Side Effects announces Houdini Engine pricing
Engine starts at $495; free plugin enabling users to edit Houdini content inside Maya ships in July.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
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3d-io releases Flatiron 2.0 for 3ds Max
Games texture-baking plugin now supports animated textures; outputs multiple render elements in one pass.
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
Paint your crowd sims with Golaem Crowd 3.2
Maya crowd simulator adds option to control actor density and behaviour simply by painting on the ground.
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Download Wave Deformer for Cinema 4D
Johannes Kollender's neat free plugin creates animated ocean waves from any polygonal surface.
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
[0x1] ships IrayForMaya
New plugin integrates iray renderer natively inside Maya; supports Maya's UVs and shader networks.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
Cebas announces moskitoRender for 3ds Max
New GPU-based renderer will "transform", not replace, the long-awaited finalRender 4 GPU.
Monday, March 31st, 2014
Download DDO for free
Get the current version of Quixel's Photoshop games texturing toolset, once priced at $499, for nothing.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Pixar announces RenderMan for Katana
New free plugin gives users access to RenderMan Pro Server features within the lighting and look dev tool.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
Otoy makes OctaneRender 1.2 free to students
Got an educational email address? Download the GPU-based renderer plus 3ds Max and Blender plugins.
Friday, March 7th, 2014
Lightmap ships LightWave plugin for HDR Light Studio
LightWave3D Live Connection lets users create HDRIs in real time, and see the results in LightWave's VPR.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
V-Ray for Blender becomes official Chaos Group plugin
Free scene exporter gets Chaos Group product page and forum as original developer joins company.
Friday, February 21st, 2014
Clovis Gay releases Fur Guides Painter for 3ds Max
New plugin lets users style hair faster than with Max's native tools, and paint hair guides freehand.
Monday, February 17th, 2014
Grade games like films with Amplify Color for Unity
Intuitive colour-grading extension now optimised for mobile devices; supports Color Volumes.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014