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Check out the latest features in the particle and physics plugin, including the new Explosion Tool and 160+ new scripting functions.

Friday, May 16th, 2025

GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time.

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022

GPU-accelerated spectral renderer gets new dedicated smoke and fire material, plus temporal denoising.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

Check out the new GPU-based real-time fire and smoke simulator, now available in free public beta.

Tuesday, March 15th, 2022

New free edition of the 3ds Max production renderer lacks hybrid CPU/GPU and network rendering, but can be used commercially.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

3ds Max renderer gets support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, plus GPU memory sharing via NVLink.

Saturday, March 14th, 2020

Old production edition of the renderer now updated for Maya 2018 and free for commercial use.

Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

3ds Max production renderer adds support for Nvidia's AI-based OptiX denoising system, hybrid CPU/GPU texture baking, adaptive sampling.

Friday, March 30th, 2018

3ds Max particle tool gets neat new 'All Purpose Fields' to help art direct simulations, OpenVDB support.

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Long-awaited physically accurate hybrid CPU/GPU renderer ships after six years in development.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

Subscription Drop 2 for the 3ds Max physics plugin adds new smoke solver, direct particle rendering.

Tuesday, August 18th, 2015

Updated: First 'Subscription Drop' extends volumeBreak node and new procedural spline modelling toolset.

Sunday, December 21st, 2014