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Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

Discover the key changes in the procedural 3D software: from the revolutionary Copernicus framework to rigging, animation and simulation.

Thursday, July 11th, 2024

Multiphysics add-on's tyDiffusion module generates AI renders and animations matching 3ds Max scenes. Included in the free edition.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024

MagicPictures Software's node-based, GPU-accelerated tool can simulate smoke, liquids, sand, snow and mud. The Lite edition is free.

Friday, June 21st, 2024

Check out the popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on's neat new GPU-accelerated mesh fracturing and Boolean system.

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets new ME-L scripting language for manipulating OpenVDB data.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

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

Thursday, May 26th, 2022

Blender 3.1 ships

Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

Powerful multiphysics plugin gets new MPM solvers to simulate granular fluids like sand and snow.

Thursday, September 16th, 2021