See Fabric Engine's Horde do real-time crowd sims
New videos show the work-in-progress previz and VFX tool in use within both Maya and Softimage.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
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Eye candy: real-time visualisation in CryEngine 3
Beautiful new showreel from French visualisation studio Enodo proves CryEngine does more than games.
Friday, April 26th, 2013
Video: Position Based Fluids in PhysX
See impressive real-time liquids simulated using tech from future releases of Nvidia's physics engine.
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Xsens releases mocap streaming plugin for Unity
Preview data from its inertial mocap systems directly on a character, rather than importing FBX files.
Friday, April 12th, 2013
Watch real-time path tracing in Otoy's Brigade engine
See a 13.9-billion-triangle scene rendered in real time in this noisy but beautifully photorealistic demo.
Monday, April 8th, 2013
Eye candy: Epic's Infiltrator Unreal Engine 4 demo
Latest outing for the game engine shows physically based materials and some very nice HDR reflections.
Monday, April 1st, 2013
e-on software releases LumenRT 4 Studio
Real-time visualisation tool gets major new animation, lighting and import options. Price up a lot, too.
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Holomatix releases SprayTrace 1.5
Real-time mental ray viewer for Maya gets new render snapshot system, material and lighting overrides.
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Fabric Engine unveils new Stage and Orb modules
Creation tools-development platform to get add-ons for real-time lighting, streaming renders to a browser.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
IKinema ships Action 2.5
Real-time mocap solver for Maya now supports OptiTrack hardware; new, more advanced constraints.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Eye candy: Quantic Dream's PS4 real-time facial demo
Our tech shows the soul in a character's eyes, David Cage tells the PlayStation 4 launch audience.
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Luxion releases KeyShot 4
Updated and now shipping: Intuitive renderer adds more features for general 3D users, including improved SSS and HDRI editing.
Friday, February 15th, 2013
Videos: real-time hair in Luminous Studio
Watch hair being rendered in Square Enix's next-gen game engine - including a rather odd demo of a beard.
Monday, January 28th, 2013