Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2022 VS and RS
UV unwrapping software gets new UV packing workflow better suited to current UDIM-based pipelines.
Thursday, November 25th, 2021
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Quixel ships Mixer 2021.1.2
Latest update extends the free material creation software's handling of UDIMs and texture sets. See all of the new features here.
Thursday, September 2nd, 2021
Redshift gets new 'Easy' UI
Redshift 3.0.51 update streamlines the GPU renderer's user interface. Blender plugin gets support for OSL shaders and UDIM textures.
Thursday, August 12th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 7.2
3D texture painting app gets better auto UV unwrapping, support for the new Adobe Standard Material.
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
Master texturing for production in Mari and Maya
Discover key texturing techniques for visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Erik Lehmann ships RS UV Kit 2.0 for Maya
Handy workflow add-on streamlines common UV unfolding and UV packing tasks inside Maya.
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
Get a free 46,080 x 23,040px displacement map of the Moon
Download this detailed free texture map to recreate the lunar surface in 3D. Licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, February 21st, 2021
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2021.1
3D texture painting tool gets new Geometry Mask system, plus option to copy effects between layers.
Friday, January 29th, 2021
Get a free 43,200 x 21,600px displacement map of the Earth
Create detailed renders of the planet's surface from space with this huge free 16-bit texture map.
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
Agisoft ships Metashape 1.7
Check out the new features in the photogrammetry tool, including faster depth map generation and integration with laser scan data.
Friday, January 8th, 2021
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2020.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools' neat new TopoCopy system is 'first unique feature in UV mapping in years'.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.0 for Blender
Free physically accurate renderer now offers hardware-accelerated ray tracing on new AMD GPUs.
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2020.2
3D texture painting software gets long-awaited ability to paint across UDIM tiles. Check out the other new features here.
Friday, July 24th, 2020