Tyson Ibele has announced the release of TyFlow Pro and revealed pricing and licensing details.
TyFlow Pro, is the new commercial version of the highly regarded suite of particle, simulation, and modifier tools for 3ds Max that has built an enthusiastic following during its free beta over the last 3 years.
TyFlow Pro is released under a perpetual licensing scheme with a maintenance plan option. New licenses will cost $495, although this is discounted to $395 until March 1. This price includes a year of maintenance which can be renewed for $295 if it is done within 30 days of expiry.
A free version is also available which includes nearly all of the features of the Pro version except for multi-threading, GPU acceleration, and TyCache export. The Free beta version also remains available but will, of course, no longer be updated.
TyFlow has been updated continuously through the beta period, and this release is no exception with the addition of a new Select operator for selecting particles in the viewport with a mouse for further processing, a new tyFlex modifier that’s an alternative to 3ds Max’s Flex modifier but with caching and multithreading, and instance material override options in the tyCache object.
To find out more, including an FAQ, visit the plugin’s new website.
Good pricing and good licensing model, well done Tyson 🙂
Congratulations Tyson! What a Journey! After all great product and great pricing. You rock!
What an exciting 3 years has been!
The price only for the 20+ modifiers will be fair, but then you have one of the most brilliant particle systems available in top, its just a no brainer.
Thanks Tyson for keep pushing the bar, vfx today its a little more fun because of tyflow. Just waiting for the floating license to start buying tyflow in bulk.
This is great news and the pricing model looks fair – great job.
excellent and a good price.
its the the only good thing about max now vray stopped development to focus on extracting maxium fees from its users..
i hope tyflow it gets proper documentation and better learning resources.
The V-Ray part of your statement is not true; development is going as always and each V-Ray update has brought many improvements and new features as well as other workflow improvements including Cosmos.
Good luck to Tyson; once a software goes commercial, users’ attitudes tend to change 😉
Vray and Chaos software are the best commercial tools for 3dsmax since a long time and I hope it will continue to be. Btw Congratulation to Tyson for this great release
Don`t mind… Vray still is a great Programm.. and worth its Price.
Vlado, you are right in terms of development. But in the past I could buy my software, now I have to rent chaos player. For me this is not the way to go and I don´t like it.
Vlado, please reconsider your latest move – making Phoenix rental-only is a huge disappointment in my book, preventing me from upgrading my perpetual license further is a flat out anti-consumer move. Why not follow iToo’s/tyFlow’s business model? You buy it once, and get a maintenance period. That would be fair. Is Vray bound to end up being subscription only, too?
Phonix is renting only, too? Not good. We skip all renting tools and use other ones instead. One reason we said goodbye to Cebas Thinking Particles long time ago. So sad, that chaos group is going the same wrong direction.
On the other side: This speeds up the transition to Blender and Open Source even more, just read this article: Open Source Under the North Sea – fxguide
Hey,
if you’d like to upgrade to the latest version of Phoenix, there is a special option for all perpetual license holders. To learn more shoot us an email through the form at https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new#regular-login and the Chaos people will help you out 🙂
Hopefully we’ll see more competition in the fluids & smoke area. Perpetual pricing is missing in this area of the industry.
Please provide proof that Chaos stopped development of Vray.
Off topic: I stand for vray here. They never stopped developing it and it is still way ahead of other render engines. Pricing model changes and yes, we don’t like it in most cases.. But for vray it’s worth the money.
On topic: I wonder if there would be discount for buying multiple copies of tyFlow. Like GrowfX for example
Great job, Tyson. Autodesk should pay you an extra fee, for every license sold, since you save 3dsmax for them 😉 What worries me is a missing floating license option. Does “node locked” really mean one machine, or is there at least an option to online activate/deactivate?
Its very early days for the Pro version. From the Facebook comments alone there is mention that different licensing options are currently being explored.
You can activate/deactivate as much as you like, but Tyson has said he wants to explore floating licences down the road.
perpetual licensing!!!!!!
yes, absolute right way!
What an effort. It’s like applying gold foil over poop.
Do you mean this as an analogy for developing plugins for 3Ds Max?
Elaborate, please.
I mean that this buggy bloated obsolete windows only crapware doesn’t deserve any good plugin to fix what its incompetent/lazy/disrespectful parent company do not fix nor add natively.
Just buy it without thinking
Well done Tyson! All the best for the product success!
I still wonder why Autodesk has not grabbed this long time ago
And this is a very fair move, too: “The Beta version had no limitations. You may continue to use it for free, forever.” (at least for 3ds Max 2022 and below…)
Well done! Is there an education License on the horizon?