Download over 500 free 4K PBR texture sets
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
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Get free procedural texture generator Material Maker
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
Radeon ProRender for Blender gets 'full spectrum rendering'
Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
Reallusion ships Headshot 1.0
AI-driven plugin for Character Creator generates 3D models of human heads from single source photos, with PBR texture maps.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 4.2
Texture map generation tool gets new low-cost student and personal licences for non-commercial work.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
e-on software shakes up Vue and PlantFactory
Newly updated digital nature tools available as rental-only product bundles, not individual purchases.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Free tool Materialize converts photos to PBR materials
Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.05
Real-time rendering toolkit gets new texture baking features, better antialiasing of texture maps, plus two new microsurface shaders.
Saturday, September 29th, 2018
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
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
Download over 400 free Cinema 4D materials
Online library C4D Center updates its set of free .c4d materials. Register on the site for hundreds more free resources.
Sunday, November 12th, 2017
Reallusion releases Character Creator 2.0
Free(ish) tool for creating rigged 3D human characters gets support for PBR shading, image-based lighting.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Mankua Software releases PixaFlux in free open beta
New node-based image editor lets users design normal maps and preview the result in a PBR viewport.
Monday, February 15th, 2016