Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 5
Now shipping. Texturing app gets new procedural tools, better baking. Income cap relaxed on Indie licence.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
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Video: Geomerics' new Enlighten 3 lighting system
See the tech behind Unity 5's new real-time global illumination in action in this neat new demo video.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
Unity launches new free Unity 5 Personal Edition
Artists earning under $100,000/year now get all the features of Unity 5. Pro users get extra cloud tools.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
Unity Technologies releases Unity 5
Now shipping: leading game engine gets real-time GI, physically based shading, new audio-editing tools.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
Autodesk announces Maya LT 2016
Indie-game-focused version of Maya to get new brush-based sculpting and UV workflows, PBR shading.
Monday, March 2nd, 2015
FXhome updates HitFilm 3 Pro
Updated: Latest free update adds new Star Wars-style title crawl and support for DaVinci Resolve 11.
Monday, March 2nd, 2015
AXYZ design releases an(i)ma 1.7.1
Updated: Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D now also available for Mac. Price down, too.
Friday, February 27th, 2015
Corona Renderer 1.0 ships
Long-awaited commercial release of 3ds Max renderer adds interactive rendering, SSS, big speed boosts.
Thursday, February 26th, 2015
Unreal Engine 4.7 ships
Engine now publishes games in HTML5 format to play in a browser; better foliage rendering options.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
iPi Soft ships iPi Motion Capture 3.0 product line
Updated: markerless mocap system now captures up to three actors from 4 Kinects or 16 PlayStation Eyes.
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
Allegorithmic unveils Substance Painter 1.3
Games texturing tool to get new Smart Materials system, texture bakers, improved viewport display.
Friday, February 20th, 2015
Mainframe North releases Mash 3.3 for Maya
Set of 27 handy motion graphics nodes now available on Linux as well as Windows and Mac OS X.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
LuxRender 1.4 ships
Free physically based renderer moves to new core architecture; renders 'at least two times faster'.
Monday, February 9th, 2015