Ephere releases Ornatrix 3ds Max 9
Check out the changes to the 3ds Max hair plugin for games and VFX, including a new Warp Roots modifier to help groom feathers.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
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Ephere releases Ornatrix Maya 5
Check out the changes to the Maya plugin for creating hair and fur for games and VFX, including fast new workflows for braiding hair.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Ephere's Ragnar is an AI copilot for 3ds Max
Control Max with text commands: type in a description of what you want to create and have this GPT-based plugin do the work for you.
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Ephere releases Ornatrix 8 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the hair and fur plugin, including a point-and-click groom-creation system, and the option to 'box' operators.
Friday, December 15th, 2023
Ephere releases Ornatrix Maya v4
Maya hair plugin's Graft Grooms system makes it possible to create entire hair grooms in a few clicks.
Friday, March 31st, 2023
Check out the new features coming up in Redshift 3.0
Check out the new features in the latest experimental build of the GPU production renderer.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
AMD unveils Radeon ProRender 2.0
SDK update to the free, hardware-agnostic GPU renderer promises faster rendering on CPU plus GPU.
Monday, May 18th, 2020
Ephere ships Ornatrix V6 for 3ds Max
Popular hair and fur plugin gets new physics, clumping and braiding toolsets, native support for Arnold.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Ephere releases Ornatrix for Maya v2
Big update to hair plugin adds new physics system, clumping controls, option to generate woven fabrics.
Monday, June 11th, 2018
Ephere releases Ornatrix 1.3 for Maya
Popular hair-creation plugin gets new tools for generating realistic mesh hair, new dynamics options.
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017
Ephere releases Ornatrix V5 for 3ds Max
Hair, fur and feathers plugin can now generate hair from particles. New grooming and LOD workflows.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Ephere releases Ornatrix for Maya
Popular 3ds Max hair plugin now out for Maya. Supports Nucleus physics and Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift and RenderMan rendering.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
Ephere releases Lucid Physics for 3ds Max
Neat new GPU-accelerated multiphysics system based on Nvidia's FleX simulates anything from foam to jam.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016