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simulation

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

Maya edition of the renderer gets support for AMD GPU rendering, and better support for Bifrost and rendering 3D Gaussian Splats.

Friday, July 10th, 2026

New tech compresses geometry caches from destruction, cloth and liquid sims by 'up to 92%' for real-time rendering in Unreal Engine.

Thursday, July 9th, 2026

Check out the new features in the GPU production renderer, including updates to 3D Gaussian Splatting and the Neural Radiance Cache.

Tuesday, July 7th, 2026

Check out the new features in the AI-powered Character Creator plugin for generating 3D digital doubles from reference photos.

Tuesday, July 7th, 2026

New online tool lets you paint textures directly onto 3D models, or create new PBR materials by remixing a library of CC0 assets.

Friday, July 3rd, 2026

Major update to the soft tissue simulation add-on for Maya and Houdini adds new machine learning toolset. See all the new features.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2026