Cebas has announced a new release of its rule-based particle system. New features include: major improvements to the proprietary Physics Solver that now takes full advantage of multiple core systems and offers better accuracy and stability, hierarchical object demolition functions for creating complex demolition sequences, enhanced operator nodes, integrated VolumeBreaker, new modifiers and textures, ability to write complete operator nodes with Maxscript that behave like native ThinkingParticles operators, etc. More at Cebas.com.