Tyson Ibele releases tyFlow for 3ds Max in free open beta
Hotly tipped replacement for 3ds Max's Particle Flow toolset provides fast, multithreaded multiphysics.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
physics
Check out Chaos, UE4's new 'Hollywood physics' system
Video: see the new destruction toolset due in Unreal Engine 4.23. Cloth, character physics to follow.
Thursday, March 21st, 2019
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.18
Sizeable update to the game engine extends support for PhysX, and adds new animation and texture-processing functionality.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.11 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into interactive web applications adds support for Bullet physics sims.
Friday, March 8th, 2019
RayFire Studios releases RayFire 1.83 for 3ds Max
3ds Max demolition plugin's neat new interactive workflow removes the need to pre-shatter meshes.
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
Reallusion ships iClone 7.4 and launches iClone Open
New open Python API will let developers create custom tools for the real-time animation software.
Sunday, January 6th, 2019
Realsoft ships Realsoft 3D 8
One of the oldest 3D applications gets updated for current Hi-DPI displays and multicore CPUs, and gains a photon mapping system.
Friday, December 28th, 2018
Sneak peeks: Unity's Visual Effect Graph and CineCast
See Unity's new framework for authoring complex GPU-driven FX and nifty 'synthetic director' system.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
Adobe releases Character Animator CC 2.0
New update adds AI-driven tool for transferring the art style of any source image to your animation.
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Notch Builder lets you author motion graphics in real time
Interesting new tool lets users link cloners, particles, fluids and volumetrics and see the results rendered on the fly.
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2018's technical papers
See our pick of the show's hottest research - from AI-driven animation to amazing simulation techniques.
Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.4 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes to browser apps gets new physics module, support for skeletal animation in 3ds Max.
Wednesday, June 6th, 2018
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.13
Free game engine gets experimental support for Nvidia's PhysX real-time physics system, more integrated cloud functionality.
Monday, March 26th, 2018