Read excerpts of Jamie Cardoso's new book for free
Arch viz artist posts extracts from 3D Realism: Practical and Easy Workflows on his blog.
Monday, December 26th, 2011
3ds max
Maide Control: control Maya or 3ds Max via your iPad
Clever app lets users to navigate 3D scenes or apply modelling commands via the touch screen.
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
HDR Labs ships sIBL_GUI 4.0
Free tool for creating 'Smart IBL' setups for faster HDR renders gets new UI and performance boost.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Artur Leão releases iDevCam 1.5 for 3ds Max
Free update to the virtual camera control iPhone app gives smoother camera moves in every dimension.
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
iCube releases CityTraffic 2 plugin for 3ds Max
Free update to vehicle animation tool gets completely rewritten AI system for simulating traffic flow.
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
KeyShot to get native support for 3ds Max, Maya
New plugins will let easy-to-use real-time renderer to play nicely with DCC software, not just CAD apps.
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Marius Silaghi releases TopoRelax for 3ds Max
New modifier relaxes meshes without altering their volume: handy for sculpting and morph targets.
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 2.0 for 3ds Max
GPU-accelerated fluid simulator gets new tools for creating foam and splashes, better viewport preview.
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Read 100 3ds Max tips from Autodesk's Jamie Gwilliam
Autodesk UK's 3ds Max expert comes to the end of his 100-day tips marathon. Read the results here.
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Get Kaboom: free explosion tool for 3ds Max 2012
Laurent Renaud updates his animated shattering tool to work with 3ds Max 2012's MassFX physics.
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Autodesk buys point cloud developer Alice Labs
Creator of the Studio Clouds point cloud editing tool for 3ds Max and Maya enters the Autodesk empire.
Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Tree C Technology releases VR4MAX 7
New release of VR content-creation plug-in for 3ds Max adds custom atmosphere system, Lua scripting.
Friday, October 14th, 2011
r|shaders for 3ds Max ships
Updated: New demo available for Alessandro Cangelosi's collection of procedural shaders for ocean and ground surfaces.
Friday, October 14th, 2011