Originally L3 Texture was designed as an extension to L3 Deformer toolset. For now only this beta software provides 15 new nodes to build advanced texture networks in Maya. The plugin contains procedural noise textures, regular pattern generators, coordinate displacement nodes and additional utilities. All texture features are fully animatable and mapable. Combination of procedural textures results in a huge amount of pattern. 

Cebas visual technology will do a preview of their upcoming release of their new psd-manager 3.0 a file exporter for Autodesk 3DsMax. With the new release of psd-manager 3.0 you can export scene layers from 3DsMax directly to Photoshop without the need of assigning IDs to objects also the new release supports high dynamic range and color precision of Photoshop files, support for the complete Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 and 3ds Max Design 2012 product line and many more features. A gallery below shows the results which you can do using the manager.

E-on software the developers of VUE and LumenRT announced immediately arability of Carbon Scatter for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya, and Maxon Cinema4D. Carbon Scatter is the easiest way for creating complex and detailed populations using your favorite 3D application. The Carbon Scatter plug-ins integrate e-on's patented EcoSystem™ algorithms directly inside leading CG applications, allowing you to populate your scenes with millions of native objects, and render them with your favorite renderer.

Next Limit released a new version of their Realflow plugin taking the fluid dynamics simulator from the version 5.x to 2012. The updates includes several improvements starting from the GUI to Hybrido engine, performance improvements and also several bugs were fixed and the plugin is free for download for registered users. Huge improvements were done to Hybrido workflow and performance in this version featuring new features like Dripping water, automatic foam generation, New emitters and much more. Taking the Realflow 2012 to a new level Next Limit is introducing new tools inside Caronte rigid-body engine;