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Motiva COLIMO 1.0! for windows now shipping with the beta price until Dec. 25

Submitted by Motiva on Wed, 2010-12-22 08:20
28 votes

I'm glad to announce that COLIMO 1.0! RC1 (finished but manual still needs a review) has been released.

Thanks to all the Luxology staff is a must since they kindly have help us to bring this app to Modo 501 using the new SDK.

The current price 79€ will be kept until Christmas day. In that date the final 1.0! will be released and the price will be raised to 139€. We've delay this release date to offer the modo 501 customers the change of get it at beta price for some days.

V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max now available

Submitted by chaossw on Tue, 2010-12-07 04:45
65 votes

V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max comes with V-Ray RT and V-Ray RT GPU included

Chaos Group is pleased to introduce V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max, which is officially on the market starting 6th December 2010.
V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is a complete rendering solution, which combines the power of the well-known V-Ray award-winning production rendering engine with the flexibility and exceptional speed of the interactive rendering system V-Ray RT and the even more impressive new V-Ray RT running on GPUs.

Rendering Revolution Competition

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2010-10-01 06:31
83 votes

Rendering Revolution Competition - Submissions Are Now being Accepted Until October 31!

Here’s your chance to show off your best architectural work through high-quality renderings AND win great prizes! Sponsored by Autodesk®, CGarchitect, and NVIDIA, the Rendering Revolution contest is a global still image architectural visualization competition in celebration of the Autodesk® 3ds Max® 20th Anniversary and advancements in GPU-accelerated rendering solutions.

Pdplayer expands on Mac and Linux

Submitted by chaossw on Tue, 2010-09-21 00:02
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

Submitted by chaossw on Thu, 2010-09-09 04:39
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.

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

Submitted by chaossw on Tue, 2010-08-10 01:19
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.

Autodesk 3ds Max 20th Anniversary

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2010-07-22 11:39
68 votes

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

Congratulation to MAXPlugins.de

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2010-07-12 13:08
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

Chaos Group to present new developments at SIGGRAPH 2010

Submitted by chaossw on Wed, 2010-07-07 07:01
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

10 Year Anniversary Contest #6

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2010-06-19 04:48
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.

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