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Mari 4.5 with Mari Materials System is released
Foundry has recently released Mari 4.5 with a transformative Materials System that allows artists to create high-volume assets faster and more cost-effectively.
thinkingParticles version 6
Cebas Visual Technology Inc. announced the release of thinkingParticles version 6 Subscription Drop 5 with new workflow and production tools.
FURRY BALL 4.8
FurryBall is a fast real-time GPU production quality UNBIASED and BIASED final frame renderer developed by AAA studio. Offering an advance rendering techniques with direct support for Maya, 3DS Max and Cinema 4D.
KeyShot 8 Available
Luxion released KeyShot 8 with new updates focused on materials and volume, lighting and optics, advanced geometry, image and output, and collaboration.
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PIXEL PLOW. RENDER FARM SAFETY
Founders of Pixel Plow render farm clear the issues of data protection, security and costs for rendering.
GROW FX 1.9.8 SERVICE PACK 3 FOR 3DS MAX
Exlevel has announced that its plant modeling and animation system GrowFX 1.9.8 Service Pack 3 for 3ds Max is now available.
VR-PANORAMAS WITH LUMION
Latest update of Lumion 6.3 now allows to demonstrate 3D models from Sketchup and Revit on Gear VR and Oculus Rift DK2 (Oculus CV1 support will follow soon).
OCTANERENDER 3 AND CLOUD LAUNCH
OTOY announces availability of OctaneRender 3 and OctaneRender Cloud.
CAD mouse by 3Dconnexion
3Dconnexion has introduced the mouse designed with CAD professionals in mind. It has 7 buttons in total, including dedicated middle mouse button, 8200dpi / 1000Hz laser sensor, quickZoom, smart scroll wheel and gesture/radial menu button.
3DS Max 2018: good bye Mental Ray, hello Arnold
With the release of 3ds Max 2018® software scheduled on April 12, 2017, Autodesk will no longer include NVIDIA’s Mental Ray as part of 3ds Max. Instead the company offers access to the Arnold renderer developed by Solid Angle that was purchased by Autodesk in 2016.
RENDERPEOPLE: 3D MODELS AND FREE PLUG-IN
Renderpeople issued a new generation of scanned 3D people and a free plug-in for 3ds Max to resize and relink hundreds of textures in a 3d-scene.
Online 3d collage on CGPort
If you have ever faced the problem of purchased 3D-models mismatching the designs of your project, than probably you would be interested in the solution offered by CGPort. The team of the designers and 3d-artists came up with an idea of a try-before-buy service and created a virtual space where one can create a collage and see all the chosen 3d-models in one's own interior and check the styles, colors and proportions.
