February 8, 2023
Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on. Read More »
November 8, 2022
GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time. Read More »
September 19, 2022
3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets new ME-L scripting language for manipulating OpenVDB data. Read More »
August 25, 2022
Major update turns the gaseous fluid simulator into a full motion graphics and multiphysics toolkit. Read More »
March 15, 2022
Check out the new GPU-based real-time fire and smoke simulator, now available in free public beta. Read More »
September 16, 2021
Powerful multiphysics plugin gets new MPM solvers to simulate granular fluids like sand and snow. Read More »
February 2, 2021
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer finalRender now bundled with the 3ds Max particle plugin for free. Read More »
January 12, 2020
Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers. Read More »
November 24, 2019
Fluid simulator gets new rigid body solver and texture UVW system. 3ds Max edition now integrated with thinkingParticles. Read More »
July 1, 2019
3ds Max particle and multiphysics system gets over 30 new nodes for working with volume data in OpenVDB format. Read More »
December 6, 2018
Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS. Read More »
October 17, 2018
Big update to the 3ds Max particle plugin's fluid simulation tools adds new options for generating waves, water levels and diffusion effects. Read More »
May 30, 2018
Neat scripted operator displays key particle properties on screen to troubleshoot simulations visually. Read More »
February 8, 2018
3ds Max particle tool gets neat new 'All Purpose Fields' to help art direct simulations, OpenVDB support. Read More »
April 12, 2017
Videos: see the new fracturing and liquid simulation options in the 3ds Max particle and physics plugin. Read More »
January 4, 2017
Watch our pick of the best movie, TV and commercials breakdown videos created in the past year. Read More »
March 24, 2016
3ds Max physics plugin gets better liquid simulation and particle caching, plus support for Alembic. Read More »
January 5, 2016
Download the FX guru's eight-hour series of Max, thinkingParticles and FumeFX videos, with project files. Read More »
August 18, 2015
Subscription Drop 2 for the 3ds Max physics plugin adds new smoke solver, direct particle rendering. Read More »
June 24, 2015
New plugin offers 'highly optimised' GPU-accelerated version of the popular Bullet physics library in Max. Read More »