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simulation

Developers Steve Pedler and Mike Batchelor release their versatile alternative to Thinking Particles.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Update to RealFlow snow simulator adds rigid body interaction, fracture simulation and friction controls.

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Use forces to push, pull and accelerate fluids with this ingenious new simulation 'sculpting' plugin.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Free update to vehicle animation tool gets completely rewritten AI system for simulating traffic flow.

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Free tool generates body and finger rigs for humanoid 3D characters. Check out its new animation browsing and retargeting system.

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Check out the changes in the latest version of the GPU production renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya.

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Promising 3D texture painting and material authoring tools come out of early access next week. Check out the features due in the update.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

Big update to the material-authoring software adds new 3D renderer and the option to import entire USD scenes to edit materials in context.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

Get games artist Stefan Oprisan's Day By The Beach pack of 3D scanned assets free for two weeks on Fab. For commercial use.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

Major update to the next-gen terrain generator for games and VFX adds 10 new nodes, and updates over 20 more. Check out the new features.

Tuesday, July 15th, 2025