Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021

Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

Get Shawn Olson's Wall Worm plugins for 3ds Max for free

Download the handy free suite of modelling, texturing and layout tools for 3ds Max game artists.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020

Autodesk ships Mudbox 2020

Smallest annual update to the sculpting software in recent history adds one new feature - a data link to Flame - and just two bugfixes.

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

StemCell converts 3ds Max, Maya files to UE4 and Unity

Updated: TurboSquid tech converts files in the native format of one 3D app to that of another. Now also exports USDZ files.

Thursday, December 5th, 2019

Pixologic ships ZBrush 2020

Major free update to the sculpting app adds new history-aware brushes, option to paint or sculpt on the UV unwrap of a model.

Wednesday, November 13th, 2019

Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2020 product roadmap

See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3

Friday, September 27th, 2019

Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.14 for 3ds Max and Blender

Tool for converting 3D scenes into web apps now exports interactive parametric models to your browser.

Tuesday, August 27th, 2019

Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 5.0.4 for 3ds Max

Gaseous fluid simulator can now use 3ds Max 2020.1's detachable viewports as floating previews.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019

Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.13 for 3ds Max and Maya

Fluid simulation tools get support for VDB particle caches. FLIP liquid simulations now 'up to 2x' faster.

Thursday, March 28th, 2019

Autodesk unveils 3ds Max roadmap for future updates

Proposed features include new procedural layout tools, animation retargeting, automated retopology.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

iToo Software ships Forest Pack 6.3 for 3ds Max

Scattering plugin adds option to edit distribution and colour of objects during interactive renders.

Friday, February 1st, 2019

Sneak peek: check out FumeFX's new ocean simulation toolset

Video: check out the upcoming NodeWorks: Ocean tools in the smoke, fire, liquids and multiphysics simulation plugin for 3ds Max.

Monday, July 7th, 2025

Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

See how AMD's flagship 64-core workstation CPU performs in Jason Lewis's real-world CG benchmarks.

Thursday, May 28th, 2020