Nevercenter has released Milo, a new kind of standalone real-time renderer and VR viewer which is powered by Epic Games' Unreal Engine, alongside Silo 2021, a major new update to its 3D modeler.
 

 

Milo, available free with a purchase of Silo 2021, is an innovative new way to view, explore, light, render, and generally show off 3D models and designs, including in VR. Epic Games awarded Nevercenter a prestigious Mega Grant to aid in Milo’s development, due to its innovative use of the industry-leading Unreal Engine for hyper-realistic lighting, materials, shadows, and effects. Currently in Early Access and rapidly developing, it's the ideal tool for product shots, game asset visualization, ArchViz/architectural walkthroughs, portfolio renders, VR previews, turntable gifs for social media, and instantly showing off all your 3D creations in the best light possible.
 

 

Silo is a lightweight and lightning-fast 3D polygonal modeler and UV mapper, offering a deep, industry-grade toolset and easy-to-master workflow at an insanely affordable price. It's perfect for both hard surface and organic modeling for characters, product design, architecture, and more, featuring easy export to other apps and game engines like Unity and Unreal. For 2021, we've added blend shapes, variable SubD edge creasing, PBR materials setup, and much more. This is Silo’s largest feature update in years.

 

Silo and Milo feature a tight linking, where files saved in Silo are automatically updated in Milo. For example, an architect could update a 3D building design using Silo’s precise desktop interface while a client views the changes seamlessly inside a VR headset. Together, Silo and Milo make it possible to model, texture map, and render complete scenes and images, and fit in seamlessly in a larger workflow providing modeling and rendering upgrades to all-in-one apps like Maya and Blender.

 

Silo 2021 (with Milo) is available now as a cross-platfo...

Pixelmash has just been updated to v2020.2!

This is a smaller update focusing on "quality of life" features and bug fixes, based on things people have written in to request.

The update is FREE for all users who purchased Pixelmash from nevercenter.com within the last year; simply download the new version from the Pixelmash webpage. If you need to purchase an upgrade to your license (or want to check if you need to), you can do so at nevercenter.com/upgrade. Pixelmash is also available on Steam and via the Mac App Store.

Here are some of the new things you'll see in this release:

• Added tabbing between RGB color picker fields
• Added layer flip commands: Flip Layer Horizontal, Flip Layer Vertical
• "Toggle Reference Images" shortcut changed to Shift+Tab
• Bug fixes

Enjoy! As always, we love to hear from you—send us an email at pixelmash@nevercenter.com, or reach out via Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. We want to hear what you think so we can keep making this little app better, and we love to see what you are creating!

Best,
Nevercenter

     

Hey everyone,

We're officially restarting the Silo Beta Test Team!

Big things with Silo are in the works, so we need to put together an elite beta tester team with some good testers, which means we're calling out to the best ones we know: the fantastic Silo modeling community. :)

We want to put together a diverse beta team—and one that will cover a variety of setups/modeling styles. If you'd like to help us run THE NEXT VERSION OF SILO (hooray!) through its paces, head on over to https://nevercenter.com/silo/betateam and let us know you'd like to help out.

We are super excited to finally be here with Silo and to share what we've been working on. We are also really looking forward to your feedback, because the Silo community has always been a key strength in guiding Silo into becoming the tool that it is.

Thanks!
Jamchild, Feed, and Presque

CameraBag Photo and CameraBag Pro have been updated to v2020.4!

The update is FREE for all current CameraBag 2020 license holders. Get your free update wherever you purchased CameraBag 2020 originally: via the Mac App Store, Steam, or the Nevercenter website. If you haven't yet tried CameraBag 2020, this is also a great time to give it a try; you can download your own free trial from nevercenter.com.

Have an earlier version of CameraBag and want the 2020 upgrade? As a special offer to newsletter subscribers, you can follow this link here (or enter the promo code GET2020 at checkout) to save 15% on the either CameraBag Pro 2020 or CameraBag Photo 2020 at nevercenter.com. All purchases from the Nevercenter website include one full year of free CameraBag upgrades, no matter the version number.

New features in 2020.4 include:

• Aspect ratio adjustments now let you set custom values
• Crop tool enhancements:
  • Added numerical display of cropping pixel values
  • Crop aspect ratio is automatically locked to any existing tiles that specify an aspect ratio (e.g. exact size, aspect ratio tiles)
  • Other visual enhancements
• Improved startup speed

Enjoy! As always, we love to hear from you—send us an email at pixelmash@nevercenter.com, or reach out via Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. We want to hear your thoughts so we can keep updating with your requests, and we love to see what you are creating!

Best,
Nevercenter

     

Pixelmash, the dynamic-resolution pixel art & animated sprite editor, has just been updated to v2020.1.

The update is FREE for all users who purchased Pixelmash from nevercenter.com within the last year; simply download the new version from the Pixelmash webpage. If you need to purchase an upgrade to your license (or want to check if you need to), you can do so at nevercenter.com/upgrade. Pixelmash is also available on Steam and via the Mac App Store.

Here are some of the new things you'll see in this release:

• Added Boomerang and Reverse animation playback modes
• Added custom start and end frames for animations
• Added Zoom In and Zoom Out hotkeys
• Added UI button to add color to palette

Enjoy! As always, we love to hear from you—send us an email at pixelmash@nevercenter.com, or reach out via Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. We want to hear what you think so we can keep making this little app better, and we love to see what you are creating!

Best,
Nevercenter