After showing an impressive demo last year and unleashing recently with the UE5 preview, Nanite is all the rage these days. I just had to go in and have some fun trying to figure it out and explain how I think it operates and the technical decisions behind it using a renderdoc capture. See The full article…
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UV-Packer for Unreal Engine is a free, fast and exact tool for automatic packing of UV maps. It optimally packs even massive geometries with a single click without the need to leave Unreal Engine or reimport assets….>> UV-Packer for Unreal Engine UV-Packer has been stress-tested in the last decade on millions of assets and polished in heavy…
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Terrain Mixer 2.0.5 for Blender Released Terrain Mixer for Blender allows you to choose between ‘Cycles’ and ‘Geometry Nodes’ workflow to be able to generate realistic and abstract terrains with almost no effort. It is such great tool for Environment Artists, Game Artists, Matte Painters, Concept Artists, and Illustrators and available to buy on…>> Gumroad…
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Free Online Tool: UV Checker Map Maker Here is an awesome free generator with which you can test the uv distortion of your models >> UV Checker Map Maker This useful tool, which allows you to export in high resolution up to 8k, was developed by former Weta Workshop senior 3D models – Jorge Valle…
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Auto Setup for Unity By Reallusion Reallusion offers Unity tools that guarantee visual consistency with iClone and Character Creator. Enjoy complete control over the look of the characters and have Unity’s HDRP Digital Human shader ready automatically…>> Auto Setup for Unity
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Amazon open sources tools for Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max Today Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces that AWS Thinkbox plugins for Autodesk Maya (Krakatoa MY and XMesh MY), and for Autodesk 3ds Max (Krakatoa MX, XMesh MX, Frost MX, and Stoke MX) are now available under the Apache 2.0 open source license. You can…
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Autodesk has announced the release of Maya 2023.1. New features include: Updates to the Boolean stack give modellers more control when adding and editing new input objects. Additionally, a new Interactive Update option has been exposed, providing a quick way to mitigate slow boolean performance while working with dense scenes. A new HumanIK character template called…
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The Blender Foundation has announced the release of Blender 3.2. New features include: Support for Light Groups to allow users to modify the colour and intensity of lights in post without re-rendering Cycles now supports selective rendering of caustics in shadows of refractive objects. Motion Blur now works with volumetrics. Many poly painting improvements, including…
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Our understanding of history mostly comes from artifacts, but what if we could see the expressions on the face of an ancient human? What if we could actually see him move his facial muscles to reflect surprise, or anger, or fear—or even to smile at you? Those were the questions posed by Sofija Stefanović, Professor…
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