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terrain

Detailed free dataset based on NASA imagery can be used with Cesium's open-source plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine.

Sunday, August 11th, 2024

Master professional procedural techniques for VFX and animation with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive Houdini tutorial.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Games artist Mihail Lupu's neat $45 script lets you create or edit organic models directly inside Max.

Thursday, May 11th, 2023

Open-source geospatial data plugins create full-scale replicas of the Earth inside game engines.

Saturday, March 25th, 2023

Godot 4.0 ships

Discover five key features for CG artists in this major update to the open-source game engine, from Vulkan rendering to real-time GI.

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

Check out the new features in F12's biologically accurate Blender-based tree generator, like the new Roots tool and breeze animation.

Friday, July 29th, 2022

See the games Houdini was used on this year alongside clips of the custom tools used to create them.

Tuesday, July 12th, 2022

New open-source plugin streams real-world geospatial data into UE4 from platforms like Cesium ion.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Popular plugin turns online DEM data into 3D terrain inside 3ds Max - now to 30m resolution worldwide.

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021

Check out the new features in the terrain generator, including new options for searching for and importing real-world terrain data.

Tuesday, December 15th, 2020

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020

Money will help fund development of an Unreal Engine live link plugin for the terrain generation software.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020