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physics

Videos: see the new fracturing and liquid simulation options in the 3ds Max particle and physics plugin.

Wednesday, April 12th, 2017

Check out the neat new clothing simulation options and Immediate Mode physics system due in the next release.

Tuesday, March 28th, 2017

Promising real-time fur system with self-shadowing and physics now available for Unity as well as UE4.

Thursday, December 1st, 2016

Promising new plugin implements Blender's powerful GPU-based renderer and node-based materials inside Cinema 4D.

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

Updated: See the complete, near-six-minute short. Runs in real time on a single GeForce GTX 980.

Monday, June 20th, 2016

Cool new plugin lets you populate scenes by painting in objects and watching them settle under gravity.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2016

3ds Max physics plugin gets better liquid simulation and particle caching, plus support for Alembic.

Thursday, March 24th, 2016

Source code of fur system used on Call of Duty: Ghosts out now. New CGU/GPU rigid body system in beta.

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016

Neat new GPU-accelerated multiphysics system based on Nvidia's FleX simulates anything from foam to jam.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2016

New work-in-progress plugin implements Nvidia's GPU-based FleX multiphysics system in Max.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2015

Mainly bugfixes for a year, then a major update in 2016 - which may not be 100% backwards-compatible.

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015

Updated: Free plugin to make Houdini's VFX tools accessible inside C4D now out in public beta.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

Neat LightWave plugin lets users paint instances into a scene complete with built-in dynamics.

Monday, May 4th, 2015