Toolchefs updates free open beta of Atoms Unreal
New UE4 plugin for Atoms Crowd promises to create large real-time crowd sims on consumer PCs.
Saturday, August 8th, 2020
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 3.4
See the new features in the Maya and Houdini crowd animation tool. Now free for low-budget projects.
Thursday, June 11th, 2020
Golaem ships Golaem 7.3
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
Golaem ships Golaem 7.0
Maya crowd animation software gets standalone crowd layout tool, plus new live link plugin for round-tripping shots to Unreal Engine.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019
Basefount ships Miarmy 7.0
Maya crowd simulation tool now supports a wider range of character rigs for crowd agents. Viewport and rendering performance improved.
Thursday, June 13th, 2019
Game engine and crowd tools devs win tech Emmy Awards
Creators of UE4 and Unity win 2019 Technology & Engineering awards, along with Massive, Golaem, Miarmy and Houdini.
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
AXYZ design ships anima 3.5
3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation plugin's new 'alive' technology synchronises cameras and geometry with the host app.
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018
Basefount ships Miarmy 6.5
Maya crowd animation tool gets layered caches for rigid body dynamics, new 'self clone' option to increase density in flocking sims.
Friday, August 24th, 2018
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 2.0
Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool gets big render speed boost, new behaviour modules, Python plugins system.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 1.15
Promising new crowd-simulation tool for Maya and Houdini gets support for cloth and dynamic fur.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
Basefount ships Miarmy 6.2
Maya crowd-simulation software gets new flocking system and simulation cache-editing options, plus support for layered caches.
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
Q&A: Atoms Crowd co-creator Daniele Federico
We chat to the former Framestore pipeline developer about his promising new Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool.
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018