One click, fewer vertex pushes

SmartConform Pro is a geometry-based conform and projection tool that wraps meshes onto complex surfaces like terrain, walls, and props directly inside the editor. The goal is to avoid manual rotation, scaling, and tweaking when placing assets on uneven geometry.

The core workflow is simple_ You select a source mesh and a target surface, then run a projection to conform the source onto the target. The tool targets common environment tasks like placing sci-fi panels, vents, and other hard-surface details onto curved geometry, plus placing rocks, debris, and similar assets naturally on terrain. Or, as we now them, ALL DA GREEBLIES!

Wrapping modes, overhangs, and smoothing

SmartConform Pro includes projection modes for surface-based wrapping and vertical projection, with volume preservation called out as a “design intent” – including supposedly smart overhang handling with an optional fallback to world surfaces.

There is a relaxation smoothing feature intended to reduce stretching and improve deformation quality. The interface provides a real-time preview for interactive setting changes before committing the result. One takeaway is that this is meant for fast conform tasks where the input mesh shape and UVs should stay predictable after the confrom step, instead of becoming a hand-tuned placement problem.

Baking, Nanite, and what it depends on

SmartConform Pro can bake the result to a static mesh, with Nanite readiness claimed after baking. Nanite support is described in the context of generating baked meshes suitable for high-detail rendering workflows, which aligns with how Nanite operates on static mesh assets.

Under the hood, the tool lists a C plus plus core powered by Geometry Scripting and an Editor Utility Widget interface. The listing also notes it requires the Unreal Engine Geometry Script and Geometry Processing plugins, referencing Geometry Processing as part of the dependency stack.

As always, new tools and workflow shortcuts should be tested on a copy of your project before they touch production assets, especially when deformation, baking, and downstream lighting or collision are involved.

Pricing and availability

SmartConform Pro is sold on Fab, with a Personal license for 55€, and a Professional License for studios / Entities beyond 100.00€ revenue a year, coming in at 96€.

What to watch for in real projects

The promise here is speed: fast placement for modular detailing and kitbashing, without leaving the editor. The real question for pipelines is how consistent the porjection results are across different mesh densities, collision setups, and target surface complexity, and how clean the baked meshes are for Nanite, LODs, and lightmaps once they leave the preview phase.

If this lands, it is the kind of editor utility that pays for itself by deleting a thousand tiny manual adjustments from every environment pass.

https://www.fab.com/listings/3df02265-3c86-4d3f-a17f-3fea15d418f1

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For those who don’t know the tool: Atlux λ plugs into Unreal Engine and ships a virtual studio, lights, presets, and automation for fast renders. It is sold on Fab and can also be installed with the Epic Games Launcher.

Fab listing, now with Mac support

Atlux λ is now available on Fab as a visualisation plugin for Unreal Engine. The newest version adds macOS support. The plugin is solo-developed by Jorge Valle Hurtado. The plugin requires account registration. The listing also shows no rating yet, Allows usage with AI set to Yes, and Generated with AI set to No.

The pitch, minus the pitchforks

The core idea: a complete in-editor photo studio-style workflow aimed at speeding up lighting, rendering, and cinematic work inside Unreal Engine. In practice, that means a Virtual Photo Studio, realistic light assets, studio and light presets, camera motion presets, an automated turntable, batch rendering, post-process materials and LUTs, procedural gobos, VFX reference assets, and a simplified render interface.

A key workflow point is automation around sequences and rendering. Rendering takes one click, with everything handled automatically, and no manual Level Sequences or Movie Render Queue setup required. That is a big promise, so treat it as a workflow claim until you validate it in your own scenes and build environment.

One click rendering as a pipeline building block

If you have ever tried to standardise look dev outputs across a team, you know the dull truth: the hardest part is rarely the final pixels. It is the repeatability. Atlux λ leans into repeatability by bundling its own studio environments, lighting assets, presets, and a streamlined render interface, then pushing users toward a single-button render flow. The idea is to keep the shot setup and output consistent, especially when multiple artists work on the same asset library.

