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Terragen Sky

Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Environment generation software gets highly multithreaded rendering, plus heightfield export to 16-bit TIFFs for Unity and Unreal Engine.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Streamlined tool for generating skies for use in matte paintings or as environment maps gets 32K HDR export, better live sync with UE5.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

Streamlined app for generating photorealistic CG skies, including 360° HDRIs, is out in early access.

Monday, December 19th, 2022

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

Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025