Physical Open Waters generates oceans in Blender in real time
Physical Addons' promising plugin generates photorealistic animated ocean surfaces, and is lightweight enough to run on a laptop.
Thursday, November 23rd, 2023
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Pixelmachine releases TopoGun 3
Now officially shipping after three years in beta: pioneering standalone retopology tool gets its first major update in over a decade.
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
Download Ten24's free hi-res 3D scan of a female human head
Get a free 3D scan of a female head as FBX, OBJ, ZBrush and Blender files, with 8K PBR textures, plus 26 free makeup and dirt overlays.
Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.2
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets
Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Maya Update 1
Maya edition of the renderer gets Chaos Scatter, Intel's Open PGL, updates to USD and V-Ray GPU.
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
Poly lets you generate 8K PBR textures from text prompts
AI-based online service can also tile or upscale existing textures, or create missing PBR texture maps.
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
Reallusion releases Character Creator 4.2
Character-creation tool gets long-awaited dynamic wrinkle system, better MetaHuman compatibility.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
These free AI add-ons create PBR materials inside Blender
Use Dream Textures, DeepBump and DT2DB Bridge to create PBR materials in Blender 'in one click'
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.3
Major update adds USD support to the 3D texture painting software, and revamps baking workflow.
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Pablo Dobarro releases CozyBlanket 2.0
Easy-to-use iPad retopology app now also supports UV unwrapping, UV packing and texture baking.
Monday, November 7th, 2022
Download over 1,350 free PBR texture sets from LotPixel
Free scan-based textures of interior and exterior materials at up to 8K resolution. For commercial use.
Sunday, October 30th, 2022
Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 5 R9
Check out the new features in this major update to the bonus tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting app.
Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Material Maker 1.0 is out
Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.
Sunday, July 24th, 2022