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OpenVDB

Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

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

Tuesday, July 23rd, 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

3ds Max particle and multiphysics system gets over 30 new nodes for working with volume data in OpenVDB format.

Monday, July 1st, 2019

New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Industry open-source initiative to 'support and drive collaboration' around OpenCue render manager.

Friday, May 3rd, 2019

Latest update to the renderer adds the option to pause offline renders, better support for Alembic files, and network rendering on Linux.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2019

Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

First update to the Maya edition of RealFlow adds Visualizer daemon to preview forces in the viewport.

Monday, November 5th, 2018

Big update to the 3ds Max particle plugin's fluid simulation tools adds new options for generating waves, water levels and diffusion effects.

Wednesday, October 17th, 2018

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

Monday, September 3rd, 2018

Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.

Tuesday, August 14th, 2018

See everyday objects twisted into strange and colourful forms with Cinema 4D R20's fields system.

Wednesday, August 1st, 2018