Download four free 3ds Max particle tools

Get four pre-built Particle Flow templates from former Frantic Films TD Anselm von Seherr-Thoss.

Monday, June 11th, 2012

Unity Technologies ships Unity 3.5

Over 400 new features, updates and bugfixes, including Flash export and new 'Shuriken' particle system.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Unreal Engine 5.7 is here: see five key features for CG artists

See our pick of the features in the latest version of Unreal Engine, from the new procedural plant editor to updates to MetaHumans.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025

SideFX just released Houdini 21: check out its five key features

Read our pick of the changes in Houdini 21, from Copernicus and KineFX to new AI workflows - then see a list of all 300+ new features.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025

Sneak peek: Houdini 21

Read our list of 300+ new features due in the next version of Houdini - from Neural Point Surface for liquids to the Otis organic tissue solver.

Tuesday, August 5th, 2025

JangaFX releases LiquiGen 1.0

The real-time liquid simulator is now officially production-ready. Check out the new options for simulating deliciously viscous fluids.

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025

Dimension 5 releases D5 Render 2.11

Wide-ranging update to the architectural renderer adds AI PBR material generation, plus new scene layout, camera and lighting tools.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025

Open-source tool Infinigen Indoors generates procedural 3D interiors

Updated: free Blender-based tool generates 3D interiors, from rooms to entire houses. Check out its new Infinigen-Sim toolset.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

NVIDIA open-sources PhysX's GPU simulation code

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

Assetify 2.1 converts Blender assets to game-ready formats

Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

D5 Render 2.10 adds real-time path tracing

Major update to Dimension 5's real-time visualization software adds experimental path tracing system. Check out the other new features.

Thursday, March 6th, 2025

Check out the new features due in EmberGen 2.0

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Cell Fluids 2.0 for Blender is out

Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024