Cebas Visual Technology has updated thinkingParticles, its procedural visual effects plugin for 3ds Max. Version 7.4 brings full compatibility with 3ds Max 2026 and introduces a major expansion of the ME‑L scripting language with over 160 new functions.
The updated ME‑L system provides programmatic control over individual mesh components such as vertices, faces, normals, and elements. It supports advanced modeling operations including edge subdivision and dynamic remeshing. The scripting syntax has been designed to be accessible to artists without requiring in-depth programming experience.
New features in this release include the SimpleDeform node’s expanded functionality with pose matching controls, allowing particle meshes to maintain or revert to their original poses after deformation. A new moisture-based activation feature, “Wakeup Sel,” has been added to the MPM-Sand system, enabling particles to activate in response to moisture levels. The new SplineForce node introduces spline-driven force fields that can guide particle motion along predefined paths.
The update also includes an Explosion System consisting of special-purpose nodes aimed at creating explosion effects with a streamlined setup process and customizable control. The SPH 7.3 fluid solver has been revised to improve responsiveness and performance in pressure-related calculations. ME‑L now supports custom markers for debugging within 3ds Max, with options for text, lines, points, and color displays.
For more information, visit Cebas Visual Technology’s website.
Unfortunately, such a program is slowly far from people’s poor performance in all fields, it looks like this architectural and architectural design, and it has not been properly upgraded. Now such a powerful program must be made for such a program. This poor performance is all the way to the Maya Bleader.
Can you please elaborate on this? I think I did not get what you mean.
I think he is trying to say he is a Blender user
Hahaha, poor man Alih could’ve also suffered a momentary lapse of cognitive functions.
You may have a point though, based on my current lab studies he does show Blender symptoms. We could both be wrong though and would be recommending him the wrong prescriptions, oh well got to start somewhere.
I don’t know if this is intentional or not, but with all due respect, please correct your text! I won’t blame you like the disrespectful bullies do, but nowadays major AI chatbots can help you with this task.
This program hasn’t had proper updates in the animation section for the past 15 years. In the dynamics section, it hasn’t had proper updates for the past 10 years. It has nothing to say.”
That’s partly true because TP is still primarily used in large studios and their pipelines are setup around this system, this was far before Tyflow hit the market.
Now they have major competition from Tyflow in max, that includes their subscription pricetag.
Personally never liked it from a user experience point of view but can recognise that it is a powerful tool.
With Tyflow we can do everything we need to do these days with particles.
I’m still trying to figure out that first comment.
The first comment is cryptic, it is purposefully deceptive and uses binary to distract us thinking its Blender fan boys when its not.
You are not meant to figure it out, not yet at least, just…study it.. and pass it onto your children to do the same.
And still it has the best, and most stable rigid body solver you can found anywhere else, the best sph solver, and some other great features not match by any other software. And 10 years, not sure man. They introduced sph, bullet, mpm and other solvers and update them less than that amount of time.