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Update to texture-painting tool adds brush opacity, LUT-based colour management, option to bake 8K textures.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017

Updated: Handy free plugin lets PS load or save multi-layer EXR files. Now supports batch processing.

Tuesday, February 21st, 2017

Videos: New virtual reality painting and sculpting tools come free with the new Oculus Touch controller.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2016

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

Wednesday, September 9th, 2015

Now officially released: update adds optional Hotbox-style pie menus, improved texture-painting system.

Monday, October 6th, 2014

See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.

Friday, April 25th, 2025

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025