Corona Renderer 1.3 for 3ds Max ships
Sizeable update adds new layered material, animated proxies, vector displacement, better anisotropy.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
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Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 4.0 for 3ds Max
First update to top gaseous fluid simulator in three years boosts speed, adds new tools for art directing sims.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Raylight Games releases XrayUnwrap 2.0 for 3ds Max
Inexpensive one-click UV unwrapping tool gets new options for selecting and organising UVs and handling seams.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
Autodesk Labs unveils Autodesk Raytracer for Max
Free tech preview offers 'easy-to-use physically based rendering' in 3ds Max, both locally and in the cloud.
Thursday, October 8th, 2015
Fabric Software ships Fabric Engine 2
Create complex CG tools without coding with Fabric's long-awaited new visual programming system.
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
Shoran Software releases RenderPal 2.12
Renderfarm manager gets support for multiple jobs in the Submitter; new Max and Maya-specific options.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
Download Ahmed Shalaby's crazy free horse rig
Make horses do handstands with this cool free squash-and-stretch quadruped rig for 3ds Max.
Thursday, September 17th, 2015
Unity 5.2 ships
Game engine adds support for Windows 10, native integration with Visual Studio, plus new lightmap baking and Biped import options.
Friday, September 11th, 2015
Ephere unveils Lucid for 3ds Max
New work-in-progress plugin implements Nvidia's GPU-based FleX multiphysics system in Max.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
LuxRender 1.5 ships
Now officially shipping: Open-source renderer gets major speed boosts, support for AOVs. New 3ds Max exporter to come.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Raylight Games releases EasySkin 1.0 for 3ds Max
Handy-looking plugin reorganises Max's UI to speed up skinning workflow, adds new 'bubble' envelope system.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
Massive Software announces Massive 8.0
Update will let users simulate 20,000 AI-driven crowd characters in real time. New 3ds Max plugin coming too.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.2
Subscription Drop 2 for the 3ds Max physics plugin adds new smoke solver, direct particle rendering.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2015