Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 4 for Maya
Destruction plugin gets neat new options to control Voronoi shatter patterns. Dynamics sims now up to 30% faster.
Friday, February 16th, 2018
fracturing
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.5
Videos: see the new fracturing and liquid simulation options in the 3ds Max particle and physics plugin.
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R18
Major update adds neat MoGraph options, object tracking, real-time knife tools, and Substance support.
Thursday, September 1st, 2016
Watch Allan McKay's videos on building custom FX tools
VFX supervisor's three-part training series includes five hours of video, plus all the MAX files and scripts.
Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
Mir Vadim ships RayFire 1.62 for 3ds Max
And the demos of the destruction plugin's new voxelisation and clustering tools are pure eye candy.
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
Nvidia shows new real-time fur simulation system
See 100,000 strands simulated purely on the GPU. PhysX tech to form part of Unreal Engine 4, too.
Monday, March 12th, 2012
Nvidia shows videos of new real-time fracture engine
GPU-based dynamic fracturing system will form part of APEX physics framework, says developer.
Monday, March 12th, 2012
Exocortex Technologies releases ImplosiaFX
Create animated destruction with the ace Softimage developer's custom shatter and fracture plugin.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Exocortex ships Momentum 3
Softimage multiphysics simulator gets fracturing engine and cool new option to control simulations by 'sculpting' forces.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011