Check out xStudio, DNEG's open-source playback tool
Updated: Epic Games has ported the high-performance shot review tool to Windows as well as Linux.
Monday, July 31st, 2023
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Check out Goo Engine: Blender for 3D anime
Interesting fork of the open-source 3D software adds animation and rendering features for anime artists.
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
Get free Cesium plugins for UE5, O3DE, Unity, Omniverse
Open-source geospatial data plugins create full-scale replicas of the Earth inside game engines.
Saturday, March 25th, 2023
DreamWorks open-sources its MoonRay renderer
Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
AMD releases FSR 2.2
Open-source render upscaling tech for games and DCC apps now supports temporal upscaling. See what's new in the latest update.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
Download open-source VR sketching tool Open Brush 2.0
Big update to the free app adds a layers system, pressure sensitivity and new options for mixed reality.
Friday, January 27th, 2023
Autodesk releases Open RV
The open-source edition of RV is out. See how it differs from the commercial edition of the Academy Award-winning shot review tool.
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
Amazon open-sources Krakatoa, XMesh, Frost, Stoke
Volumetric rendererer and particle tools for 3ds Max and Maya now free via an Apache 2.0 licence.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
Nvidia open-sources PhysX 5
Download the source code for the latest version of the real-time physics SDK, along with smoke and fire simulation system Flow 2.0.
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 22.10
Open-source game engine's new terrain system handles '16km x 16km worlds at high framerates'.
Friday, October 14th, 2022
Nvidia fully open-sources MDL
Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.
Friday, August 12th, 2022
Autodesk open-sources RV
Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
Check out cutting-edge renderer Mitsuba 3
As well as standard forward rendering, the research-oriented tool can generate 3D objects matching 2D images.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2022