Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021
Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
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Get over 600 sets of free PBR textures from Texture Box
Download sets of texture maps for bricks, concrete, wood and plaster at 4,096 x 4,096px resolution.
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 4.2
Texture map generation tool gets new low-cost student and personal licences for non-commercial work.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Download Ten24's free hi-res 3D scan of a male human head
Get it from 3D Scan Store in ZTL, OBJ or FBX format, with up to 16,384 x 16,384-pixel PBR textures.
Thursday, June 27th, 2019
Download 50 free 8K PBR textures from Texture Haven
New site provides high-resolution scanned textures of environment materials under a CC0 licence.
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Filter Forge releases Filter Forge 7.0
Node-based tool for authoring effects filters gets new workflow to support any 2D image-editing app.
Tuesday, November 21st, 2017
Download Eisko's free rigged model of a human head
Updated: Get this photorealistic female head based on scan data. Now rigged and ready to animate.
Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 3.1
Toolkit for turning source images into games texture maps gets new PBR shaders, new emissive and opacity outputs.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
FaronStudio releases PixPlant 3
Straightforward general-purpose app tiles source photos into a range of common texture map types.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 3
Inexpensive texture map creation tool gets new baking options, image filters, support for 32-bit workflow.
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Knald Technologies releases Lys in open beta
Cool new tool converts HDR files between formats and generates specular and irradiance textures.
Thursday, September 4th, 2014
Allegorithmic releases B2M Lite for iOS and Android
Create texture maps on the move with this free version of Bitmap2Material for mobile devices.
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 2.0
Normal mapping toolkit gets new image-editing controls, faster algorithms, 15 built-in grunge maps.
Thursday, December 6th, 2012