Phoenix FD for Maya enters beta testing
V-Ray for Maya users can sign on for early access to Chaos Group's formerly Max-only fluid simulator.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
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Exocortex Technologies ships Alembic plugin suite
Make better use of the open-source data-interchange format in 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Arnold and more.
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Sneak peek: 3ds Max's new 'Send To' workflow
Updated: now with an actual video showing data transfer between Max and Maya as well as MotionBuilder.
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Sneak peek: 3ds Max's new MediaSync workflow
'Best interop with After Effects just got better' claims blog post for latest seven-minute preview video.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Evermotion adds instancing to NOX render engine
Latest update to the free unbiased renderer for 3ds Max and Blender rewrites entire geometry engine.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
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
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