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GrowFX is a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max, allowing you to build any plants and trees. GrowFX allows you to create extremely realistic trees or can be used to create a single plant or a group of plants. Today exlevel released new version of this plugin, which give users a unique opportunity to manage the colors of branches and leaves by using the Vertex color feature. This release contains new parameter Random scale for Instance geometry and also a new parameter Min size faces for Global Meta Settings. 

Chaos Group is pleased to announce an update to V-Ray 2.0, delivering outstanding new features and improvements, including enhanced GPU functionality using V-RayRT and new Hair and Fur capabilities. So this update allows you rendering hair and fur with unprecedented quality, control, and speed using the new VRayHairMtl shader and VRayHairInfoTex map. Seamlessly render hair is created using Ephere’s Ornatrix plug-in with the new modifier – VrayOrnatrixMod.

All V-Ray fans can apply for the Beta Program for version 1.5 starting 20 December. Now Rhino users can benefit from many new features and improvements including V-Ray RT - a revolutionary new rendering engine that provides instant feedback and streamlines scene setup or  Dome Light, which provides a simple, artifact-free solution for creating image based lighting or Proxy objects, a tool for managing scene memory and efficiently rendering massive amounts of geometry and many more. 

The development team by KeyShot did a great job by the new version of KeyShot 3 and now they released updated plugins for KeyShot. They’re now taking your models directly from SolidWorks, Pro/E, Creo, Rhino and SketchUp right into both KeyShot 2 and KeyShot 3. The main feature of all the plugins is that it will allow you to import your models with both the colors you assigned to it and the assembly/group/layer structure you gave it.