Download Unity Labs' free texture de-lighting tool
Neat Unity add-on removes baked-in lighting from textures generated using photogrammetry software.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2017
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Insydium releases X-Particles 3
Updated, now shipping: Cinema 4D particle tool gets new FLIP fluid solver, particle-based dynamics.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015
3d-io releases Flatiron 2.0 for 3ds Max
Games texture-baking plugin now supports animated textures; outputs multiple render elements in one pass.
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
IKinema releases IKinema Action 3 for Maya
Update to mocap streaming and data-editing plugin adds automatic fixes for jitter and foot slippage.
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
Damien Bataille releases DeeX VRay Arsenal 1.5
Updated: VFX Lighting TD's new plugin speeds up common tasks for rendering Maya scenes in V-Ray.
Friday, January 24th, 2014
3rd Powers ships five new LightWave plugins
Cage Deformer, Lattice Deformer, Meta Mesh, Boolean Tool and Heat Shrink Plus manipulate complex geometry in real time.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013
Side Effects launches Houdini Engine plugins for Maya, Unity
Free experimental versions of the plugins let other apps import Houdini Digital Assets in editable form.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
Eloi Andaluz releases Demolition Master 1.6
3ds Max destruction plugin adds support for proxies, Bullet physics. The demo video is a lot of fun, too.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Motiva releases Exposure Control plugin for V-Ray
Handy free plugin lets 3ds Max users simulate real-life film stocks and bleach bypass effects.
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
Mir Vadim ships RayFire 1.62 for 3ds Max
And the demos of the destruction plugin's new voxelisation and clustering tools are pure eye candy.
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
Milan Suk releases BulletSOP 2.0 for Houdini
New free tool creates ultra-complex rigid-body simulations in Houdini using the Bullet physics toolset.
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
Joe Alter releases LipService 6.5 for Maya
Updated with new video: sculpting and rigging toolset gets muscle system similar to Weta's Tissue.
Friday, May 31st, 2013
Sitni Sati ships FumeFX for Maya
Leading gaseous fluid simulator now available for Maya as well as Max. Runs on Windows and Linux.
Monday, May 27th, 2013