Thinkbox Software ships XMesh MY
New Maya version of the 3ds Max plugin for caching animated geometry speeds up work in mixed pipelines.
Monday, December 9th, 2013
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3d-io releases Spotmask for 3ds Max
Relight and retexture animations in post without rerendering with this nifty set of mental ray render elements.
Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4.5
Update to the GPU-based renderer adds progressive rendering. Modo and Softimage editions mooted.
Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Glare Technologies ships Indigo Renderer 3.6
Unbiased renderer gets shadow catcher material, spherical camera, better integration with 3ds Max.
Friday, November 15th, 2013
Autodesk Labs launches Project Khan
Free cloud-based system based on Donya Labs' Simplygon technology automates creation of LOD assets for games.
Thursday, November 14th, 2013
Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs 2013
Jason Lewis puts 11 of the leading current workstation graphics cards through a battery of real-world tests.
Thursday, November 7th, 2013
Autodesk releases Autodesk Remote
Free tool for users on subscription contracts lets you drive any Autodesk product from a remote computer.
Sunday, October 27th, 2013
Cl3ver rolls out Cl3ver 1.1
Online tool for creating interactive 3D content gets new script and material editors, support for larger scenes.
Friday, October 4th, 2013
Autodesk announces 2014 Extension releases
Updated: Max, Maya and Mudbox extensions now available: nothing for Softimage or MotionBuilder this time.
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
Arion 2.5 to add new Caustics and Shadows AOVs
Now shipping: update also boosts raytracing speed, maximum render size, adds link to HDR Light Studio.
Monday, September 30th, 2013
Eloi Andaluz releases Demolition Master 1.6
3ds Max destruction plugin adds support for proxies, Bullet physics. The demo video is a lot of fun, too.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4
Updated: GPU-accelerated renderer gets physically based GI, multi-GPU support, new 3ds Max edition.
Sunday, September 15th, 2013
See the Creation Real-Time Renderer running in 3ds Max
Updated: See Fabric Engine's VFX renderer power a custom per-pixel camera projection tool inside Max.
Thursday, September 12th, 2013