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Check out the new features in the terrain generator, including new options for searching for and importing real-world terrain data.

Tuesday, December 15th, 2020

Big update to the standalone fluid simulation tool adds new smoke solver, option to upres sims, and 'complete procedural VDB toolkit'.

Monday, October 5th, 2020

Check out the new node-based architecture coming to Cinema 4D in the next release, along with support for USD and Python 3.

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

'Lightly restricted' new $499/year edition of Nuke Studio is aimed at freelance compositors. Find out how it compares to the full version.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Sizeable update to the free AAA game engine introduces new UI, plus white box testing and node-based landscape authoring tools.

Monday, July 20th, 2020

Versatile 3D particle system now supports volumetric rendering for effects like smoke, fire and dust.

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

Sizeable update to the multiphysics plugin adds new scene geometry queries, better Alembic support.

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020

Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out.

Sunday, January 26th, 2020

Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.

Monday, January 13th, 2020

GPU-accelerated painting app gets interesting new node-based workflow for creating images, plus support for unlimited 64K layers.

Monday, December 23rd, 2019

Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

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

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019