Syflex ships Syflex for Modo
Production-proven cloth simulation plugin comes to Modo. Capable of creating fabric, hair - and even snow.
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
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cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.3
3ds Max physics plugin gets better liquid simulation and particle caching, plus support for Alembic.
Thursday, March 24th, 2016
Nvidia releases HairWorks source, unveils PhysX-GRB
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
Download Maya object fracturing script IShatter
MOAB's neat tool for Maya and Fracture FX lets users paint shatter patterns directly onto 3D models.
Thursday, February 11th, 2016
Eye candy: the RealFlow 2015 showreel
See three minutes of gorgeous new work created with the fluid simulator, from ads to the titles for Daredevil.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
AAA Studio releases FurryBall RT 1.2
GPU-based renderer's interesting new scene format lets users export Maya Fluids sims to Cinema 4D, or C4D particles to Maya.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
Ephere releases Lucid Physics for 3ds Max
Neat new GPU-accelerated multiphysics system based on Nvidia's FleX simulates anything from foam to jam.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
Get Allan McKay's free tower destruction tutorial
Download the FX guru's eight-hour series of Max, thinkingParticles and FumeFX videos, with project files.
Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
Joe Alter releases Shave and a Haircut 9.6
Maya hair plugin gets first big update in several years, improving viewport performance and grooming tools.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
Review: HP ZBook 17 G2 mobile workstation
Jason Lewis puts HP's top-of-the-range pro mobile system through a battery of real-world tests.
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 4.0 for 3ds Max
First update to top gaseous fluid simulator in three years boosts speed, adds new tools for art directing sims.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Hans Godard ships Skinning Converter for Maya
Naughty Dog TD's nifty plugin turns any animated mesh into a bone based rig - even Alembic caches and cloth sims.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
Sneak peek: Houdini 15
Updated: See the new crowd sim and simulation slicing options, plus the new Principled PBR shader.
Monday, September 28th, 2015