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Check out the changes to the 3ds Max hair plugin for games and VFX, including a new Warp Roots modifier to help groom feathers.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

Check out the changes to the Maya plugin for creating hair and fur for games and VFX, including fast new workflows for braiding hair.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

[Sponsored] Discover how Reallusion's free plugin streamlines the transfer of characters from Character Creator 4 to 3ds Max.

Wednesday, December 18th, 2024

Hair and fur plugin gets new tools for 'grafting' procedural hair grooms onto a character, and 'boxing' operators into single modifiers.

Friday, November 15th, 2024

Check out the popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on's neat new GPU-accelerated mesh fracturing and Boolean system.

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

Check out the new features in the hair and fur plugin, including a point-and-click groom-creation system, and the option to 'box' operators.

Friday, December 15th, 2023

Real-time renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets better hair and fur rendering, better denoising and upscaling, new firefly filter.

Saturday, December 9th, 2023

C4D edition of the renderer gets V-Ray Toon material, Chaos Scatter, and improved MoGraph support.

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023

Maya hair plugin's Graft Grooms system makes it possible to create entire hair grooms in a few clicks.

Friday, March 31st, 2023

Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

Create facial hair for an animatable 3D character with The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.

Saturday, September 11th, 2021

Neat tool snaps hair guides to a target mesh, then lets you reshape the entire hairstyle interactively.

Thursday, January 21st, 2021

New trial edition lets you test this major update to the GPU renderer, even if you aren't an existing user.

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020