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Updated: Insydium's popular particle and fluid simulation tool is coming to Blender. Check out its features and likely price and release date.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2026

Latest update to the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver improves collisions between smoke and surrounding objects.

Thursday, September 25th, 2025

Check out the new features in the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver, including support for height fields as collision sources.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

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

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

See footage of a pre-alpha build of EmberGen creator's hotly tipped upcoming real-time liquid simulator.

Monday, July 3rd, 2023

GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time.

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022

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

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

GPU-accelerated spectral renderer gets new dedicated smoke and fire material, plus temporal denoising.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

Standalone granular fluid, liquid and smoke simulation tool now supports cloth and soft bodies.

Thursday, May 26th, 2022

GPU-accelerated sparse gaseous fluid solver gets new profiling tools. Native Metal support now in beta.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

Update to the real-time gaseous fluid simulator adds support for Wacom tablets, EXR backplates.

Thursday, March 17th, 2022

Check out the new GPU-based real-time fire and smoke simulator, now available in free public beta.

Tuesday, March 15th, 2022