Autodesk ships Maya 2020.1 and Maya LT 2020.1
Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Unity
Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Get CG software for free during the coronavirus outbreak
Need to work from home? Your CG software may be available free if you use these companies' tools.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Glassbox Technologies releases BeeHive
Interesting collaboration tool for virtual production and VR syncs scene editing sessions across Maya, UE4 and Unity.
Saturday, March 14th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2.1
Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Unity acquires Artomatix
AI-driven tools developer's material-processing tech to be integrated in Unity, but will remain available for other game engines.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
Download Maxon's free Cineware for Unity plugin
Handy plugin converts Cinema 4D rigs, materials and lights into their Unity equivalents for real-time use.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
QuadSpinner ships Gaea 1.0.29 and previews Gaea 1.2
Check out the terrain design tool's new 2.5D viewport, procedural snow and ice, and flow data maps.
Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
e-on software launches PlantCatalog
PlantFactory creator launches new set of procedural 3D plants for use in DCC apps and game engines.
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
Rokoko launches Blender plugin for its mocap systems
New integration plugin lets users stream data to Blender from Rokoko's low-cost mocap suits.
Friday, February 7th, 2020
Godot Engine wins $250,000 Epic MegaGrant
Strings-free dev grant will be used to improve the open-source game engine's rendering capabilities.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Unity 2019.3 ships
Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
Watch The Heretic, Unity's beautiful new CG short
See the latest Unity demo short, showcasing advances in real-time shading for hair, eyes and cloth.
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020