Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 4.0 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulator gets new rigid body solver and texture UVW system. 3ds Max edition now integrated with thinkingParticles.
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
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Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 2.5
LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets new foam and white water system; improved memory usage.
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.3
Updated: Autodesk discusses how the new Fluids simulation toolset stacks up against Bifröst in Maya.
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017
Autodesk ships Maya 2018
Viewport 2.0 becomes the primary viewport; new features added to the MASH motion graphics and Bifröst fluid simulation toolsets.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2017
Side Effects Software unveils Houdini roadmap
New features in Houdini 16 likely to include guided fluid sims, new muscle system, 'ground-up rewrite' of the node networks.
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
Discover the new features in Maya 2016
Videos: see the new sculpting tools, Delta Mush deformer, updates to Bifrost and revamped Hypershade.
Monday, April 13th, 2015
Cool tech demo: the Project Proteus fluid simulator
Check out this physically based, 100% parallelised 'next-gen' fluid simulator, soon available in beta.
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
Insydium announces X-Particles 2.5 for Cinema 4D
Powerful particle plugin adds new Fragmenter object, particle painting, plus wet maps, spray and foam.
Friday, November 15th, 2013
Videos: technical advances from Siggraph 2012
See the coolest research on show: from new fluid sims to a tool to turn your doodles into artists' drawings.
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
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
Chaos Group announces Phoenix FD 2.0
3ds Max fluid-simulation plug-in to get foam, splashes and better GPU preview: sign up to beta test it now.
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Unity 3.2 adds new animated water, depth of field effects
Latest update to game engine adds waves, foam generated at shorelines, Bokeh effects.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011