Chaos unveils Project Eclipse
New product for 'rapid arch viz storytelling' will work with V-Ray and Enscape, and is due later this year. Here's what we know about it so far.
Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
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Baga Grove lets you 'draw' plants into your Blender scenes
Neat plugin lets users draw outlines in the viewport and have them filled automatically with naturally randomized sets of 3D plants.
Monday, February 19th, 2024
PhyX Drag brings physics-based object placement to Blender
New $10 add-on brings simple Houdini-style physics-based scene layout workflows to the open-source 3D software.
Thursday, December 28th, 2023
Polygonflow releases Dash 1.4 in early access
Neat tool to simplify world building in Unreal Engine 5 gets new Physics Paint system, PBR texture packing. Perpetual licenses now available.
Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
Sneak peek: Houdini 20
See the new features due in the next major version of Houdini, including updates to animation and simulation and the Karma renderer.
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
J Cube releases Multiverse | USD 8.2 for Maya
New features in the USD-native layout and look dev app include shader network transfer to Katana.
Monday, July 24th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 2.1
Scene layout and rendering tool's new AI-based GPU denoiser cuts rendering times by 'up to 99%'.
Friday, June 23rd, 2023
Get Antoine Bagattini's free Blender add-on BagaPie V10
Popular modifier gets new tool to package your Geometry Nodes set-ups into custom Blender add-ons.
Saturday, April 29th, 2023
Isotropix has discontinued Clarisse
Updated: Emails sent to users say that sales and development of the layout & look dev tool have ended.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
RandoMixer randomises your 3ds Max scenes
Neat new plugin quickly generates variant looks for 3D models, 3D scenes - or even 3D characters.
Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
Foundry ships Modo 16.1
Check out the new features in the 3D modelling and rendering software, including interesting new workflows for applying decals.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
Spline Dynamics releases Scatter Tools for 3ds Max
Neat new set dressing plugin can automatically add ornaments and books to the furniture in a scene.
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 2.0
Scene layout and rendering app gets presets for turntable renders, USD export and CAD file import.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023