fire simulation

Chaos releases Phoenix 5.2

Check out the new features in the 3ds Max and Maya fluid simulator, including new options for directing liquids. Sims now 'up to 20%' faster.

Wednesday, July 12th, 2023

Insydium ships Fused 2023.3

Major update to the Cinema 4D plugins includes new versions of X-Particles, NeXus, plant generator Taiao and terrain tool TerraformFX.

Wednesday, July 5th, 2023

Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2023.2

3D animation and motion graphics app gets new Thicken generator, updates to Pyro simulations and the Commander.

Thursday, March 30th, 2023

Zibra AI unveils ZibraVDB compression

Now in alpha: new AI technology compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2023.1

3D design and animation software gets new smoke and fire simulation system and native Redshift camera.

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

Nvidia open-sources PhysX 5

Download the source code for the latest version of the real-time physics SDK, along with smoke and fire simulation system Flow 2.0.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2022

Insydium releases NeXus

New GPU-accelerated particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation system for CInema 4D runs on AMD, Apple Silicon, Nvidia GPUs.

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022