Discover how to create a detailed exterior scene in Maya
Master core workflows with Digital Domain look dev lead Adrien Vallecilla's new Gnomon tutorial.
Sunday, May 17th, 2020
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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
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
Act-3D releases Lumion 10.3
Real-time visualisation software gets an improved render preview, support for displacement maps, new live link plugin for AutoCAD.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
e-on software ships Vue R4 and PlantFactory R4
Vue gets automated real-world terrain data import; PlantFactory gets 3ds Max and Maya plugins.
Friday, December 13th, 2019
Download Kaiserbold's 10 free photographic cutout trees
Get free cutouts of broadleaved and coniferous trees for use in archviz images. Commercial use.
Sunday, November 3rd, 2019
Download 24 free environment sculpting brushes
Get 24 free brushes for sculpting natural and man-made materials, in Blender format and as PNG files.
Sunday, September 15th, 2019
Epic Games releases free TwinMotion update
Real-time visualisation software gets new SketchUp live link, plus 25 new readymade grass assets.
Monday, August 19th, 2019
e-on software ships Vue R3 and PlantFactory R3
Vue gets new orthographic camera and support for V-Ray Next; both apps get better Substance support.
Monday, August 19th, 2019
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.19
Free game engine gets new procedural vegetation system, plus sizeable update to the Script Canvas visual scripting system.
Thursday, June 20th, 2019
IDV ships SpeedTree 8.4
Games edition of the tree-generation tool gets new wind animation algorithm, better texture atlas generation. Smaller updates to the Cinema edition.
Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
e-on software ships Vue R2 and PlantFactory R2
Vue gets updates to EcoSystems, the cloud tools and the Path Tracer; PlantFactory gets interactive path traced previews.
Thursday, April 25th, 2019