Houdini gets new UV Flatten and FBX export tools
Latest production build adds new UV unwrapping and packing tools, plus support for LODs in FBX files.
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
UV unwrapping
Robert McNeel & Associates ships Rhino 6 for Windows
Long-awaited update to NURBS modeller adds interactive viewport raytracing, node-based workflow.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
Motiva unveils Unknit for Unreal Engine and 3ds Max
Watch a demo of this promising UV unwrapping tool from the devs behind UE4's Datasmith toolset.
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
Rizom-Lab ships Unfold3D V10 VS and Unfold3D V10 RS
Popular UV unwrapping tool gets two new market-specific editions for design and entertainment work.
Thursday, October 5th, 2017
Gnomon releases Texturing and Shading for Production
Follow ILM artist Jesse Flores's eight-hour video tutorial in Maya, Mari, V-Ray and Substance Painter.
Tuesday, September 12th, 2017
Marius Silaghi ships Unwrap Pro for 3ds Max
Promising new UV unfolding plugin gives 'low-distortion, overlap-free' results even on complex models.
Thursday, April 27th, 2017
3d-io ships Unwrella 3.10
Long-established automatic UV unfolding plugin for 3ds Max and Maya gets fast new flatten unwrap mode for hard-surface objects.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
Headus ships UVLayout 2.10
Veteran UV unwrapping tool adds option to import multiple meshes, plus improved lightmap support.
Thursday, October 27th, 2016
New Blender add-on makes UV packing like playing Tetris
Vilem Novak's amazing free GPack 'gravity packer' tool puts the fun back into your UV packing work.
Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
Raylight Games releases XrayUnwrap 2.0 for Maya
Inexpensive UV unwrapping tool gets new selection, seam-handling and resymmetry options, better UDIM support.
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2017
Videos: See the new ART renderer, revamped UI, and updates to the UV and modelling tools in action here.
Monday, April 18th, 2016
Raylight Games releases XrayUnwrap 2.0 for 3ds Max
Inexpensive one-click UV unwrapping tool gets new options for selecting and organising UVs and handling seams.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
Polygonal Design releases Unfold3D Generation 9
Big update to UV unwrapping tool adds neat brush-based workflows for optimising UVs; UDIM support and Lua scripting.
Wednesday, June 10th, 2015