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PBR

The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

Update adds hardware-accelerated rendering on Nvidia RTX GPUs, and improves material editing workflow.

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

Download sets of texture maps for bricks, concrete, wood and plaster at 4,096 x 4,096px resolution.

Sunday, February 9th, 2020

Get architectural textures at up to 4,096 x 4,096px resolution from online resource library Texture Fun. For commercial use.

Sunday, February 2nd, 2020

Godot 3.2 ships

Leading open-source game engine gets revamped shader editor, glTF 2.0 and FBX import, and a new pseudo-3D system for 2D games.

Thursday, January 30th, 2020

Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out.

Sunday, January 26th, 2020

Download two new procedural materials of the controls and panelling of an old steam train for free.

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020

Neat ultra-lightweight tool creates low-poly games assets, complete with automated character rigs.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020

Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Use the entire Megascans library for free in Unreal Engine via the newly rewritten, C++ based UE4 plugin for Quixel's asset manager.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019

Vue gets automated real-world terrain data import; PlantFactory gets 3ds Max and Maya plugins.

Friday, December 13th, 2019

The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.

Thursday, November 21st, 2019

AI-driven plugin for Character Creator generates 3D models of human heads from single source photos, with PBR texture maps.

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019