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crowd simulation

Maya crowd-simulation software gets new flocking system and simulation cache-editing options, plus support for layered caches.

Thursday, April 5th, 2018

We chat to the former Framestore pipeline developer about his promising new Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool.

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018

Maya crowd simulation tool gets new 'brain share' feature for AI agents, improved Direct Logic engine and instancing system.

Friday, December 1st, 2017

Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D gets new Unreal Engine plugin, multi-scene loader, physically based render engine.

Friday, November 24th, 2017

Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

Heavyweight crowd simulator to get new 'universal plugin' to allow compatibility to 'all major' 3D apps.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

Maya crowd animation tool gets new options for creating custom AI, support for traffic simulation, plus new dynamic emission system.

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

Simulate large scenes up to 20x faster with the Maya crowd tool's new intelligent instancing system. Redshift support also now added.

Friday, June 23rd, 2017

See our pick of the show's hottest research - from cutting-edge fluid sims to ways to model tentacles.

Monday, June 19th, 2017

3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation tool gets new mask based character variation system, Collada and V-Ray scene export.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2017

Maya crowd simulation software gets new blendshape pipeline for handling facial animation, plus new tools for editing simulation caches.

Monday, February 20th, 2017

See amazing work being created with the Maya crowd simulator, including epic VFX from Ant-Man and San Andreas.

Thursday, January 19th, 2017

Update to Maya crowd simulator helps automate collision avoidance and path following in 3D space.

Monday, January 16th, 2017