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NVIDIA just released a new version of their free Texture Tools. Texture Tools is a handy tool for compressing textures, generating MIP, normal and cube maps and more. It also includes a Photoshop plugin and can be driven from a command line interface.Details from the NVIDIA developer site:Today, we’re releasing the free NVIDIA Texture Tools […]
Hot on the heels of Quixel Bridge 2020, Quixel have just released Mixer 2020. Just like Bridge 2020, Mixer 2020 has also been made completely free! This version contains a massively updated UI, a revamped 3D brush system, the Smart Material system and most importantly, the ability to directly paint on your own imported meshes, […]
ArmorPaint is an open source competitor to Substance Painter, from the creator of the Armory game engine (tutorial series available here). It is available for just 16 Euro in binary form, but can also be built from source code. This guide walks you step by step through the process of building ArmorPaint from source.There are […]
PixelORama is a free, open source (MIT licensed) pixel art application written using the Godot game engine in GDScript. Version 0.5 was just recently released with the following features:Choosing between 6 tools – pencil, eraser, fill bucket, lighten/darken, color picker and rectangle select – and mapping them to both of your left and right mouse […]
Today we are checking out Laigter, a free tool that enables you to perform special effects on sprites quickly and easily. Even better, the source code is available on GitHub under the GPL 3.0 license.Laigter is described as:This tool lets you generate normal maps for 2D textures, with little effort. Specially designed for Sprites in […]
Serif have just released version 1.7 of both of their flagship applications, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. These tools provide excellent alternatives to Adobe products such as Photoshop and Illustrator with a much lower, pay once price tag. The 1.7 update applies to all platforms, Windows, Mac and iOS.Affinity Photo changes:Big performance increases across Mac, […]
Instead of reporting the April 1st “news”, today we are instead going to look at a pair of excellent free texturing tools that run entirely in your browser, Normal Map Online and Texture Generator Online. Normal Map online can be sued to create normal, displacement, ambient occlusion and specular maps from a simple height map […]
With the recent announcement that Allegorithmic is being purchased by Adobe suddenly one of the most asked questions is “what is the best alternative to Substance Painter”? Sadly, no direct replacement exists, Substance Painter was a pretty one of a kind program. Fortunately there are a number of other PBR texture painting packages available. We […]
Materialize was just released for free. What exactly is Materialize? In the creators own words:Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images. You can create an entire material from a single image or import the textures you have and generate the textures you need.Materialize is production tested, having […]
Adobe have just released Adobe Animate CC 2019, the product previously known as Flash Professional. This vector graphics drawing and animation package gained a number of new features in the 2019 release including auto lip syncing, new free form mesh deformations, webGL gltf export (in beta), improved export options, a new launch window and more.New […]