That is also where the curated content matters. When a tool ships with production-ready assets and presets, it reduces the number of decisions per shot and lowers the odds that one artist accidentally reinvents the sun at 3 a.m. It also gives supervisors a clearer target for what “correct” looks like in a shared lighting and camera language.

Gaussian Splatting prep, with COLMAP export

The feature list includes COLMAP export for Gaussian Splatting workflows. For teams experimenting with Splatting , the practical value depends on how smoothly the exported data lines up with your existing reconstruction steps and tooling, including COLMAP. The sources do not provide detailed specifications for what is exported or how it maps to downstream tools, so you will need to validate that part yourself.

Atlux λ Live and packaging as a desktop app

The feature list also includes Atlux λ Live, described as a “runtime version” that allows users to package a scene as a fully interactive desktop application, for purposes such as interactive client presentations, sharing scenes without requiring the Unreal Editor, and delivering a controlled runtime experience using the toolset.

If you have ever handed off an interactive review build to a client, you already know why this matters. Packaging is rarely hard in theory. It is hard because it is always the week you cannot afford surprises. Treat the packaging automation as a convenience feature that still deserves a dry run on your target machines and OS versions.

Pricing and licensing, in plain numbers

Pricing is now official: A Personal perpetual license is listed at US$249.99 excluding tax. A Professional perpetual license is listed at US$349.99 excluding tax. Both are perpetual licenses with one active user on any computer, offline access, and full support, updates, and maintenance.

The buy page has a standalone installer for Windows only for the Personal and Professional options, and it also describes purchasing via Fab with the same Personal and Professional pricing, plus availability on Mac and inclusion in the Epic Games Launcher.

Educational pricing is also specified on the same page. An Educational Rental is listed at US$4.95 per month excluding tax, described as cancel any time, one active user on any computer, and support, updates, and maintenance while active, with Windows only and a requirement for school or academy validation.

Support is for Unreal Engine versions 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7.

// Fab listing page for Atlux λ
https://www.fab.com/listings/3c321e8e-f0b0-4235-ba38-02d59299869b
// Official product homepage and feature overview
https://atlux.one/

Atlux λ 2 brings 3D scanning inside Unreal

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For those who don’t know the tool: Fab is Epic Games marketplace for 3D assets, replacing the Unreal Marketplace. It regularly offers time-limited free asset sets that you can permanently add to your library once claimed. These packs are commercially usable, work in most DCC applications and engines, and are a practical way to expand or start an asset collection without cost.

Two weeks to go before the calendar expires, and if you are looking to bury your good intentions somewhere scenic, Epic Games has the perfect spot. The Cryptic Realms Necropolis pack, normally $99.99, is free on Fab until 27 January 2026.

The pack offers 371 placeable objects to construct a stylised graveyard environment. It includes 80 modular meshes for ruins, tombs and crumbling architecture, plus graves, coffins, and set dressing items to complete the scene of your artistic demise.

Death by detail

Each asset includes 23 materials and textures, up to 4,096 by 4,096 pixels. The models support Nanite and Lumen, Unreal Engine’s systems for high-density geometry and dynamic lighting. There are three preset lighting setups to choose from, along with a modular environmental audio system to ensure your ghosts sound convincing. The pack is built for Unreal Engine 5.1 and later. However, the Fab Standard licence allows use in any engine or tool, including commercial projects, as long as the Fab EULA is followed.

Available now, before it’s dead again

The Necropolis pack can be downloaded free from Fab until 27 January 2026, after which it returns to its regular price. Perfect timing if you plan to give your old projects a decent burial before the new year arrives. As always, test assets thoroughly before using them in production or before the next resurrection of your pipeline.

