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normal mapping

Updated, now shipping: Games texturing toolkit gets powerful 3D painting and map baking options. See the new features in action here.

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Toolkit for turning source images into games texture maps gets new PBR shaders, new emissive and opacity outputs.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2015

Updated: new versions of NDO and DDO now officially out of beta. New batch options and 16K support too.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

Games texture map creation tool gets support for PBR workflow. Neat shadow-removal and tiling options.

Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

Normal mapping toolkit gets new image-editing controls, faster algorithms, 15 built-in grunge maps.

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Argentum Studio's in-house tool gives access to Unreal Engine 5's internal settings to improve the look of hair and fur in your renders.

Tuesday, January 14th, 2025

Discover how to create story-rich environment concept art for games and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Monday, January 13th, 2025

Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.

Sunday, January 12th, 2025

Updated: Version 2.6 of the facial and full-body rig builder for games, animation and VFX characters comes with this free bird rig.

Friday, January 10th, 2025

Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3D Gaussian Splats can now play back sequences of PLY files.

Thursday, January 9th, 2025

Check out the new features in the virtual reality modeling software, including improvements to file export and primitives workflow.

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025