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

Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22

Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.

Monday, September 10th, 2018

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R20

Now available: Update adds node based material system, volume modelling, MoGraph fields, and multi-pass rendering on the GPU.

Monday, September 3rd, 2018