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Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

You can download the set of 1,200+ meshes of buildings and props free from Epic Games' Fab marketplace - but you'll need to be quick about it.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025

Check out the new features in the modular, open-source, hardware-agnostic framework for developing real-time rendering technology.

Saturday, March 8th, 2025

New standalone app from the maker of the Unwrella plugins for 3ds Max and Maya promises easy UV unwrapping and packing.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025

Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

Discover how NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs performed in CG software like 3ds Max, Arnold, Blender, Maya, UE5 and V-Ray in our early tests.

Friday, February 7th, 2025

Check out upcoming features in the game engine, from rendering and simulation to Megaworlds biomes, next-gen terrain and Anim Next.

Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

Free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and VFX comes with four free stock explosion and tornado effects.

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

Get CropCraft Studios' Modular Bakery Shop pack of 3D assets for creating a shop and cafe for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

Get free tools for generating procedural ruins and procedural flesh from SideFX's Houdini-to-UE5 game environment demo.

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

Get Scale XYZ's Pirate Stilt Village Island Modular Pack of 3D buildings, props and trees for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace.

Thursday, January 2nd, 2025

Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024