F12 release The Grove Release 3,Release 3 gets back to the core. Introducing new natural effects for greatly improved – and totally new – tree characters. Tree branches have many senses and matching r...read more
AAA Studio has released FurryBall 1.3, the latest update to its GPU-based renderer, improving render speed by up to 30%, and introducing a new scheme where people actively posting renders get to use t...read more
Metasequoia 4.5 (Ver4.5.5a) for OS X. Veteran Japanese hobbyist 3D modelling software Metasequoia has just been released for Mac. Developer tetraface’s recent 4.5 update makes Metasequoia available on...read more
Terragen VR Challange, $10,000 in prizes including Terragen 4! Enter the Terragen VR Challenge for a chance to win one of 10 copies of Terragen 4 Pro, up to $500 cash, and much more. ...read more
Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine....read more
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The Blender Foundation and online developer community released Blender 2.77 with more than 100 of bug fixes and improvements; honestly, this is a quite nice number of changes. Between the most noticeable changes belongs a new Subsurface Scattering algorithm - (Christensen-Burley). The new added Subsurface Scattering algorithm (Christensen-Burley), preserves details much better than the Cubic/Gaussian falloffs and It is the new default falloff for the SSS shader. The new version include GPU support for Smoke/Fire, Point Density (3D textures) and optimize memory usage and performance of Subsurface Scattering on the GPU which at the end results in up to 3x faster SSS renders! As a result of the new changes in GPU rendering, the developers decided to remove the experimental CUDA kernel and make Subsurface Scattering and Correlated Multi-jittered sampling regular features. The user interface and therefore also the workflow was improved too and adds stroke sculpting support to the Grease Pencil, implements OpenVDB caching for both volumetric and smoke simulations, and it now offers a redesigned progress bar, thus completing the design overhaul.
Basefount, a company obsessed with animations, VFX technologies and software development, announced the release of Miarmy 4.5. Miarmy (read My Army) is a Human Logic Engine based Maya plugin for crowd simulation, AI & behavioral animation, creature physical simulation and rendering. Using Miarmy you can create human fuzzy logic network without any programming and node connecting supporting a standard production pipeline, reference, HumanIK and Motion Builder. Using the integration of PhysX: ragdoll, RBD emitters, force field, cloth, wind, fluid, you are able to create awesome crowd VFX using Maya particles, field, fluid and transform. The new version comes with some new special features and improves lots of features already seen in the previous versions of Miarmy. Between the new features belongs a new jump system allowing agents to jump among the trees in the forest. It’s therefore easy to create randomize actions of climb and jump and also allowing us to determine which trees the agents can jump on or not. The best of it at the end, Miarmy 4.5 is free of charge forever.
IntegrityWare, Inc. / nPower Software announces the release of a new software platform (Cyborg3D), and three new products developed on that platform: SubD2CAD creates and converts subdivision surfaces into CAD formats. CAD2Print converts CAD formats into high quality STL files for 3-D printing. CAD2Poly converts CAD parts and assemblies into polygonal formats for visualization and gaming applications. For many years the software developed by nPower Software has helped 3D engineers and designers improve productivity through its popular, award winning plugins (Power Surfacing for SolidWorks, Power Translators for 3ds Max / Maya / MODO, Power SubD-NURBS for 3ds Max / MODO, Power NURBS for 3ds Max, etc.) for 3ds Max, Maya, MODO, and SolidWorks. Cyborg3D combines the above mentioned plugins to a new standalone 3D modeling software platform that uniquely combines organic surface modeling (subdivision surfaces) with precise, parametric CAD (NURBS solids & surfaces) modeling. The strength of Cyborg3D comes from its unique, patented technology for converting between organic geometry and precise NURBS geometry, and for calculating and maintaining complex relationships between diverse types of geometry. The new interface is very intuitive and easy to use making the learning process much easier, and empowers users to optimize their productivity. A new accurate conversion technology provides the possibility of processing various formats from diverse 3D modeling systems; it can import and export CAD models (STEP, IGES, SAT) and mesh models (OBJ, STL).