Colormass Scans 177 Reasons to Check Your Shader
Colormass offers free scanned materials for look development. The maps deserve a close look, and the licence deserves an even closer one.
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LotPixel drops 1,300+ free PBR textures in Hub app
LotPixel Hub beta gives 3D artists free access to 1,300+ PBR textures up to 8K, with Blender integration and more DCCs to come.
Marmoset’s Material Library Drop: Free Textures for Toolbag 5
Marmoset releases a new batch of free materials for Toolbag 5, including textures and assets for game development, animation, and VFX artists.
ZBrush Tiling Tools Accelerates Seamless Textures
Lucas Annunziata’s ZTool provides canvas framing and related utilities for creating tiling textures in ZBrush.
Ptolemee 6.0 Adds Environment Backdrops and Cubemaps
Ptolemee 6.0 added environment backdrops, cubemaps, improved file browsing and new tessellation, displacement and tiling controls.
Creating a Stylised Pink Revolver in Blender
Vitaly Rush’s Blender breakdown covers the modelling and presentation of a stylised pink revolver.
Texture Set Mixer Packs Texture Maps for Real-Time Engines
John Martini’s Texture Set Mixer grouped maps, packed bitmap channels, combined alpha images and automated batch processing.
Free Scalable UV Checker Maps
Maurus Kamehameha shared four free UV checker maps in 4K, 8K, vector PDF and editable Illustrator formats.
Vertex Colour Editor for 3ds Max
Joker Martini's 3ds Max tool assigned vertex colours by element, object or vertex using distance, position, order or name.
SIGGRAPH Paper: Image based Material Editing
Paper shows how the material properties of an object can be changed completely and automatically
Cinema 4D R9.1 Available Now
The free update to Release 9 of Cinema 4D offers improvements primarily in the areas of data exchange, N-gons, interface and materials.
Lightwork Design: Benjamin Moore Colors in LWA Format
Lightwork Design is making the complete color and material set of leading American paint manufacturer Benjamin Moore available in LWA format.
Direct Data Exchange Between ArchiCAD and Cinema 4D
Maxon is releasing an eXchange plug-in that allows all relevant objects, object classes, lights, materials and cameras in a project to be exported from Graphisoft ArchiCAD to Cinema 4D.
Tag Manager for Cinema 4D
The Tag Manager for Cinema 4D adds new functions and simplifies tag handling.