Blender add-on mimics the PxrDisney shader in Cycles
Updated: Onelvxe Studios' add-on mimics RenderMan's 'ubershader' in Blender. Now a paid-for product as well as a free beta.
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
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See more details of the new features in Modo 10.0v1
Update will improve look dev and asset export to UE4 and Unity 5, streamline baking, enhance vertex normal editing.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
Download Pablander’s free ZBrush Multi-Eye shader
Create customisable CG eyes with colour and highlights with Pablo Munoz Gomez's cool ZBrush shader.
Thursday, January 7th, 2016
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.7
Texture painting software gets updated brush engine, plus new Dota 2, car paint and velvet shaders.
Friday, December 18th, 2015
DGDM ships SLiB | Browser and SLiB | Browser Pro 1.0
Maya plugins for browsing shaders get new search and favourites options. Base edition is still free.
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
Get free Maya shader library building tool BlissLib
Download TD Einar Gabbassov's free framework for building custom libraries of Maya, mental ray and RenderMan shaders.
Friday, November 20th, 2015
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.10
Update optimises rendering for VR and shading for mobile devices, adds support for Visual Studio 2015.
Friday, November 13th, 2015
Download DGDM's free Maya SLiB | Browser plugin
Updated: Handy add-on offers a simple way to browse shaders. New Pro edition lets you export them, too.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
Pixar launches RenderMan for Houdini
New bridge plugin ships out of the box with Houdini 15, and supports RenderMan's advanced features.
Friday, October 16th, 2015
Get 20 free physically based RenderMan material presets
Updated: get LollipopShaders' free multi-purpose presets for RenderMan's PxrDisney material.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
Autodesk launches Stingray game engine
New engine to ship on 19 August from $30/month, with suite of supporting middleware. Free to Maya LT users.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2015
Allegorithmic announces Substance Share
New online platform will let game artists share their custom Substances, meshes and shaders.
Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
Pixar ships RenderMan 20
Latest update adds Denoise option for raytraced renders, new Visualizer view for debugging complex scenes.
Thursday, July 9th, 2015