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PhysX

Free game engine gets new cloth simulation system for clothing and environment assets, plus better character animation performance.

Monday, February 24th, 2020

Unity 2019.3 ships

Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

Game engine gets a new automated system for bundling assets for release with a game, plus new texture debugging features.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2019

Game engine gets new automated secondary animation system, support for PhysX 4.1, updates to the visual programming system.

Tuesday, September 17th, 2019

Game engine gets new PhysX Force Region component, plus the option to interrupt one character animation transition with another.

Friday, August 2nd, 2019

Unity 2019.2 ships

Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Sizeable update to the game engine extends support for PhysX, and adds new animation and texture-processing functionality.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

3ds Max demolition plugin's neat new interactive workflow removes the need to pre-shatter meshes.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

Real-time physics system now available under a 3-clause BSD licence on PCs and mobile devices.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

Big update to hair plugin adds new physics system, clumping controls, option to generate woven fabrics.

Monday, June 11th, 2018

Free game engine gets experimental support for Nvidia's PhysX real-time physics system, more integrated cloud functionality.

Monday, March 26th, 2018

Real-time animation tool gets particle add-on based on tech for Substance Painter particle brushes.

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

Now officially released. Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, new Vulkan renderer, and terrain blending.

Thursday, September 21st, 2017