Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.0
Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.
Friday, July 20th, 2018
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Epic Games previews new features in Unreal Engine 4.20
Update to add new level streaming, instancing and LOD features, plus replay system created for Fortnite.
Saturday, March 24th, 2018
SiNi Software releases Scatter for 3ds Max as free beta
Promising new scattering plugin aims to provide an artist-friendly way to create very large scenes.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
Unity now comes with ProBuilder built in for free
Popular level design and modelling tool now part of Unity 2018.1 after buyout of original devs ProCore.
Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
Download SideFX's free Physics Painter tool for Houdini
Neat free tool lets you scatter objects across a terrain and have them settle naturally under the influence of gravity.
Tuesday, December 26th, 2017
Appleseed renderer gets new native Maya plugin
Version 1.8 of the open-source physically based renderer also adds procedural objects, render-time instancing.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
Basefount ships Miarmy 6.0
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new 'brain share' feature for AI agents, improved Direct Logic engine and instancing system.
Friday, December 1st, 2017
Isotropix releases Clarisse 3.5
Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.
Monday, July 31st, 2017
e-on software to can Carbon Scatter, CloudFactory Ozone
2017 editions of the scattering and cloud-creation plugins, now on 'pre-release', will be the last to ship.
Wednesday, July 19th, 2017
Basefount ships Miarmy 5.5
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
PSOFT ships Pencil+ 4
Popular 3ds Max cel-shading plugin gets support for material transparency; now works with XRefs and the Nitrous viewport.
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
Ephere releases Ornatrix V5 for 3ds Max
Hair, fur and feathers plugin can now generate hair from particles. New grooming and LOD workflows.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Redshift devs release Redshift for Houdini
New integration plugin for the GPU renderer supports Houdini's native primitives, instancing and volumes.
Saturday, February 18th, 2017