Unreal Engine 5.2: five key features for CG artists
Read our run-down of the latest features in UE5, from procedural content and Substrate materials to Chaos Flesh.
Friday, May 12th, 2023
Unreal Engine
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2023
Updated: perpetual licences of the 3D sculpting and retopology app now back down to their old price.
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2023.1
Now shipping: visualisation tool gets streamlined new UI, updated path tracer, multi-GPU rendering.
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
Use NeRFs in Unreal Engine with Luma AI's new plugin
Get volumetric captures into UE5 to use as props or environments with the plugin, currently free in alpha.
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
Get free Cesium plugins for UE5, O3DE, Unity, Omniverse
Open-source geospatial data plugins create full-scale replicas of the Earth inside game engines.
Saturday, March 25th, 2023
MetaShoot puts a virtual photo studio in Unreal Engine
New plugin makes rendering model turntables or product visualisations inside UE5 a one-click process.
Friday, March 24th, 2023
Eye candy: Epic Games' 2023 MetaHuman sizzle reel
See beautiful new animations created with the toolset for creating next-gen real-time 3D characters.
Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
Epic Games announces Fab
Unreal Engine, ArtStation and Sketchfab marketplaces to merge into giant 'open market' with assets for all DCC apps & game engines.
Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
Move.ai now works with Android phones and webcams
Promising AI-based markerless mocap system now works on video from any device, not just iPhones.
Monday, March 20th, 2023
Nvidia's free Canvas app now generates 360° 4K EXRs
Free AI art tool turns your sketches into environment maps for use in game engines and DCC apps.
Friday, March 17th, 2023
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.1
Free GPU renderer gets support for new bevel shader, better viewport rendering, support for light linking.
Monday, March 13th, 2023
Free NeRF toolset Nerfstudio now supports 360° video
Reconstruct 3D scenes matching 360-degree video and export to DCC apps as PLY or OBJ files.
Monday, March 13th, 2023
Download 50 free 3D scanned trees and rocks
Download Maelstrom Studios' MAE Oak Forest asset pack for Unreal Engine for free during March 2023.
Sunday, March 12th, 2023