Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Autodesk unveils Maya 2019.2 and Bifrost for Maya

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

Tuesday, July 30th, 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

NewTek ships LightWave 2019.1

Free quality-of-life update adds new navigation modes in Layout and Modeler, improvements to FBX interchange and the UE4 bridge.

Tuesday, July 16th, 2019

Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 2.5

LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets new foam and white water system; improved memory usage.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019

cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.8

3ds Max particle and multiphysics system gets over 30 new nodes for working with volume data in OpenVDB format.

Monday, July 1st, 2019

Intel unveils HdOSPRay and OpenVKL

New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Academy Software Foundation to host OpenEXR, OpenCue

Industry open-source initiative to 'support and drive collaboration' around OpenCue render manager.

Friday, May 3rd, 2019

NewTek ships LightWave 2019

Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

Next Limit releases RealFlow | 3ds Max 1.0

Create RealFlow simulations inside 3ds Max with the new cut-down plugin version of the fluid simulator.

Thursday, November 29th, 2018

Next Limit releases RealFlow | Maya 1.1

First update to the Maya edition of RealFlow adds Visualizer daemon to preview forces in the viewport.

Monday, November 5th, 2018

thinkingParticles 6.7 ships

Big update to the 3ds Max particle plugin's fluid simulation tools adds new options for generating waves, water levels and diffusion effects.

Wednesday, October 17th, 2018

Insydium ships the X-Particles 2018 public release

Subscriber update to the Cinema 4D particle simulation tool promises 16x faster particle collisions and 2.5x faster fluid sims.

Friday, October 12th, 2018