Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021
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Octane X is now available in the Mac App Store
Metal-native GPU renderer is now free for a year on any Mac capable of running macOS 11.2 Big Sur.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Exlevel ships GrowFX 2.0
Long-awaited overhaul of the 3ds Max plant-generation plugin adds new Node Editor for authoring plants via visual programming.
Monday, March 8th, 2021
Erik Lehmann releases RS Shader Kit 2.0 for Maya
Check out the Scanline VFX artist's compact, streamlined alternative to the native Hypershade interface.
Saturday, March 6th, 2021
Anastasiy releases MagicRefs 2.0 for Photoshop
Reference image manager gets option to tag images and organise image groups into collections.
Thursday, March 4th, 2021
Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create
Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.
Friday, February 26th, 2021
Check out super-cool 3ds Max snow plugin PolySnow Plus
Neat plugin for adding realistic snow to 3D scenes gets brush-based sculpting, new icicle object.
Friday, February 19th, 2021
Hair Cards Tool for Max creates strip-based hair for games
Check out Gameloft character artist Mihail Lupu's neat new 3ds Max tool for creating fast-rendering hair.
Friday, February 19th, 2021
Kinematic Lab releases PhysX Painter 2.0 for 3ds Max
Amazing plugin for painting objects into scenes under gravity also now lets you Attract or Explode them.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
Uppercut releases U-Render 2020.9 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer gets new color correction filter. Now fully integrated into the C4D viewport.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.10
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer finalRender now bundled with the 3ds Max particle plugin for free.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2
VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.
Saturday, January 30th, 2021
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2020 for LightWave and Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the latest update to the all-purprose hard surface modelling toolkit.
Friday, January 22nd, 2021