Master environment art workflows for videogames
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Saturday, March 16th, 2019
vegetation
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 4.0
Big update reworks the layout and rendering tool's lighting pipeline and adds USD support. See the key features and pricing changes here.
Friday, February 1st, 2019
IDV ships SpeedTree Engine for Clarisse iFX
New version of the tree-creation tech lets users generate variant trees and animation inside Clarisse.
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
SpeedTree Cinema 8.2 ships
Tree-creation software gets new toolset for blending meshes captured via photogrammetry into its procedurally generated trees.
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
e-on software shakes up Vue and PlantFactory
Newly updated digital nature tools available as rental-only product bundles, not individual purchases.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Abvent ships Artlantis 2019
Architectural rendering software gets new site insertion tool and exposure slider. Old Render and Studio editions unified into one.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
Download Disney's data set for Motunui island from Moana
Explore the actual production data, now available for research and testing. OBJ format, Ptex textures.
Wednesday, July 4th, 2018
See the top five new features in Lumberyard in 2017
Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
F12 ships The Grove Release 5
Blender-based tree-creation tool gets support for wind animation. Results can be exported to other apps in FBX or Alembic format.
Thursday, November 30th, 2017
Download 11 free 3D scans from Megascans 2018
Get free scans of ground materials, rocks and vegetation from Quixel's newly revamped online library.
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
IDV ships SpeedTree Cinema 8
Update to the tree-generation tool adds PBR support; new modelling, animation and export options. Price of a perpetual licence down $500.
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Crytek releases CryEngine 5.4
Now officially released. Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, new Vulkan renderer, and terrain blending.
Thursday, September 21st, 2017
Easy Treez turns rough poly models into procedural trees
Neat plugin lets you use Maya's standard tools to control the form of the animated CG trees it creates.
Wednesday, August 16th, 2017