Quixel releases Mixer 2019
Big update adds parametric authoring and image-to-PBR-material conversion to the scan blending tool, now in free beta.
Friday, March 15th, 2019
terrain generation
SideFX ships Houdini 17.5
Major update to Houdini adds ground-breaking Procedural Dependency Graph, distributed fluid sims, updated Vellum solver.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
QuadSpinner ships Gaea
Hotly tipped next-gen terrain design tool gets official release. The Community edition is free, and licensed for commercial work.
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
e-on software shakes up Vue and PlantFactory
Newly updated digital nature tools available as rental-only product bundles, not individual purchases.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.3
Landscape-generation software gets new cloud animation controls and new deferred shading mode.
Monday, November 19th, 2018
QuadSpinner open-sources entire Vue portfolio
Download over 100 free materials, MetaNodes and atmospheres for e-on's landscape-generation app.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Red Giant adds new fluids engine to Trapcode Suite 15
After Effects tool suite's Particular and Form plugins get eyecatching new gaseous fluids capabilities.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
World Machine 3022 'Mt. Daniel' ships
Terrain generator gets fast new snow system with separate controls for snow deposition and snow melt.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.2
Terrain rendering times cut by up to 4x, plus new option to use a render as a projected texture on export.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
e-on ships Vue 2016 R6 and PlantFactory 2016 R6
PlantFactory gets new diamond mode for leaves, more flower controls. Speed boosts in Vue.
Friday, June 29th, 2018
Esri ships CityEngine 2018.0
Procedural 3D city-generation tool gets greater integration with Unreal Studio for VR work, new option to distribute geometry along curves.
Friday, May 11th, 2018
World Machine 3021 ships
Latest update to the terrain generator adds support for JPEG and EXR files and fixes a lot of long-standing workflow issues.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
Quadspinner ships Gaea 2480
Promising landscape generation tool gets new scale controls for erosion, better user control over soil, rain and snow distribution.
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018