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Get the hair and fur plugin and its Arnold, RenderMan and V-Ray shaders from Epic Games for free.

Thursday, October 24th, 2019

Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code.

Thursday, June 6th, 2019

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

Open-source game engine gets new Boolean modelling system, soft body dynamics, plus revamped 2D and 3D animation toolsets.

Thursday, March 14th, 2019

Open-source tool finds the camera position for real-world backplates for use in VFX or composited stills.

Wednesday, November 21st, 2018

New free tool lets users record full-body mocap in BVH format via up to four secondhand Kinect sensors.

Sunday, November 4th, 2018

Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.

Thursday, October 18th, 2018

SDK of the Material Definition Language supported in V-Ray, Substance Designer and Adobe tools now available as source code.

Friday, August 17th, 2018

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

Code for the SitoA plugin available via an Apache 2.0 licence. Latest update supports Arnold 5.0.2.4.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

Latest production build adds new UV unwrapping and packing tools, plus support for LODs in FBX files.

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Full C++ source code of the AAA game engine to be made available in a new public GitHub repository.

Friday, August 18th, 2017

Studio's in-house USD authoring plugin for Maya, used on Peter Rabbit, now available open-source.

Friday, August 4th, 2017