Chaos discontinues its Phoenix fluid simulation software
Smoke, fire and liquid simulator for 3ds Max and Maya is now end-of-support, and will receive no further compatibility updates or fixes.
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
Phoenix
tyFlow 2.0 now simulates smoke and fire as well as particles
Popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on for VFX and motion graphics gets neat new GPU-based Zenith fluid engine.
Thursday, March 5th, 2026
Chaos releases Vantage 3.0
Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer adds initial support for USD, MaterialX, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and volumes.
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Chaos updates V-Ray, Corona and Enscape subscription plans
Node-locked licenses of the renderers ended, new ArchDesign, ArchViz and M&E Collection product bundles launched.
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
Chaos releases Vantage 2.6
Real-time ray tracing renderer for large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Clipper and a new Water Surface object.
Saturday, October 26th, 2024
tyFlow 1.1 for 3ds Max adds new PRISM fracturing system
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
Chaos releases Phoenix 5.2
Check out the new features in the 3ds Max and Maya fluid simulator, including new options for directing liquids. Sims now 'up to 20%' faster.
Wednesday, July 12th, 2023
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
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp
SketchUp edition of the renderer now supports lights and materials from visualisation app Enscape.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in this major update to the renderer, several unique to the C4D edition.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for Maya
Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max
Latest update makes the renderer subscription-only, but licences work across 8 other host applications.
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
Cebas launches finalFluid for 3ds Max
Check out the new GPU-based real-time fire and smoke simulator, now available in free public beta.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022