13+ hour, 43+ min ago  (433+ words) Library Manager adds a single interface for discovering, installing, and managing open-source and commercial Houdini libraries. That matters because library installs rarely fail in exciting ways. They fail in slow, petty ways, like a missing file, a wrong path, or…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (360+ words) For those who don't know the tool: Unity is a realtime game engine that ships to desktop and consoles, and Platform Toolkit sits in the build and platform integration layer, so your release pipeline spends less time arguing with targets…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (484+ words) For those who don't know the tool: OpenPBR sits in the material and shading layer, feeding lookdev and final-frame rendering. It can travel between CPU and shader code thanks to a shared macro layer, and it plugs neatly into a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (378+ words) SKAP is an online service built to boost skin detail for digital heads used in VFX and games. The workflow starts from what most teams already have: a head model plus textures in the 2K to 8K range. From that input, SKAP…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (226+ words) OmniStep is designed for scene exploration and interactive animation. Users can move through a scene using first person controls, with parameters such as speed, gravity, friction, and acceleration adjustable in the add-on settings. Walk and fly modes are available, allowing…...

2+ mon, 14+ hour ago  (870+ words) For those who don't know the tool: Export Helper Pro is a Blender add-on sitting at the very end of asset creation, handling outbound exports to game engines like Unity, Unreal and Godot, with presets that reduce clicks and regret....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (355+ words) For those who don't know the tool: The open-source Godot Engine is a cross-platform game engine widely used for interactive 2D and 3D content creation. Godot 4.6 is shifting focus toward workflow polish, production-ready defaults and deeper rendering and tool enhancements. Reflection probes…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (428+ words) For those who don't now the tool: HydroFX is a standalone GPU-based FLIP liquid simulator from Storm VFX, designed to generate water simulations for downstream use in DCC tools via Alembic, USD and OpenVDB. It does not render, shade or…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (236+ words) EZ-Tree is a free, open source procedural tree generator that exports 3D trees as GLB or PNG and runs in browser or via NPM. Free Browser Based Procedural Tree Generator Released EZ-Tree is a procedural tree generation tool written in JavaScript…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (126+ words) The Substrate framework for modular material authoring and rendering has graduated to production-ready status. It enables layering of physically accurate material types such as clear coat, metal, cloth, and skin, producing more realistic composite surfaces. For material and look-dev teams,…...