E-on ships Vue Infinite 2016 and Vue xStream 2016
Videos: Digital nature tools get new hybrid GPU renderer, heightfield terrains, improved export options.
Friday, November 4th, 2016
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Kinematic Lab releases PhysX Painter for 3ds Max
Cool new plugin lets you populate scenes by painting in objects and watching them settle under gravity.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
iToo Software ships Forest Pack 5.0, RailClone 2.6
3ds Max scattering and modelling plugins get 'up to 100%' speed boost on V-Ray renders, new UI to manage large scenes.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
Corona Renderer 1.3 for 3ds Max ships
Sizeable update adds new layered material, animated proxies, vector displacement, better anisotropy.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
3DQuakers releases Forester for Cinema 4D
Create procedural, wind-animated plants, then scatter them throughout a scene with this neat new plugin.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Peregrine Labs releases Yeti 2.0
Maya fur plugin gets speed boost, better dynamics, new sculpting tools. Price down to CAD $699, too.
Monday, August 3rd, 2015
E-on software releases Carbon Scatter 2015.5
3ds Max, Maya and C4D instancing plugin gets revamped file browser, better compatibility with PlantFactory.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
Video Copilot releases Element 3D V2.2
GPU-accelerated tool for rendering 3D models inside After Effects adds new options for working with grouped objects.
Friday, June 19th, 2015
Corona Renderer 1.1 for 3ds Max ships
Update to popular 3ds Max renderer adds new, faster Bitmap shader and improves handling of particles.
Thursday, June 18th, 2015
10 tips for using Maya's XGen in production
Digital Domain's Stefano Giorgetti provides his tips for making best use of Maya's instancing system.
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Hurleyworks ships Advance Placement 1.0
Neat LightWave plugin lets users paint instances into a scene complete with built-in dynamics.
Monday, May 4th, 2015
Nvidia launches Iray 2015
GPU-based renderer gets support for instancing, AxF material format. New Maya plugin and server edition also in development.
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
Act-3D releases Lumion 5.3
Real-time visualisation tool can now create normal maps automatically and render 'poster-res' images.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015