Unity unveils its 2025 product roadmap
Features due in Unity this year include in-editor LOD generation, swappable physics backends, and more generative AI tools.
Thursday, March 20th, 2025
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Unity previews its roadmap for Unity 6.1 and beyond
Updated: See the new tools due in the game engine in 2025, including updates to shading, rendering, animation and world building.
Thursday, September 26th, 2024
Autodesk adds MaterialX support to USD for 3ds Max 0.5
Update to the USD integration plugin makes it possible to author, import or export MaterialX materials from 3ds Max.
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
Discover 5 key features for CG artists in Unity 2022.2
See the key changes to the game engine, like the new water system and dynamic volumetric clouds.
Friday, December 9th, 2022
Discover 10 key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.2
Read our pick of the new features in the game engine, from ray traced reflections to real-time compositing.
Monday, December 21st, 2020
Watch The Heretic, Unity's beautiful new CG short
See the latest Unity demo short, showcasing advances in real-time shading for hair, eyes and cloth.
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
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
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.2
Lots of features, including a new physical camera model, but the GPU lightmapper hasn't made it.
Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Unity 2018.1 is now shipping. Check out the highlights here
It's a huge update, so get up to speed faster with our run-down of the key features for CG artists.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
Unity Technologies reveals Unity 2018 product roadmap
See the new graphics features due in Unity 2018.1 to 2018.3, from new materials and animation options to the GPU lightmapper.
Friday, March 23rd, 2018