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Unreal Engine educator and plug-in creator William Faucher has launched EasyToolbag, a new in-engine menu for Unreal Engine 5 designed to simplify repetitive scene setup tasks. The add-on, compatible with versions 5.1 through 5.6, appears as a toolbar icon in the editor and provides one-click access to common scene components and viewport controls.

The tool is organised into three main panels: Create, Viewport Helpers, and EasySuite.

Click Once, Get a Scene

Under Create, EasyToolbag automates tasks that typically require multiple steps. Artists can spawn a Post-Process Volume with sensible defaults—unbound, manual exposure, and lens flares off. Other buttons generate a Level Sequence and CineCamera, create a complete Sky System (directional light, skylight, sky atmosphere, and fog included), or drop a ready-made Lighting Reference Sphere blueprint into the scene.

The latter contains four spheres—black, 18% grey, white, and chrome—standard references for lighting calibration. Layout options let users switch between vertical and horizontal placement directly in-engine.

Viewport Helpers: Smarter Screens

The Viewport Helpers section addresses real-time performance tuning. The Cap FPS toggle limits frame rate to reduce GPU load and heat. Screen Percentage and Exposure Compensation (EV) controls provide quick viewport adjustments, while a Viewport UI Type switch lets users revert to the pre-5.6 layout if the new interface feels unfamiliar. Anti-aliasing methods can be toggled directly from the same menu.

According to the official documentation, these tools aim to “improve viewport performance, reduce GPU temperatures, and improve visual quality”—a practical focus, though exact performance gains were not independently verified at press time.

EasySuite Integration

EasyToolbag also connects with Faucher’s other plug-ins sold on Fab: EasyFog, EasyRain, EasyAtmos, and EasySnow. When these are installed, EasyToolbag adds dedicated buttons for each, spawning their blueprints directly in front of the camera rather than hunting through the Content Browser. EasySnow includes both cinematic and real-time blueprints selectable from the same menu. A community Discord server supports the full “EasySuite,” offering peer assistance for installation and troubleshooting.

Under the Hood

EasyToolbag ships as a Blueprint-only add-on, with no C++ classes required. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and supports the standard Unreal Engine target platforms, including Win32. The tool is distributed through Fab, with documentation available via bit.ly/EasyToolbagDocumentation.

The pricing is exceeedingly reasonable, with a professional License going for 80€ on Fab.com As always, test new utilities in a controlled environment before integrating them into production workflows.

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Woods, but digital

Want to spend some time in the quiet woods and escape the bustle of the city? Epic Games now offers an alternative: 156 digital meshes for building a rural retreat in Unreal Engine. The Modular Rural Cabin pack by Dutch environment artist Maarten Hof is available on Fab for free until 7 October 2025.

What’s in the pack

The assets cover wooden cabins with corrugated iron roofing, furniture, clutter props such as oil drums and tyres, and vegetation including a conifer tree. Six demo scenes are included to show possible layouts. The meshes come with eight customisable master materials, and texture resolution goes up to 2,048 x 2,048 pixels. Lightmaps are baked in, but LODs are missing, which could be relevant for performance-sensitive projects.

From digital cabins to digital forests

The pack comes from Maarten Hof, whose ArtStation portfolio showcases atmospheric forests, modular buildings and moody woodland environments. The assets echo his trademark style: a carefully balanced mix of architectural detail and slightly eerie forest quiet, exactly the kind of place you might escape to if Slack notifications didn’t have a way of following you into the trees.

Technical notes for the cautious

According to the official Fab listing, the assets are designed for “realistic AAA quality visuals, style, and budget.” The kit is provided in Unreal Engine format, supports UE4.22+ and UE5.0+, and stated explicitly was not generated with AI. The package currently holds a 4.8-star rating from 28 reviews on Fab. Distribution follows the Fab Standard Licence, which permits commercial use across engines and tools, subject to the Fab EULA.

Test before production

As with all free marketplace downloads, artists should test the pack in their own pipelines before adopting it for actual production work.

