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New rendering tools, VR versions and more come at us on the week of E3. Of course, E3 is more of a matter of game news anyways... VTime, Social VR With Any Hardware VTime is a virtual reality app that lets you hang out with your friends. The latest update introduced support for Oculus Rift. Previously, you could "only" use it with Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard - so basically, with easily accessible, relatively...

This week we have game engine updates, VR going huge and exciting new game announcements! FIFA 17 On Frostbite Engine FIFA is a longlasting series of football/soccer games, and now it's moving to the Frostbite engine. That's the same engine developed by EA studio DICE, and it runs many of the publisher's games, from Battlefield to the next Mass Effect. So far, this seems to be the least violent game to be built on it-...

Let’s take a look at the behavior of buyers who do buy models from several categories and how those categories relate to each other! The thickness of the line indicates how often the same buyers bought from related categories. The size of the nodes denote the buyers’ interest in the category in general. Low Polygon Models For example, buyers who buy character models are often also interested in animal and weapon models - useful categories...

New software versions, new 3D printing tricks VR time travel apps greet us this week! V-Ray 3.4 for 3DS Max And Maya A fresh new version of V-Ray has been released. V-Ray 3.4 for 3DS Max and Maya offers quite a few improvements. V-Ray Denoiser cuts noise - automatically and non-destructively - to reduce rendering time to up to 50%! It can be used progressively while rendering or applied afterwards, and supports animation and other...

The newest CGTrader community members have shown their skills and uploaded many models to the May First Model challenge! The challenge is over and we have selected the winners! The absolute winner will get both Colimo and RealPerceptionOFX by MotivaCG while the runner-ups will be able to choose which of the two pieces of software do they want to get. We're also throwing in some free sales! Best Models #1 Baker Sausalito Lounge Chair by...

Tanks, guns, blasters, jet fighters - you modeled them all! And some of your were victorious! VR Military challenge is over! We have selected one winner and two runner-ups for the title of Best Model. We also have a winner and a runner-up in the Best Portfolio category! What will our champions get as their spoils of conquest? Well, he have computer-bound brighter3d Pro SketchUp Plug-in licenses, AC3D modeling software, rigging software licenses for The...

Have you ever wondered how your sales stack up to the rest of CGTrader? How is the low polygon industry doing? What information does CGTrader have at their fingertips? Fortunately for you, it's time for us to part the veil and impart some important data to you! If you read this snazzy infographic, you will learn about the liquidity of low poly models, model categories that are facing high demand or high supply, the best...

Google’s advice on building VR apps VR applications are just entering the market and it will definitely take some time for the developers to understand what is working and what is not. However, with the announcement of Daydream, Google is trying to help creatives out by providing some insights from their internally carried panels. So here are their first tips: Allow users to use tools in VR. VR users are not limited to screen and...

CGTrader has some great news for all of our engineers out there! We have entered into a partnership with TraceParts, the leading supplier for 3D models of parts and components that engineers used in their CAD designs. 3D parts in a multitude of formats will now be available for free download on CGTrader. TraceParts catalogues are immediately beneficial to any engineer working with CAD designs. Gone are days of slaving over manuals and design specifications...

The May has been kind to us with the good weather (hopefully, wherever you are!), 500 000th model published on our site, and an awesome of-it's-summer-after-this feeling. It has also been good in terms of great quality model packages - and now these are the ones worth taking a note! Let's wrap this month up with 9 best Low-poly asset collections. Game Ready Tree Collection by lowpolymall Boasting 30 different type of trees, all the...