Act-3D releases Lumion 6.5
Real-time visualisation tool gets improved renderer, plus new option to set transparency for vegetation.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
vegetation
iToo Software ships Forest Pack 5.0, RailClone 2.6
3ds Max scattering and modelling plugins get 'up to 100%' speed boost on V-Ray renders, new UI to manage large scenes.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
Act-3D releases Lumion 6.3
Updated: Real-time visualisation software gets improved GI, AO, depth of field - and now VR support.
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
F12 ships The Grove Release 3
Promising new tree-generation tool gets intelligent polygon reduction, new advanced growth parameters.
Thursday, March 31st, 2016
Code-Artists releases AutoModeller Pro for Max
Updated: Paint meshes across the surface of 3ds Max objects to create insanely detailed scenes. Price now cut to €249.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
Abvent ships Twinmotion 2016
Updated: Real-time viz tool now supports Google Earth topology, photogrammetry & point cloud data.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
F12 releases The Grove
Create realistic vegetation for use in Blender or export to other DCC apps with this neat new tree generator.
Monday, October 5th, 2015
3DQuakers releases Forester for Cinema 4D
Create procedural, wind-animated plants, then scatter them throughout a scene with this neat new plugin.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
E-on software releases Carbon Scatter 2015.5
3ds Max, Maya and C4D instancing plugin gets revamped file browser, better compatibility with PlantFactory.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
E-on software releases LumenRT 2015.5 line-up
Update to real-time visualisation tools boosts playback performance, adds integration with PlantFactory.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.8
Updated: Now officially shipping. New downloadable .exe file for the UE4 Kite demo due this week, too.
Thursday, June 11th, 2015
10 tips for using Maya's XGen in production
Digital Domain's Stefano Giorgetti provides his tips for making best use of Maya's instancing system.
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Unreal Engine 4.7 ships
Engine now publishes games in HTML5 format to play in a browser; better foliage rendering options.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015