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crowd simulation

3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine crowd animation tool gets GPU decoding for faster playback on Nvidia graphics cards.

Wednesday, December 30th, 2020

Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

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Monday, November 30th, 2020

New UE4 plugin for Atoms Crowd promises to create large real-time crowd sims on consumer PCs.

Saturday, August 8th, 2020

Master the crowd simulation tool with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive 11-hour tutorial.

Saturday, July 18th, 2020

Can't wait for Houdini 18.5? Check out the neat new topology transfer and rendering options available in Houdini 18 today.

Wednesday, July 8th, 2020

See the new features in the Maya and Houdini crowd animation tool. Now free for low-budget projects.

Thursday, June 11th, 2020

Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

Major update to Houdini adds new look dev and layout system Solaris, USD-native renderer Karma, new modelling and simulation tools.

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

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

Maya crowd simulation tool now supports a wider range of character rigs for crowd agents. Viewport and rendering performance improved.

Thursday, June 13th, 2019

Creators of UE4 and Unity win 2019 Technology & Engineering awards, along with Massive, Golaem, Miarmy and Houdini.

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

Hotly tipped replacement for 3ds Max's Particle Flow toolset provides fast, multithreaded multiphysics.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019