Chaos Group ships V-Ray for Softimage
New Softimage port of the industry-standard renderer now out of beta and available for use.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
3ds max
Marius Silaghi releases Form 1.0 for 3ds Max
New plugin adds ZSphere-alike modelling tools to 3ds Max for quickly roughing out organic forms.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Autodesk previews new Deformable Poly for 3ds Max
New object type to offer faster, more controllable deformations on heavy multi-million-polygon meshes?
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Sneak peek: 3ds Max's new mCloth cloth sim system
New video shows cloth, particles and rigid bodies interacting via 3ds Max's MassFX unified simulations.
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Control Maya or 3ds Max by iPhone with CadRemote
Maide releases free iPhone app for navigating 3D software. Mouse control and sketch tools cost $2.99.
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Harmonise your renders with Vizpark's Color Tools
New 3ds Max plugin automatically assigns common colours from a source image to your 3D scene.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Marius Silaghi releases Projection Painter for Max
New plugin exports snapshots of your model to Photoshop for painting, then reprojects them in 3D.
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Wayne Robson creates free FiberMesh-to-Max plugin
You wait a week for a tool to convert ZBrush 4R2b hair to splines, then two come along at once.
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Render ZBrush hair in Max with FiberMesh to Splines
Updated: Export hair created with the recent ZBrush 4R2b update to 3ds Max - and now Maya and Blender.
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Thinkbox releases XMesh
Developer releases new animated geometry caching system for 3ds Max; Maya and Softimage to come.
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Exotic Matter releases Naiad Buddy for 3ds Max
3ds Max import/export toolset for the fluid simulator now in alpha. Maya and Houdini versions also available.
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Ryan Smith releases free beta of TreeGen for 3ds Max
Useful script creates custom trees for game use, with over 35 settings to control leaves and branches.
Monday, January 16th, 2012
3DAliens ships GPU-based version of glu3D for Max
Fluid dynamics plugin for 3ds Max updated to take advantage of CUDA-based graphics cards.
Friday, January 13th, 2012