Syflex is now available for the newest release of Autodesk Maya2012. This new release decrease the initialization time by a factor of up to 100 on cloths with more than 50,000 vertices. Syflex is a cloth simulation plugin for Maya bringing new possibilities by cloth animation and simulation. It’s a very easy to use and very fast, on a quad core Syflex is 15 times faster than similar products on the market.
Today is released new version of this plugin, which give users a unique opportunity to create the wind animation of the plants easily and quickly. New version consider e.g. support for the Nitrous viewport display mode in 3ds Max 2012 or new option Flip normals for Leaves mesh which allows you to invert the normals of polygons in leaves.
GroundWiz from Gugila was updated to version 1.800 which is compatible now with 3ds Max 2012 & 3ds Max Design 2012. GroudWiz is a plugin with which help you can easily make nature scenes. The plugin consists from three major parts; GroundWiz Procedural Terrain Map– which is a procedural map for 3DsMax. With the help of the map you can control and generate realistic terrain textures on which you can apply GroundWiz Planter. The planter controls millions of objects in 3DsMax which represents vegetation, rocks and other elements in nature. The last part is GroundWiz Variation Map which allows you to quickly add colorvariation to materials.
Allegorithmic has just released new toolkit for normal map generation and grunge. This new toolkit allow users to grunge procedurally textures in 3DsMax 2012, Autodesk Flame 2012 and Maya 2012 or to generate so called grunge presets like a brush to use in your favorite 2D software like Photoshop.
The grunge toolkit can be used for:
- Add an old & dirty effect to your textures
- Blend two materials or textures progressively directly in 3DS Max or Maya
- Generate hundreds of grunge brushes in seconds for your 2D editing software
Realflow was updated for 3DsMax on version v.5.0.4. In this version was fixed several bugs which cause 3DsMax to crash and others. Also this update fix corrupted MaxstartUI.mnu file. The bug fix list you can see below.
