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Get Tomáš Búran's free 3D scans of fruit, veg and bakery products, with five LODs and 4K PBR textures. For commercial use.

Sunday, August 11th, 2019

VFX house MagicPictures Studio's OpenVDB-based meshing and Bullet physics tools now available as 3ds Max plugins.

Monday, August 5th, 2019

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Big update introduces new visual programming system for physics simulations, with new fire, smoke and snow solvers.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Free Substance generates custom cloth materials inside Substance Designer or Substance Painter.

Sunday, July 21st, 2019

Free update to real-time archviz software improves Collada import, adds 50+ wood and brick materials. Pro users get new plant models.

Tuesday, June 25th, 2019

CryEngine 5.6 to add layered microfacet materials. CryEngine 5.7 to see real-time ray tracing, big animation update.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Hotly tipped replacement for 3ds Max's Particle Flow toolset provides fast, multithreaded multiphysics.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019

Download texture maps of natural and man-made materials at up to 4K resolution under a CC0 licence.

Sunday, March 24th, 2019

Open-source game engine gets new Boolean modelling system, soft body dynamics, plus revamped 2D and 3D animation toolsets.

Thursday, March 14th, 2019

Real-time physics system now available under a 3-clause BSD licence on PCs and mobile devices.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

Real-time visualisation tool gets new toolsets for sky lighting, rain, grass and fur in the Pro edition; better workflow in the base edition.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2018