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PBR

Updated: Sparseal's promising texture painting app is now available for Apple Silicon Macs, as well as Windows machines and iPads.

Sunday, May 17th, 2026

See the new features in the free alternative to Substance 3D Designer, including a Controlled Variations system for material variants.

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including the option to save entire groups of tools as reusable presets.

Monday, March 16th, 2026

Sparseal's $20 iPad app includes features usually only found in more expensive desktop software, like simultaneous multichannel painting.

Thursday, February 26th, 2026

Quixel Mixer 2023.1 makes it possible to run the material-authoring software offline indefinitely, unlike previous versions.

Friday, February 20th, 2026

Vampawn Entertainment's Medieval Modular Wall Pack is normally sold for $49.99. Blender, UE5, FBX, GLB and OBJ formats. Commercial use.

Tuesday, February 10th, 2026

Games artist Grzegorz Baran's meticulously researched PBR Color Reference list is an vital source for look dev and shading artists.

Monday, January 26th, 2026

See the new features in the open-source alternative to Substance 3D Designer, including DDS support and seven new SDF nodes.

Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

Get scan-based PBR texture sets at up to 8K resolution, and import them directly into Blender with the new LotPixel download manager.

Sunday, January 18th, 2026

Check out the new features in this major update to the GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool and its new lightweight edition.

Thursday, January 15th, 2026

Get 3D scans created in Kiri Engine, retopologized and converted to LODs. Blender and FBX format with 4K PBR textures, CC0 license.

Wednesday, December 24th, 2025

New video-to-PBR AI model lets artists relight video footage without manual 3D reconstruction. Can now be run offline, as well as in the cloud.

Friday, November 7th, 2025

Check out the latest features in the architectural modeling software, including new collaboration options and updates to PBR materials.

Thursday, October 9th, 2025