships HDR Light Studio 5.3
Real-time lighting tool now lets users add area lights to a scene by 'painting' highlights onto surfaces.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Fabric Software releases Fabric Engine 2.1
Update extends tools dev platform's Canvas visual programming system. Long-awaited Modo plugin now officially in beta.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Render Legion previews Corona 1.4 for 3ds Max
Next version of renderer to add adaptive image sampling, new denoising system. Cinema 4D version due this year.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Golaem releases Golaem 5.0
New Layout tool lets users edit timing or visual properties of crowd sims without re-running the simulation.
Friday, February 19th, 2016