Download free Blender add-on Bystedt's Blender Baker
Updated: Neat add-on streamlines baking PBR textures inside Blender. Now supports thickness maps.
Sunday, September 10th, 2023
texture baking
ArmorPaint 0.9 ships
Popular open-source 3D texture painting software gets a new Smudge tool, group masks, and better OBJ import.
Friday, September 8th, 2023
Marmoset releases Toolbag 4.05
Real-time rendering and look dev app gets new texture painting features, light baking, USD support.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.3
Major update adds USD support to the 3D texture painting software, and revamps baking workflow.
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Pablo Dobarro releases CozyBlanket 2.0
Easy-to-use iPad retopology app now also supports UV unwrapping, UV packing and texture baking.
Monday, November 7th, 2022
Download Epic Games' new free e-book on UE5's Nanite
Get a concise introduction to Unreal Engine's virtualized geometry system and its impact on game art workflows.
Friday, October 14th, 2022
Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 5 R9
Check out the new features in this major update to the bonus tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting app.
Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Foundry ships Mari 5.0v4
3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.
Friday, August 12th, 2022
SideFX releases Houdini 19.5
Read a detailed run-down of new features in the procedural 3D app, including updates to simulation, creature effects, Solaris and Karma.
Thursday, July 21st, 2022
Sneak peek: Houdini 19.5
See a full list of new features in the next version of Houdini, including updates to creature effects, fluid simulation, Solaris and Karma.
Monday, July 18th, 2022
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.04
Real-time rendering toolkit gets physically accurate DoF, lens flares and motion blur. GPU ray tracing now supported on AMD hardware.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in November 2021
See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021