Substance Designer is a node-based texture compositing tool that allows you to create Substance files or bitmap textures. You can use it to texture assets and also bake model information (ex: normal, displacement, curvature etc.). It contains a wide library of tools, materials and procedural effects to help you achieve your goals in a fully non-destructive workflow.

Substance Designer is a node-based texture compositing tool that allows you to create Substance files or bitmap textures. You can use it to texture assets and also bake model information (ex: normal, displacement, curvature etc.). It contains a wide library of tools, materials and procedural effects to help you achieve your goals in a fully non-destructive workflow.

Houdini FX combines superior performance and dramatic, ease-of-use to deliver a powerful and accessible 3D experience to VFX artists creating feature films, commercials or video games. With its procedural node-based workflow, Houdini lets you create more content faster to reduce timelines and enjoy enhanced flexibility in all your creative tasks. Houdini is perfect for Visual Effects artists and technical directors with its particle and dynamics environment. Houdini FX includes a complete toolset for studios that want to use it for other tasks such as lighting, animation or procedural modeling.

Esri has released CityEngine 2014, the latest version of its 3D urban design software. A new software developer kit (SDK) enables CityEngine procedural modeling technology to be used in popular 3D software such as Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, and SketchUp. CityEngine improves urban planning, architecture, and the modeling of urban environments, helping you make quality decisions while saving time and money.

Esri has released CityEngine 2013, the latest version of its 3D urban design software. A new software developer kit (SDK) enables CityEngine procedural modeling technology to be used in popular 3D software such as Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, and SketchUp. CityEngine improves urban planning, architecture, and the modeling of urban environments, helping you make quality decisions while saving time and money.