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The Festival of Animation Berlin (FAB 2025) will again take over the German capital’s animation scene from September 26–28, 2025. As Berlin’s only festival dedicated exclusively to animated film: shorts, features, student work, children’s films, and experimental hybrids. FAB’s return brings a focus on variety, community, and global exchange. The venues are unchanged: silent green Kulturquartier and City Kino Wedding.

Six Competitions, 132 Films, and a Japanese Overture

This year’s FAB opens on September 26 with a concert by the Animanga Choir, which will perform music from anime films and series. The opening night is immediately followed by the “German Competition,” one of six competitive categories at the festival. In total, FAB 2025 will showcase 132 films from 33 countries across the following categories: International Competition, German Competition, New Talent (student films), Commissioned Works, Pink Panda (children’s animation for three age groups), and Feature Film Competition. Entries range from 2D and 3D animation to stop-motion, mixed media, and traditional hand-drawn techniques, offering what organizers promise is a snapshot of contemporary animation practice.

Special Focus: Japan’s Animation Talent Takes the Stage

A major focus this year is Japanese animation. Lina Machida, director of the whimsical, poetic official festival trailer, appears as a special guest and workshop leader. In her hands-on session on spatial (projection-based) animation, participants will experiment with projectors as creative tools. Machida, together with Sawako Kabuki, whose hand-drawn, often explicit animations are rarely shown outside Japan, curates a feature film selection spotlighting standout anime titles not usually screened abroad.

FAB’s Japanese guest list also includes stop-motion artist Takeshi Yashiro, whose film GON, THE LITTLE FOX previously won FAB’s main prize in 2020. Yashiro will present a masterclass on authentic material techniques in stop-motion, referencing the Japanese concept of “Mitate-e” (a traditional practice of playful visual analogy). Meanwhile, acclaimed director Kōji Yamamura – Oscar nominee and Annecy Crystal winner for MT. HEAD – will run two improvisation workshops, exploring the interplay between animation and sound.

Complementing the Japanese focus, industry insiders Levent Kotil and Ihabo Azzamo will discuss working from Germany on Japanese productions, while José Luis Gonzales Solis and Jessica Apel present a case study on APUKUNAPA KUTIMUYNIN, the first Peruvian anime film.

Stop-Motion: Symposium, Masterclasses, and Sandmännchen

FAB 2025 also features a symposium on stop-motion animation, aiming the spotlight at this analog craft. Besides Yashiro’s input, the event hosts established and emerging stop-motion filmmakers, with interactive sessions and a “Mini-Mitmach-Studio” (mini-participation studio) led by Sandmännchen director Stefan Schomerus. Here, festival-goers can try their hand at stop-motion, regardless of prior experience.

Industry Meetups: FAFF Anniversary, ASIFA at 65

As usual, FAB doubles as a host for partner festivals and institutions. London’s FAFF (Factual Animation Film Festival) celebrates its tenth anniversary at FAB with a “Best-Of” selection, while ASIFA – the International Animated Film Association – marks its 65th year by screening prize-winning student films in a free program.

For all details, and to keep up with the latest program releases, visit the FAB homepage.

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KitBash3D is giving away Gaea, a stylized medieval fantasy architecture pack, for free during March 2025. Designed for game development, VFX, and concept art, the set includes cathedrals, castles, villages, and bridges, built with a hand-painted aesthetic inspired by fantasy RPGs. The assets are modular, allowing for flexible world-building, and optimized for both real-time and offline rendering.

The pack is compatible with Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, 3ds Max, Unity, Unreal Engine, Houdini, Clarisse, FBX, and OBJ, integrating smoothly into most production pipelines. KitBash3D provides ready-to-use materials and shaders tailored for Unreal Engine, Blender, and Unity, ensuring assets look good out of the box.

To see all of Gaea for free in March, visit KitBash3D’s website. To grab the free version of the Kit, visit Fab.com Pricing after March is not specified, so download it before it’s gone.

