3ds Max | News

Pdplayer expands on Mac and Linux

70 votes

For all of you who have eagerly expected the professional sequence player to run on Mac and Linux we are happy to announce its immediate availability. The new features and system support are FREE to all current Pdplayer users and accessible for download from the Chaos Group website.

V-Ray RT GPU opened for Beta experience

78 votes

The upgrade, release and pricing information on V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is also available

We are pleased to announce the start of the V-Ray RT GPU Beta testing program. It is fully integrated within Autodesk 3ds Max and allows up to 30 times faster rendering and real time interaction with the virtual environment. This highly scalable, production ready rendering solution offers a number of new features like real time shading and lights set-up, distributed and cross platform rendering, progressive path tracing and many others.

Autodesk 3ds Max 20th Anniversary

68 votes

Make sure to head on over to The Area for the 20th Anniversary of Autodesk 3ds Max!

The new simulator for fire, smoke and haze Phoenix Fluid Dynamics is released

65 votes

Hot news about the latest product developed by Chaos Group: the fluid dynamics plug-in for 3ds Max Phoenix FD is officially released and available from today, 9th of August 2010.

Phoenix FD is in a promotional period from the 9th of August until 10th of September 2010 with a promotion price of EUR 350/USD 445/GDP 295. The official product price is EUR 695/USD 895/GDP 575.

SoulburnScripts Updated Aug 20th 2008

41 votes

(Copied from Neil Blevins' email list)

Max script update:

Updated several older scripts, here's the major updates:

nameManager: Added a new mode for renaming maps, not just bitmap maps.
texmapPreview:
Added some simple mentalray support.
bitmapCollector:
Now gets maps associated with UnwrapUVW modifiers.
selectionHighlighter:
Now when you turn off the script, it will turn the Preview Selection mode of your objects to what they were before you entered Selection Highlighting mode.
parameterManager:
Now handles the CastShadow property of lights.

10 Year Anniversary Contest #4

61 votes

It's the 10th Anniversary of ScriptSpot and there are quite a few prizes to give away! There will be a new contest and new prizes every Monday and you'll be able to enter those contests by the following Friday (5 days). You may increase your chances of winning by referring your friends! This is the fourth contest and is closed to new entries. See winner announcement below. 

10 Year Anniversary Contest #6

59 votes

It's the 10th Anniversary of ScriptSpot and there are quite a few prizes to give away! There will be a new contest and new prizes every Monday and you'll be able to enter those contests by the following Friday (5 days). You may increase your chances of winning by referring your friends! This is the sixth contest and is closed to new entries. See winner announcement at bottom.

Chaos Group to present new developments at SIGGRAPH 2010

58 votes

Chaos Group will be giving demos of Phoenix and V-Ray RT at this year’s SIGGRAPH. They will also be holding a public event showing how V-Ray can be integrated with post production tools into studios’ pipelines. Also of note, Chaos Group and the CGschool will be offering an 8-hour thorough training event called “The Best of V-Ray” that covers various issues including speed, detail, and noise in renders, animation techniques for static and non-static scenes, practical lighting of exterior and interior scenes, etc.

Chaos Group Booth 612
SIGGRAPH Exhibition floor 27th-29th of July, 9.30-6.00 pm

More at www.chaosgroup.com

Congratulation to MAXPlugins.de

46 votes

Everyone's favorite plugin resource site - maxplugins.de is celebrating their 10th anniversary today! A huge thanks to David Baker who not only keeps maxplugins.de updated but maintains the sourcecode of many free plugins for each new version of 3ds Max!

Read David's anniversary post here: http://www.maxplugins.de/maxnews.php#id4705

10 Year Anniversary Contest #5

59 votes

It's the 10th Anniversary of ScriptSpot and there are quite a few prizes to give away! There will be a new contest and new prizes every Monday and you'll be able to enter those contests by the following Friday (5 days). You may increase your chances of winning by referring your friends! This is the fifth contest and is closed to new entries. See winner announcement below! 

Syndicate content