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instancing

Long-awaited update brings a 'first taste' of GPU rendering to Arnold, plus better support for MaterialX.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

MAXtoA 2.4.43 adds option to export as Arnold points primitives, plus new options for instancing Particle Flow systems.

Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Learn key set dressing techniques with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new Houdini 17 tutorial.

Saturday, February 23rd, 2019

Fluid simulator gets support for instancing sims, plus volumetric rendering on the GPU via V-Ray Next for Maya.

Tuesday, November 6th, 2018

Master current workflows for creating realistic hair with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Saturday, October 20th, 2018

Interesting new tool generates detailed, non-overlapping patterns of instances for close-up shots.

Tuesday, September 18th, 2018

Now available: Update adds node based material system, volume modelling, MoGraph fields, and multi-pass rendering on the GPU.

Monday, September 3rd, 2018

Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.

Friday, July 20th, 2018

Update to add new level streaming, instancing and LOD features, plus replay system created for Fortnite.

Saturday, March 24th, 2018

Promising new scattering plugin aims to provide an artist-friendly way to create very large scenes.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

Popular level design and modelling tool now part of Unity 2018.1 after buyout of original devs ProCore.

Tuesday, February 20th, 2018

Neat free tool lets you scatter objects across a terrain and have them settle naturally under the influence of gravity.

Tuesday, December 26th, 2017

Version 1.8 of the open-source physically based renderer also adds procedural objects, render-time instancing.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017