The 3ds Max team keep updating the USD import/export independently from the main 3dsMax branch. Its something you can download for free to get a better interoperability with 3ds Max. The new USD 0.5 adds a lot of core functionality, Supports for 3ds Max Morphers and skinning to the equivalent […]

MaxtoA has been updated to 5.6.4.0, giving support to the new Arnold 7.2.3. This new version adds support to Global light samplint on the GPU. You will see a big improvement if you work with more than 8 lights in your scene. With speed increases that go from 2 times […]

Autodesk and Adobe created OpenPBR, a new shading model that will allow to move shaders between these two companies softwares seamlessly. This new shading language will be the successor of both Autodesk Standard Surface, and Adobe Standard Material. Both companies will focus their efforts on this new standard from now […]

Connecter is a great asset browser with multiple possibilities. The bridge with 3dsmax is called 3ds Max Integration, now version 3. It comes with multiple improvements, with a complete rework of “merge as proxy” for better artist control, support for parametric and rigged assets. Supporting forest pack, railclone, multiscatter and […]

Amazon released Deadline 10.3.0.9, adding support for 3ds Max 2024, also upgrading to Python 3.10. Different general improvements like a new application plugin and monitor submitter for DeadlineCommand, and others. You can check all the news in the official documentation.

Thinkinetic release a new update for his destruction plugin for 3dsmax. This one focused on performance. The shatter tool is now multithreaded, and up to 4 times faster than before. Cracks tool generation is up to 2 times faster. Also other improvements and a more intuitive UI. You can check […]

Lance Culver has a very cool youtube channel covering tyflow. Has some really interesting and specific videos covering how to create a car rig in tyflow, and how to deal with suspensions, shocks, rotating wheels, deforming wheels, bindings, following splines, or even obstacle avoidances! Check them out, because are really […]

Siggraph 2023 is approaching! once more will be in las Vegas, and autodesk will present his Vision series between August 8 and 9. Usually with very good talks, from renown studios like: Wētā FX, Untold Studios, Rising Sun Pictures, EVR Studio, IGNITE Animation, Arcturus, RADiCAL. You can already register for […]

Phoenix 5.2 from Chaos group is quite a big improvement. Is not only adding support for max 2024, but now it has his own floating pannel (similar to FumeFX), Sources has the option to specify custom velocities, around 20% faster simulations, and more improvements and bug fixes. You can check […]

Chaos presented the new iteration for Corona 10. We already saw some of the news on sneak peaks, and a lot of the features look similar to what we saw on vray recently. Faster 3dsmax materials creation (they claim its 22x faster), sunlight color affect clouds, improved caustics, improved bokeh, […]

Kstudio released Splineflow. A tool to help with the creation of parametric spline modeling. Its not only for static models, you can use SplineFlow to create different interesting animations with splines. The Lite version is free, you can open any splineflow model done with the pro version, but you can […]

Itoo software released a new version of his popular array system in 3ds Max. It comes with even a bigger library of parametric objects, with all types of parking and street objects, masonry elements, elements for parks and plazas, parametric roads, and 38 different street lights. Multiple improvements to make […]

Ero Z added a very useful search bar inside Slate Material Editor. Something I always dream on! You can pay what you want for this tool and get it on his gumroad.

Dan Constantin presented a major new release of his FormCutter tool to accelerate modeling workflows in 3ds Max. On this new version the tool received a complete new UI, simpler and straight forward. Realtime cuts, a shape cut tool with a new library to save and load custom shapes, mirrors, […]