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Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Watch an enigmatic set of teasers of smoke, fire, cloth and granular fluids, posted to Autodesk's Twitter.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, July 26th, 2019

VFX and finishing software gets new AI-based sky extraction system, plus the option to extract mattes from motion vector data.

Thursday, July 25th, 2019

Voxel sculpting, painting and retopo tool gets 'soft Boolean' system, updated UV unwrapping, resolution-independent painting.

Wednesday, July 24th, 2019

Maya crowd animation software gets standalone crowd layout tool, plus new live link plugin for round-tripping shots to Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019

Gaseous fluid simulator can now use 3ds Max 2020.1's detachable viewports as floating previews.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019

Free-in-beta material-authoring tool gets new Scatter modifier, updated Pattern modifer, layer blending modes and undo/redo system.

Monday, July 22nd, 2019

Architectural modelling software gets new line weight control for exported images, plus option to set up multiple measurement units.

Monday, July 22nd, 2019

'Complete rewrite' of the free Maya Substance plugin adds support for 8K textures, numerical output, Python scripting.

Friday, July 19th, 2019

Rendering and compositing tool for graphic designers gets new widget for aligning objects automatically, option to publish scenes online.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2019

Free quality-of-life update adds new navigation modes in Layout and Modeler, improvements to FBX interchange and the UE4 bridge.

Tuesday, July 16th, 2019

GPU-accelerated tool will work like Photoshop's Healing Brush, quickly cloning out blemishes and markers.

Monday, July 15th, 2019