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Substance 3D Painter 10.1 Update

Version 10.1 of Substance 3D Painter, released near the end of 2024, is a major update that brings several improvements designed to make the texturing experience smoother and more powerful. With new features, enhanced support for the USD format, and significant performance upgrades, this version aims to meet the needs of 3D artists, game designers, and VFX professionals. Notably, the addition of new filter options and an update to core dependencies ensure a greater flexibility and speed during the creative workflow.

ELEMENT 3D FOR AFTER EFFECTS

[:en]Imagine the possibility offered by Physically Based (Realtime) Rendering (PBR shading) and the immediate response of this next-gen videogame technology applyed to 3D Visualization.[:ru]Imagine the possibility offered by Physically Based (Realtime) Rendering (PBR shading) and the immediate response of this next-gen videogame technology applied to 3D Visualization.[:]

Real HDR released

Developers of Real IES, a standalone tool for generating photometric lights, recently released their new software - Real HDR, that allows creating 32-bit HDR files to use in various rendering software for custom lighting scenarios.

Autodesk Maya 2019

Autodesk has released Maya 2019 update with performance improvements, Cashed Playback for faster animations, Viewport 2.0 and other features based on user requests.

Real IES 3 released

Real IES 3, software to create photometric lights, is released with some new features added, a slight redesign of UI and general usability improvements.

Unreal Studio open beta

Unreal Studio - a complex real-time visualization solution created specifically to meet the needs of architects and product designers - is in free open beta until November 2018.

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Modo 11.1

The Foundry released Modo 11.1 update with a lot of cool features

Google Poly

Google has presented a new initiative to popularize VR and AR creation - Poly, a library of low-poly 3D objects and scenes optimized for apps.

PHOTOSHOP CC NEW 3D FEATURES

Last Friday at the 3D Printshow in New York Adobe demonstrated three new features that will be available for 3D and 3D Printing in a future version of Photoshop CC.

THEA RENDER 1.4

Delivering upon the promise of an even faster physically-based biased/unbiased renderer, improvements of Thea Presto which supports NVIDIA CUDA technology for its GPU engine were made possible. While staying true to our principle that combination of CPU and GPU devices provide stunning visual quality and short render times, release 1.4 provides a range of new robust features and improvements.