Download Aq Mesher Lite and Aq Bullet Lite for free
Get MagicPictures Software's new free editions of its particle meshing and physics plugins for 3ds Max.
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
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Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.5
Sizeable update to the Maya fur and feathers plugin adds support for Alembic and OpenColorIO, plus new volumetric hair guide model.
Wednesday, August 21st, 2019
Get promising Maya real-time Boolean plugin speedCut
Get Joe Wu's neat non-destructive real-time Boolean modelling add-on, currently in free open beta.
Wednesday, August 21st, 2019
Screenspace creates pickers for Maya rigs that act as HUDs
Animal Logic software engineer Eddie Hoyle's neat free tool fixes rig controls to the Maya viewport.
Thursday, August 15th, 2019
SideFX announces v2.0 of Substance in Houdini
New integration plugin will let Houdini process Substance height maps as well as material data.
Tuesday, August 13th, 2019
QuadSpinner ships Gaea 1.0.24
Next-gen terrain design tool now integrates with Houdini. Edit Gaea terrain in Houdini or software compatible with Houdini Engine.
Tuesday, August 13th, 2019
Anastasiy ships MagicTints 1.2
Updated: AI-trained Photoshop plugin for transferring the colour palette from one image to another now supports batch processing.
Monday, August 5th, 2019
MagicPictures Software ships Aq Mesher and Aq Bullet
VFX house MagicPictures Studio's OpenVDB-based meshing and Bullet physics tools now available as 3ds Max plugins.
Monday, August 5th, 2019
Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4
Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Autodesk unveils Maya 2019.2 and Bifrost for Maya
Big update introduces new visual programming system for physics simulations, with new fire, smoke and snow solvers.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Reallusion releases iClone Unreal Live Link
Plugin transfers iClone characters, lights and cameras to UE4 for real-time rendering, but it isn't cheap.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.2
Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Golaem ships Golaem 7.0
Maya crowd animation software gets standalone crowd layout tool, plus new live link plugin for round-tripping shots to Unreal Engine.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019