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See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3

Friday, September 27th, 2019

It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.

Friday, August 16th, 2019

Real-time VFX and motion graphics tools get new GPU-agnostic hybrid ray tracing system, plus native support for Substance materials.

Friday, June 7th, 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

See the real-time motion graphics tool's interesting new path tracing system. Runs on any current GPU.

Thursday, February 21st, 2019

Open-source 2D animation tool gets new text generator effect, plus touchscreen support on Windows.

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019

Pose characters by drawing in the viewport with Moka Studio's innovative animation tool, then see the result in Maya.

Friday, October 5th, 2018

It's a huge update, so get up to speed faster with our run-down of the key features for CG artists.

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

See the new graphics features due in Unity 2018.1 to 2018.3, from new materials and animation options to the GPU lightmapper.

Friday, March 23rd, 2018

Powerful GPU-based renderer now available for viewport and offline renders in Unity. Free on one GPU.

Monday, December 18th, 2017

Update to real-time character animation tool overhauls the DoF system and animation timeline; adds paid-for Curve Editor plugin.

Wednesday, December 6th, 2017

To mark the news that Nvidia is to discontinue the renderer, we look back over the highs and lows of nearly 30 years of Mental Ray.

Monday, November 20th, 2017

Update to game engine adds new cinematics tools, improved sprite editing, particles and animation.

Wednesday, July 12th, 2017