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Big free update to the LightWave modelling toolkit adds new tools for UV mapping NURBS surfaces and for converting quads to NURBS.

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019

Free-in-beta material-authoring tool gets new Scatter modifier, updated Pattern modifer, layer blending modes and undo/redo system.

Monday, July 22nd, 2019

Master industry-standard material authoring workflows with veteran games artist Josh Lynch's new Gnomon tutorial.

Saturday, July 6th, 2019

Procedural city generation software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, improved integration with Houdini and Unreal Studio.

Thursday, May 16th, 2019

Big update adds parametric authoring and image-to-PBR-material conversion to the scan blending tool, now in free beta.

Friday, March 15th, 2019

Hotly tipped next-gen terrain design tool gets official release. The Community edition is free, and licensed for commercial work.

Tuesday, February 26th, 2019

New version of the tree-creation tech lets users generate variant trees and animation inside Clarisse.

Thursday, January 17th, 2019

Popular hair and fur plugin gets new physics, clumping and braiding toolsets, native support for Arnold.

Tuesday, January 8th, 2019

Updated: meet crazy new creatures created with the Houdini tech demo weekly on the @Kozinarium Twitter feed.

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

Promising virtual reality design tool gets support for groups, surface patches and orthographic views.

Friday, September 7th, 2018

Powerful procedural modelling plugin for LightWave gets new toolsets for automatically generating windows and railings.

Monday, June 18th, 2018

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

Monday, June 11th, 2018

Updated: Online library hosts 1,000+ materials in Substance format, designed for PBR workflows. Download some for free.

Thursday, June 7th, 2018