Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 3.5
Free update to the texturing tool adds live link to Photoshop, new graph profiler, better 3D preview.
Friday, March 29th, 2013
Unity
Mixamo releases Mecanim Animation Store plugin
New Unity add-on lets developers access Mixamo's motion library from directly within the software.
Friday, January 25th, 2013
Doctor Who fan builds augmented reality Tardis
It really is bigger inside than it is outside, thanks to some nifty work in Blender, Unity and the Vuforia SDK.
Friday, December 28th, 2012
Allegorithmic creates $99 Substance Designer licence
Identical to the full $590 edition, but intended for non-commercial use by hobbyists and games modders.
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 2.0
Normal mapping toolkit gets new image-editing controls, faster algorithms, 15 built-in grunge maps.
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Unity Technologies ships Unity 4
Developer's 'biggest release to date' adds Mecanim character animation system, support for DirectX 11.
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
Atangeo ships polygon Cruncher plugin for Unity
New games mesh-decimation tool generates LODs preserving your normals and texture co-ordinates.
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Paint games flow maps with FlowMap Painter
Teck Lee Tan's intriguing free tool creates surface fluid flow patterns with only a few brush strokes.
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 3
Updated - now shipping: games texturing tool gets new bitmap paint system and batching capabilities.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
Oculus Rift VR headset nets $1 million on Kickstarter
John Carmack-backed $300 VR device smashes its campaign target within one day of crowd funding.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
Preview: thinkingParticles 6 and thinkingParticles GE
3ds Max particle system to gain fluid and cloth sim tools, plus new edition for Unity and Unreal game engines.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Brekel Kinect Pro Face: facial mocap with a Kinect
Updated: stream data from the $99 markerless system into Unity, MotionBuilder... and now 3ds Max.
Friday, July 20th, 2012
New Hair Factory plugin gets Blender hair into Unity
Convert particle-based Blender hair to an FBX file to stamp out low-poly character baldness.
Saturday, July 14th, 2012