Epic Games acquires Shave and a Haircut
Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code.
Thursday, June 6th, 2019
Source Code
Unity 2019.1 ships
Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Godot team ships Godot 3.1
Open-source game engine gets new Boolean modelling system, soft body dynamics, plus revamped 2D and 3D animation toolsets.
Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Download neat new free camera matching tool fSpy
Open-source tool finds the camera position for real-world backplates for use in VFX or composited stills.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018
Download the free Kinect Mocap Toolkit For Windows
New free tool lets users record full-body mocap in BVH format via up to four secondhand Kinect sensors.
Sunday, November 4th, 2018
Free tool Materialize converts photos to PBR materials
Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Nvidia open-sources MDL
SDK of the Material Definition Language supported in V-Ray, Substance Designer and Adobe tools now available as source code.
Friday, August 17th, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity source code on GitHub
But don't get too excited: it's for reference only, not modification, and it's the C# source, not the C++.
Thursday, March 29th, 2018
Autodesk posts Softimage to Arnold source code on GitHub
Code for the SitoA plugin available via an Apache 2.0 licence. Latest update supports Arnold 5.0.2.4.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
Houdini gets new UV Flatten and FBX export tools
Latest production build adds new UV unwrapping and packing tools, plus support for LODs in FBX files.
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
Amazon to post Lumberyard source code on GitHub
Full C++ source code of the AAA game engine to be made available in a new public GitHub repository.
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Animal Logic open-sources its AL_USDMaya plugin
Studio's in-house USD authoring plugin for Maya, used on Peter Rabbit, now available open-source.
Friday, August 4th, 2017
Autodesk ceases sales of Gameware middleware
Scaleform, Navigation, Beast and HumanIK sales stopped on 12 July. Existing users get final source code of some tools.
Wednesday, July 19th, 2017