3DS Max News

Chaos has released update 5 for Chaos Vantage 2, its real-time ray-traced platform. The update introduces support for virtual reality headsets, allowing users to explore projects from a first-person perspective with head tracking and rendering capabilities. (more...)

Chaos has announced the release of Corona 12. One of the most requested feature is now included: users can now export Corona scenes to Vantage for rapid test rendering and rendering animations with real-time GPU ray tracing. (more...)

D5 Render has announced the release of its latest version, D5 Render 2.8. One of the standout features in this update is a beta AI Enhancer, which improves various elements within renders such as lighting, materials, characters, vehicles, and vegetation. This tool offers selective area enhancement with three intensity levels—weak, normal, and strong—and includes an AI Enhancer Channel for precise area selection and task tracking. (more...)

Tyson Ibele has released version 1.111 of TyFlow. This releases introduces Stable Diffusion directly in 3ds Max through a new tyDiffusion module. (more...)

SIGGRAPH has released its annual trailer of research topics to be presented at this year's conference. (more...)

Magic Pictures has announced Aquarius, a new plugin for 3ds Max capable of OpenVDB meshing, volume, particle editing, and creating simulations such as smoke, fire, liquid, and and other MPM-based effects. (more...)

Aviz Studio has released AHelper, a new free plugin for 3DS Max offering a new way to edit and interact with scene objects. The plugin features a swipe-based interface that allows users to adjust parameters, manage scenes, apply modifiers, update materials and much more.  (more...)

RapidTools has announced the release of UVReactor, a new plugin for 3ds Max that uses an advanced algorithm for unwrapping and relaxing UVs that employs the efficient AVX2 instruction set of modern CPUs to perform significantly more work per cycle compared to other UV editors, all while running on a single CPU thread. (more...)

Golaem has released Golaem 9, the latest version of its crowd simulation software. (more...)

Miauu has release Statistica, a new script for 3ds Max that provides extensive statistics about selections and scenes. (more...)