Unity Technologies has announced the acquisition of ProBuilder, a set of simplified poly modelling editing and UV tools that enable users to design, prototype and test levels in the Unity Editor. Key features include the ability to extrude and inset faces, several procedural shapes including stairs for navigation, in-scene UV controls, and editable shapes that can be extruded and further edited using poly-modelling tools. (more...)

Thinkinetic has released a new Maya version of their massive rigid body dynamics solver and fracturing plugin. New shatter features include Acquire Shatter to transfer a current shatter pattern to another object including animation keys, a Shatter option for using a volume shape as source, updated Jagginess which is now independent of the original mesh tessellation, a new soften edges UI parameter for Jagginess to adjust the roughness of jaggy edges, and a new option to apply jaggines to broken fragments only. (more...)