January 19, 2023
Check out the new features in the 3ds Max and Maya fluid simulator, including the option to deform sims with native 3ds Max modifiers. Read More »
December 15, 2022
Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair. Read More »
December 12, 2022
Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence. Read More »
December 12, 2022
Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds. Read More »
November 8, 2022
GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time. Read More »
October 28, 2022
Big update to the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver adds native support for CUDA, Metal and Apple Silicon. Read More »
October 10, 2022
Cinematic effects plugin for Photoshop can now render particle animations over still images to create looping cinemagraphs. Read More »
September 19, 2022
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer gets new dedicated smoke and fire material, plus temporal denoising. Read More »
August 25, 2022
Major update turns the gaseous fluid simulator into a full motion graphics and multiphysics toolkit. Read More »
August 17, 2022
Hardware-accelerated ray tracer gets new NPR render modes. Runs on AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs. Read More »
August 9, 2022
'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x. Read More »
July 21, 2022
Read a detailed run-down of new features in the procedural 3D app, including updates to simulation, creature effects, Solaris and Karma. Read More »
July 18, 2022
See a full list of new features in the next version of Houdini, including updates to creature effects, fluid simulation, Solaris and Karma. Read More »
July 13, 2022
Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer. Read More »
July 12, 2022
Check out the new features coming to the real-time fluid simulator's GPU particle system, including motion trails and 'force masking'. Read More »
July 6, 2022
Popular add-on for baking fluid simulations to flipbooks and flowmaps in UE4 and UE5 is free during July 2022. Read More »
June 17, 2022
Promising motion graphics add-on gets support for rendering volumetrics like smoke and clouds. Read More »
May 26, 2022
Standalone granular fluid, liquid and smoke simulation tool now supports cloth and soft bodies. Read More »
May 10, 2022
EmberGen creator's hotly tipped upcoming real-time liquid simulator now generates foam and spray. Read More »
May 3, 2022
Free asset pack for the Inferno Challenge art contest includes nine 2K effects clips of fire and smoke. Commercial use. Read More »
