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texture baking

Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.

Monday, August 23rd, 2021

New sub-€100 3D texturing app can be used to paint or bake 16k PBR texture maps for use in other DCC software or game engines.

Tuesday, July 13th, 2021

Big free update to the real-time rendering and look dev tool adds neat texturing and lighting features, RTX-accelerated render denoising.

Thursday, July 8th, 2021

Discover key texturing techniques for visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Thursday, May 27th, 2021

Real-time rendering toolkit gets new GPU-accelerated ray tracing system, new 3D painting toolset.

Monday, April 5th, 2021

3D texturing app to get Python 3 support, new USD workflows and updated brush engine, but macOS edition cancelled.

Friday, March 19th, 2021

Digital nature tools get USD export, support for native Arnold materials, revamped Cinema 4D integrations.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

3D texture painting tool gets new Geometry Mask system, plus option to copy effects between layers.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

3D texture painting tool gets new options for creating and sharing procedural masks, isolating materials, and baking textures.

Friday, December 11th, 2020

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Material authoring software now updated to Substance Engine 8. Check out the new tools it brings.

Tuesday, October 13th, 2020

Next big update to the popular real time rendering toolkit for games artists to support RTX-accelerated ray tracing and texture baking.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020