EmberGen is now in beta
JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.
Monday, May 4th, 2020
Unreal Engine
Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1
Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
NewTek ships LightWave 2020
3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.
Friday, April 24th, 2020
Download the new free Unigine Community Edition
Powerful enterprise-grade real-time 3D engine now available free for indie games and VFX projects.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
Download 50 free scanned 3D tree and plant models
Get Tirido's poplar and aspen forest asset pack for UE4 free from Epic Games' Unreal Engine marketplace.
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
Golaem ships Golaem 7.3
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021
Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
Download over 550 free Project Nature plant models
Get high-quality free Unreal Engine grass, shrub and tree assets, many with support for wind animation.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
Get 150 free mocap moves from Rokoko's Motion Library
Includes 50 new high-impact moves recorded specially by God of War stunt artist Eric Jacobus.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
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
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
Epic Games acquires facial mocap firm Cubic Motion
Unreal Engine developer continues to buy its partners from its recent real-time digital human tech demos.
Friday, March 13th, 2020