Understanding the Changes Coming in 2025 This video discusses Quixel Megascans, a popular asset library for Unreal Engine users, and the upcoming changes to its pricing model. While Megascans has been a free resource offering a vast collection of high-quality assets, it will no longer be entirely free starting in 2025. Here's a breakdown of the key takeaways:...
Make PBR materials from text descriptions, populate scenes, apply styles to renders, and more. Image credit: Chaos Chaos refuses to lag behind other companies in the AI industry and has shared a sneak peek at its upcoming technologies that will be useful for artists and game developers. Chaos claims that "it's never about machines replacing creativity but building...
3D scanning tools developer Kiri Innovations has released 3DGS Render, an open-source tool for visualizing 3D Gaussian Splats inside Blender. The add-on makes it possible to import 3DGS scans of real-world objects in PLY format and manipulate them in real time inside Blender, rendering them with the Eevee renderer. A new technique for generating 3D scans from images of...
Ali Siddiqui showed how to leverage UE5.4's new tools to create a realistic foliage growth FX. Ahead of the upcoming release of Unreal Engine 5.4, a new and improved version of the engine set to launch next month, 3D Artist and Designer Ali Siddiqui, also known as ali.3d, has shared a new insightful tutorial explaining how to set up a procedural foliage growth effect using...
Who May Need It? Game developers Who need to import FBX files into Blender and export FBX files to game engines. 3d digital artists Who need to share your 3d artworks to other 3d digital artists who use other 3d softwares, or you want to sell your 3d artworks in various digital markets. What is it? Blender is lack of native FBX support, when we import some older and newer FBX files, it...