New 3ds Max script ends misery of poly pushing
Manipulate rows of edges as if they were Bezier curves with Marius Silaghi's intuitive Smooth Edges.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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Chaos Group announces Phoenix FD 2.0
3ds Max fluid-simulation plug-in to get foam, splashes and better GPU preview: sign up to beta test it now.
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Evermotion releases new unbiased renderer
Free open beta of NOX available even for commercial jobs. Includes plug-ins for 3ds Max and Blender.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
e-on ships Carbon Scatter for Maya and Cinema 4D
Previously Max-only instancing plug-in for creating natural environments goes multi-platform.
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Autodesk asks its users to 'Be Max' for viral ads
See Ken Pimentel, Allan McKay, Wayne Robson and other Max legends Spartacus it up on camera.
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Tutorial: the making of Optimus Prime
Luis Manuel 'Luima' Morillo explains how he created his 8-million-poly Transformers tribute in 3ds Max.
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Review: V-Ray 2.0
Jason Lewis takes the 3ds Max plug-in renderer's new materials, stereo options and GPU-accelerated preview for a test drive.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Allegorithmic releases free animated caustics map
Substance Caustics provides loopable caustic effects in 3ds Max 2012 and Maya 2012.
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Videos: watch a game level being created in Unity
See a first-person shooter created in timelapse, from technical design document to working build.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Video: ZSpheres for Max?
Subdivision Reversion's Marius Silaghi working on new script to add ZBrush-style armatures to 3ds Max.
Monday, June 6th, 2011
Allegorithmic ships grunge and normal-mapping tools
Texture specialist ships new grunge and CrazyBump-style toolkits, calls for requests for future tools.
Friday, May 27th, 2011
Video tutorial: create visual effects for Unreal Engine 3
Discover how to set up smoke effects with UDK and 3ds Max in this 20-minute video from Ubisoft's Maxime Deleris.
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Video: Indigo Renderer 3.0 goes GPU-accelerated
Unbiased renderer to support CUDA and OpenCL-powered real-time materials and camera editing.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011