Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.5 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into WebGL apps relaxes restrictions on physical materials; adds anisotropic texture filtering.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
PBR
Download 50 free 8K PBR textures from Texture Haven
New site provides high-resolution scanned textures of environment materials under a CC0 licence.
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Author PBR materials in your browser with Material-Z.com
Now officially live. Create texture maps and GLSL shader code with Braindistrict's neat online service.
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Allegorithmic updates Substance Source library
Updated: Online library hosts 1,000+ materials in Substance format, designed for PBR workflows. Download some for free.
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
Quixel releases Quixel Mixer 1.0 in beta
Quixel's intuitive tool for blending scanned materials now out in beta. Free to Megascans subscribers.
Friday, May 18th, 2018
Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.04
Now available: big update to the real-time toolkit adds scores of new features for rendering, texture baking and the Marmoset Viewer.
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
AMD ships Radeon ProRender plugins for macOS
Free GPU-based renderer available for Blender and Maya on Macs. Now supports volumetrics, too.
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Download 90+ free PBR textures from CC0 Textures
Get free tileable metal, concrete, wood and fabric textures at up to 8K resolution. Commercial use.
Sunday, April 8th, 2018
Quixel announces updates to NDO, DDO and 3DO
New versions of Quixel Suite tools to improve integration with Photoshop, add support for macOS.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.0
Newly updated tool coverts Blender scenes to interactive 3D web applications, complete with Cycles-compatible PBR materials.
Monday, February 26th, 2018
Facebook introduces glTF 2.0 support for 'richer 3D posts'
Posts now display 3D models interactively, with PBR materials, You can export directly from Modo.
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
Godot team ships Godot 3.0
Big update to the open-source game engine to add new PBR renderer, new audio engine, visual scripting, and early VR support.
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
See the 10 hottest new features due in Blender in 2018
Read the Blender Foundation's pick of the top dev projects, from the Eevee PBR viewport renderer to 'Animation 2020'.
Thursday, January 4th, 2018