3DS Max News

Chaos Group has released a tutorial that explains how to use the V-Ray shaders in Substance Painter 2020.1 to ensure you get the same results when working between Substance tools and V-Ray in 3ds Max and Maya. Read the tutorial on Chaos Group's blog. 

OTOY has announced the release of OctaneRender 2020.1, an update to its GPU accelerated unbiased path-traced renderer. New features of OctaneRender 2020.1 include: (more...)

iToo Software has announced the release of Forest Pack 6.3.0 and RailClone 4.2.0. (more...)

Guillermo Leal has announced that his Ivy Generator plugin for 3DS Max is out now. This will be good news for Max users who depended on the original Ivy Grow plugin by Guruware that was discontinued several years ago.  (more...)

Chaos Group has released a detailed 5 part tutorial series that covers in detail Volumetrics and SSS in Corona Renderer. Watch them on YouTube. 

Kostadin Kotev has released Miauu’s Manage Links, a new commercial script that facilitates linking Sketchup, Rhino, Autocad or your preferred BIM or CAD program with 3ds Max. (more...)

Scytales has shared a breakdown of his pipeline for muscle simulation in 3DS Max. His approach doesn't use any external plugin except the VA Mesh Conform MCG modifier by Alaa Alnahlawi. See a demo on Vimeo 

During a Q&A for the release of 3DS Max 2021, Chief Product Owner of 3DS Max Chip Weatherman confirmed that Max Indie will be "out worldwide at some point" (more...)

Adobe has released a new tutorial explaining how to use the new Substance plugin in 3DS Max 2021. Watch it on YouTube.

Autodesk has published a series of tutorials explaining how to get up to speed with 3DS Max 2021's new bake to texture tools. Watch them on Autodesk Area.