Tyson Ibele releases tyFlow 1.012 for 3ds Max
Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
OpenVDB
ZibraAI unveils Zibra VDB Compression
Upcoming AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 20 times" for use in Unity and UE5.
Thursday, December 15th, 2022
cebas releases finalFluid 1.0 for 3ds Max
GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.6
Landscape generation software can now export clouds to other DCC apps in OpenVDB format.
Friday, November 4th, 2022
cebas releases finalRender Drop 6 for 3ds Max
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer gets new dedicated smoke and fire material, plus temporal denoising.
Monday, September 19th, 2022
cebas releases thinkingParticles 7.2
3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets new ME-L scripting language for manipulating OpenVDB data.
Monday, September 19th, 2022
Blender 3.3 LTS ships
See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
Nvidia unveils NeuralVDB
'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
ASWF adopts OpenAssetIO and OpenFX
VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.
Thursday, August 4th, 2022
Otoy ships Sculptron 2022.1 in early access
Unusual GPU-based sculpting app gets new cloth sculpting system, plus tools for grooming hair and fur.
Friday, July 29th, 2022
This neat free plugin lets you import OpenVDBs into UE5
Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
AqMesher for 3ds Max gets new liquid solver
OpenVDB-based meshing plugin gets new GPU-accelerated, network-capable FLIP/PIC solver.
Friday, July 8th, 2022
JangaFX releases EmberGen 0.7.5.5
Update to the real-time gaseous fluid simulator adds support for Wacom tablets, EXR backplates.
Thursday, March 17th, 2022