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Smart Material

Megascans to get new 'modular' assets and drone scans; Mixer to get new tools for authoring stylised, painterly materials.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020

New stable build of the sculpting and painting tool adds support for Megascans materials; updates the Cloth tool and Blender live link.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, July 26th, 2019

Discover how to texture this gorgeously grimy hot rod in James Schauf's new Gnomon tutorial.

Saturday, November 3rd, 2018

New texturing crash course from Naughty Dog's Christophe Desse aims to take you from 'zero to hero'.

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018

See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.

Friday, April 25th, 2025

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025