Planetside software released a new update ofTerragen. Major update of new version consits in FBX support. Industry standard FBX format is supported for both import and export, and can include cameras, lights, nulls, and animation as well as terrain geometry. In addition, Nuke .CHAN files can now be exported from Terragen as well as imported.
Terragen 2.5 is a major step forward for interoperability, enhancing workflow between Terragen and many other 3D applications.
The Foundry released new update of MARI. MARI is a production proven 3D digital paint tool, designed from the ground up to let you spend more time being creative and less time managing technical issues. Not only is MARI capable of handling super high-resolution textures and millions of polygons, it is open, scriptable and interacts well with other VFX tools and Photoshop, letting you work the way you want to.
MARI 1.6 brings a new, and unique, toolkit for creating direction based effects directly on the geometry.
The Blender Foundation has released Blender 2.65. Headline feature this time out is fire simulation, along with other improvements to the smoke simulation system, including a new flow force field, mixing options and support for interactions with collision objects.
The Cycles render engine also gets an update, with support for the Sony Pictures Imageworks-developed Open Shading Language, and there are a few updates to the mesh modelling and editing toolsets.
In addition to the new features, over 200 bugs that existed in previous releases have been fixed.
The Foundry released a new update for their popular 3D digital paint tool Mari 1.5v2. Mari was designed from the ground up so artists can spend more time being creative and less with time handling technical issues. Mari is capable to fulfil the most challenging VFX painting projects and handling high-resolution textures and millions of polygons without slowing artists down. MARI offers a ‘paint & bake’ approach designed and proven by artists, powerful image processing tools, customisable menu system and interoperability with Photoshop® and other VFX tools. The new update includes a number of important fixes and enhancements. One of the new features included inside Mari 1.5v2 is a new option in the Hue filter and the Diffuse HSV shader module which allows you to specify whether to calculate desaturation based on Original [HSV] or Photoshop [HSL] values.
The Foundry has finally released new version of NUKE. The highly anticipated release of NUKE 7.0 is packed with a wide range of new features and substantial improvements. The updated version is available to purchase now. Based on feedback from NUKE’s wide user base, this version of NUKE is faster and more user-optimised than ever before.
As well as some very exciting new additions, the focus of this release has been to really increase performance as well as adding support for Alembic and OpenEXR 2.0 Deep Data.
