Poly Design has released PolySlicer, a new scripted tool for 3DS Max that creates evenly spaced cross-sections. The developer describes its main purpose as being to quickly produce parametric furniture. Features include: PolySlicer is a 3dsMax plugin for creating parametric furnitures in a few seconds. PolySlicer provides all the workflow from creating slices to unwrapping[…..] […]
Spline Dynamics has released Overnight Batch Render a new tool for 3DS Max that promises the user a simplified way to render files sequentially on a single PC. Features include: Render multiple scene files sequentially on a single computer. Render multiple cameras per scene, taking settings from 3dsMax built-in Batch Render tool. Render different states[…..] […]
SiNi Software has announced the launch of a new magazine aimed at the architectural visualisation industry. Of particular interest to our readers, the inaugural issue features an in-depth interview with the Autodesk 3DS Max team which covers the “past, present and future of the software, and why 3ds Max is built for architectural visualisation. Autodesk[…..] […]
Unigine has announced the release of version 2.10 bringing several significant new features to the real-time engine including a brand new terrain system with a limit of 10000 x 10000km or unlimited if you don’t need to simulate the earth’s curvature. Other new features include an improved C++ and C# API, a high-level Car physics[…..] […]
Triband’s comedic physics puzzler What the Golf? is stuffed with interesting levels that surprise the player in hilarious ways, and at GDC in March you’ll have a chance to see how they were all designed! In a special Independent Games Summit talk titled “100 Trick Pony: Designing ‘WHAT THE GOLF?’” Triband creative director Tim Garbos[…..] […]
“It was fortunate that we went from Kubo and the Two Strings, at the time the biggest scale we had ever pulled off at Laika, to Missing Link because we learned a few things on that film that we expanded upon this time around,” says Missing Link art director Rob DeSue. But even with the[…..] […]
Muhammad Etman has released an updated version of his tool for exchanging scenes between Maya and Clarisse IFX. New features include a redesigned UI, Alembic support, Alembic referencing, animation support, hierarchy preservation for all objects type and more. Learn more about the tool on Gumroad. Maya/Clarisse Bridge Tool V2.0 New Features: – UI redesigned[…..] […]
KeenTools has announced that an open beta of FaceBuilder is now available for Blender. Until now, Facebuilder has only been available for Nuke where it could be used to very quickly create and texture a 3D model of a human head based on photographs. It doesn’t use photogrammetry, FaceBuilder’s workflow relies on the user placing anatomical landmarks[…..] […]
Manifold Garden, the indie puzzle game released earlier this year, does something amazing: it challenges players to navigate virtual worlds built from impossible geometries, evoking a sense of exploring your own personal M.C. Escher painting. It’s a remarkable feat of level design, which is why Game Developers Conference organizers are so excited to confirm that[…..] […]
Isotropix has released a new service pack for Clarisse iFX. New rendering improvements include: A new clamping strategy which clamps the contribution of individual paths in the Path Tracer. This new strategy is also applied to LPEs which now ensures the proper reconstruction of the beauty pass in comp. Greatly improved energy conservation of the[…..] […]
