InstaMAT Studio is now available
Promising new app combines 3D texture painting, node-based material authoring and AI features. Free if you earn under $100k/year.
Thursday, January 25th, 2024
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D
Long-awaited rewrite of the C4D renderer adds built-in compositing and new GPU rendering features.
Friday, December 11th, 2020
Quixel ships Bridge 2020.4
Check out the latest workflow improvements in Quixel's free tool for exporting Megascans assets to DCC apps and game engines.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
Get Quixel's free Megascans plugin for Unreal Engine
Version 6.3 of the free plugin adds neat new vertex blend material, better LOD export for 3D plants.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
Watch Epic Games' amazing new Unreal Engine 5 demo
See the gorgeous Lumen in the Land of Nanite UE5 demo, running in real time on a PlayStation 5.
Thursday, May 14th, 2020
Epic Games unveils Unreal Engine 5
Amazing next-gen update to the game engine promises dynamic GI - and the end of polygon budgets.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2.1
Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Quixel ships Bridge 2019.5
Use the entire Megascans library for free in Unreal Engine via the newly rewritten, C++ based UE4 plugin for Quixel's asset manager.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
Adobe unveils Substance Designer 2019.3
Material-authoring software to get new colour management tools, new curvature baker, and UX updates.
Thursday, December 19th, 2019
Epic Games acquires Quixel
All 10,000-plus Megascans assets to be made free to Unreal Engine users; Quixel Mixer and Bridge to be released free for everyone.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Check out neat retopology tool QuadRemesher
Updated: now available for Blender. Exoside's new tool turns messy models into clean all-quad meshes.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
Quixel supports the MDL material format in Megascans
Popular library of real-world scan data adopts the cross-application material format supported in V-Ray and Unreal Studio.
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
Download 56 free PBR fabric materials for Unreal Engine
Get games artist Ronan Mahon's free set of 4K PBR materials based on 3D scans of real-world fabrics.
Monday, March 4th, 2019