Fact Check: Free assets are great, but always test them in production environments before committing to major projects.

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Epic Games continues to delight developers with its bi-weekly limited-time free content. The latest offerings, available until February 11th, include a versatile asset pack, a comprehensive environment, and an advanced interaction management system. These resources are designed to enhance your projects without denting your budget.

Delzaar Studio’s Clay Pots Collection: Adding Realism to Your Scenes For those seeking to enrich their scenes with detailed props, Delzaar Studio presents a collection of 25 clay pots. Each pot boasts a unique design with high-quality, hand-painted textures. The asset pack includes both low-poly and Nanite versions, ensuring compatibility across various platforms while maintaining visual fidelity. These pots can serve as subtle yet impactful elements, adding authenticity to your environments. For more information about Delzaar Studio and their amazing offerings, visit their official website.

SICKA DYNASTY: Crafting Authentic Asian Environments

Developed by SICKA, the SICKA DYNASTY asset pack provides a complete Asian-themed environment. It features optimized lighting and textures, allowing for immediate use or customization. The pack includes modular components and a variety of props, enabling creators to design unique maps and scenes with ease. Whether you’re aiming for historical accuracy or a stylized aesthetic, SICKA DYNASTY offers the flexibility needed for diverse projects.

Ultimate Interaction Manager: Streamlining User Interactions

Tala Esenlikler’s Ultimate Interaction Manager is a component-based, replicated system designed to transform any actor into an interactive object.It offers customizable settings, dynamic markers, widget pools, icons, and a point-of-interest system. Developers can create various types of interactions with runtime callbacks to handle results. The system is fully replicated on the server side, requiring only the replication of visuals for the interaction target. This tool simplifies the implementation of complex interactions, enhancing user engagement in your projects.

Act Fast: Download Before February 11th

These assets are available for free until February 11th. To download them, visit Fab’s Limited-Time Free Content. Remember, these offers are fleeting, so seize the opportunity to enhance your creative arsenal.

Note: While these assets are offered for free, it’s advisable to evaluate their suitability for your specific projects to ensure optimal integration.

P.S. And if you think the typo “pot” instead of “pots” in the headline is unfair pothead-baiting: Yes it is.

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Epic Games is kicking off its new bi-weekly asset drop initiative on Fab with an exclusive, free military airport environment created by FreshScan. Designed to integrate seamlessly with Unity and Unreal Engine, this comprehensive asset pack includes everything needed to build realistic, modular airport environments suitable for VFX, game development, and real-time graphics. No helicopters or planes, though.

A Closer Look at FreshScan’s Military Airport Environment

This initial drop offers a detailed set of assets for creating military-style airport scenes, including modular models for terminals, control towers, hangars, and runways. The pack features high-quality, PBR (physically based rendering) textures to ensure realism and depth, particularly in varying lighting setups common in CGI and real-time rendering. Available in formats like FBX and OBJ, the assets can be easily imported into most digital content creation software, making them a versatile addition to any creator’s toolkit.

For those working on interactive environments or cinematic pre-visualization, FreshScan’s modular approach allows for easy customization—whether retexturing specific sections or rearranging components to suit a project’s needs.

Epic’s Bi-Weekly Free Asset Drops on Fab

This airport release marks the start of Fab’s bi-weekly asset drop program, where new free assets will be available every two weeks. By releasing assets , Epic provides digital artists, game developers, and VFX professionals with a continuous stream of free resources, which helps support the fast-paced nature of production. Each drop will offer new environments, characters, and props designed to enhance workflows across multiple digital platforms. For exact release schedules, formats, and licensing details, visit the official Fab page.

Free and Ready to Download

This military airport environment is available now at no cost – available until November 19th. However, as with all new resources, it’s recommended that production artists test assets for performance stability before fully integrating them into large-scale projects. And, with the state of the world being what it is, we’ll surely need assets to create dystopian environments. Even for the news programmes.

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