Genetica is Spiral Graphics' popular seamless texture, animation, and HDRI environment map editor. If you want to make log or detailing textures, you can try to use one of new features of this release called simply “Text” with which you can create text directly within Genetica eventually turn your text into stone, wood, glass, metal, and more.
Cebas released the third service pack for their amazing particle system thinkingParticles 4 which now is supporting Autodesk® 3ds Max® and 3ds Max Design®. The new service pack brings with him new features and also several bug fixes. thinkingParticles 4 is a rule-based particle system which offer unparalleled power to the user. The particle system completely redefines fluid, rigid body and particle F/X simulation and has been used for the latest movies like Thor, Sucker Punch and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Lightstorm3D will release this week new updates, which take L3Deformer to version v1.0.1 and L3Library to version v1.0.3. This update will free of charge.
In L3Deformer v1.0.1 they started to replace more Maya API classes and methods with their own technology that supports multithreading. Performance of texture and curve deformer has been increased.
Allegorithmic released a free animated loop able caustics map. In Cg caustic can be generated using a render engine supporting Global Illumination, this will however raise your render time from minutes to hours. Allegorthimc used Substance to create a real-time dynamic and animate able caustics map which can be used to fake caustic generated from a pool or ocean. This map can save you hours of render time and the end result is really impressive.
Allegorithmic released for free his Wooden Floor Material Generator for Autodesk 3DsMax 2012 and Autodesk Maya2012. With this you can create realistic parquet in just minutes. The task to create a realistic looking material to simulate parquet is not easy; each floorboard must be unique, uneven with its own properties and defects. Allegorithmic created a powerful dedicated filter allowing creating unique parquet floors, recreating all the subtle imperfections that will give life to your imagery.
