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UV editing

Read our run-down of the latest features in UE5, from procedural content and Substrate materials to Chaos Flesh.

Friday, May 12th, 2023

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from sculpting and hair grooming to a hidden bonus for UV workflows.

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from path guiding in Cycles to a hidden bonus for motion designers.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Easy-to-use iPad retopology app now also supports UV unwrapping, UV packing and texture baking.

Monday, November 7th, 2022

Amazing set of free tools and scripts adds brush- and physics-based set dressing to 3ds Max.

Monday, August 15th, 2022

Get Autodesk's handy free set of Maya add-ons, now with real-time Boolean modelling tool Speed Cut.

Thursday, May 20th, 2021

New Lite edition of Tripolygon's popular sketch-based modeling and level design tool for Unity can be used free in commercial work.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Both GPU renderers get new options for rendering animations, plus a free GPU benchmarking tool.

Monday, November 9th, 2020

Get Autodesk's handy free set of Maya modelling, layout and rigging add-ons, including 11 new tools.

Wednesday, February 5th, 2020

New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Update adds render denoising, Workbenches system for custom UI layouts, more improvements to modelling, UVs and tech animation.

Friday, November 16th, 2018