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Phoenix FD released
10.8.2010
Chaos Group have released their new fluid simulation package Phoenix FD. One month introductory pricing.
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GCarchitect´s graphics card roundup
28.7.2010
CGarchitect has just published a very comprehensive review of the top graphics cards from NVIDIA and ATI.
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Ronen Bekerman launches Archviz Challenge II - HOVER
24.7.2010
HOVER started July 21st 2010, Duration 3 Months, Deadline October 21st 2010.
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CGarchitect.coms 3D Awards 2010 winners announced
9.7.2010
The winners for the 2010 CGarchitect Architectural 3D Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!
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Phoenix FD sneak peek
9.7.2010
Phoenix FD is a new fluid simulation plug-in for 3ds Max. Chaos Group have let us take a sneak peek at some of the features in this package scheduled for release later this year.
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PDPlayer Beta Program for Linux and Mac OS
15.6.2010
Ghaos Group are now accepting applications to be part of the PDPlayer beta program!
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Launch of New Visualization School Sheds Light On The Visualization Industry
29.4.2010
Three visualization industry powerhouses have joined forces to form a world-class training school for professional and aspiring visualization artists.
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2010 CGarchitect 3D Awards - Call For Entries
10.4.2010
The CGarchitect 3D Awards are here again! The call for entries has just opened for images, animations and real-time submissions. The Deadline is May 31, 2010, so submit soon
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Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 release in progress.
6.4.2010
Subscription users are able to download 3ds Max 2011 from the subscription site now.
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Review: PDPlayer 1.0.4.14
12.3.2010
At first glance PDPlayer may seem like a basic frame sequence player, but after exploring the myriad of features you will soon realize that this is a very powerful tool. This review takes a look at what PDPlayer is capable of.
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Free computer hardware advice from 3DATS for people in the CG and architecture community
3.3.2010
3DATS launches a new blog discussing computer hardware for the architectural visualization field. Featuring CGarcitect moderator and hardware guru Andrew Lynn, this blog will be updated regularly with relevant hardware info for the industry.
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Massive 4.0, supporting V-Ray rendering, is now available.
18.2.2010
Massive Software, developer of the Academy Award®-winning 3D animation software for AI-driven characters, has released Massive 4.0. The latest release includes support for V-Ray rendering, new terrain nodes, enhanced brain nodes and more.
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SnowFlow - Automatic snow generation in scenes and on objects.
7.2.2010
Zwischendrin have released SnowFlow 1.6, a snow generator for 3ds Max.
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Physical Ocean Shader
4.1.2010
DL3D have developed a V-Ray for 3ds Max compatible displacement/surface shader for creating realistic animated ocean surfaces.
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The new VRay.info Shop is online.
3.1.2010
In cooperation with CGArchitect.com the VRay.info Shop is one of our newest initiatives put together to help the community with all of their visualization needs.
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HDRSource updated
27.12.2009
HDRSource recently released a completely revised website containing new High Dynamic Range Images with a main focus on 3d applications.
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Retweet for T-shirts
29.11.2009
Follow us on twitter, you could win a free T-shirt!
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HDModels Cars vol. 4 from Evermotion
16.11.2009
HD Models Cars volume 4 gives you ten highly detailed car models.
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Aversis HDRI Webshop celebrates its first birthday with huge discounts.
15.10.2009
The site has been updated with new navigation, lots of new HDRI maps and last but not least some massive discounts on all the HDRI maps!
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HDR Light Studio 1.5 reviewed
8.10.2009
Lightmap Ltd. released HDRI Studio 1.5 today. VRay.info has updated the 1.0 review to include the 1.5 features.
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Building Generator MAX script
29.9.2009
Tyson Ibele's amazing free script will model and create complete cities, and even creates V-Ray Proxies and materials automatically.
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Chaos Software and Asynthetic release Pdplayer 1.0.3.8
29.9.2009
The new version now suports RED (R3D) files.
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Zwischendrin HDR rendering contest 2009
9.9.2009
Zwischendrin recently started their HDR rendering contest 2009.
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New T-shirt store!
16.8.2009
The VRay.info T-shirt store is back, with a much larger selection than before
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Siger Shaders V-RayMaterialPresetsPro v.1.0
15.8.2009
V-Ray Material Presets Pro is a material collection preset Macroscript for 3ds Max and V-Ray.
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Autograss for V-Ray released
13.8.2009
A one-click grass solution completely integrated with V-Ray.
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New and updated egzVRay materials in beta
2.8.2009
The egzVRay materials are finally being updated to support V-Ray 1.5 SP3. Those interested may apply for beta testing.
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3ds Max 2010 and 3ds Max Design 2010 SP1 released
1.8.2009
Autodesk has released Service Pack 1 for both versions of 3ds Max 2010 fixing numerous problems.
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Lumiere released
31.7.2009
Richard Rosenman has released Lumiere, a Photoshop plugin capable of generating advanced glow effects.
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HDR Light Studio 1.0 reviewed
29.7.2009
VRay.info reviews Protograph's HDRI creation tool
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VRayScatter 2.5.5 is out
25.7.2009
iCube have recently released an update to VRayScatter containing several new features.
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MatManager now available.
14.7.2009
MatManager is a new commercial script for 3ds max designed to help users work more efficiently with materials. It's fully compatible with V-Ray materials.
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VRay.info is twittering
13.7.2009
Follow us on twitter to get news and other tweets
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New SolidRocks Version: 0.85a
8.7.2009
This version adds Vray RT / SP3 / max 2010 compatibility among other things.
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Should we print more T-Shirts?
7.7.2009
We are all out of teapot T-shirts, should we print more? Should we create other designs, chose other colors or types of apparel? Leave a comment with your views or ideas.
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First V-Ray authorized renderfarm
3.7.2009
Chaos Software and RANCH Computing, a leading provider of high-performance 3D rendering services, announced the RANCH as an authorized renderfarm for V-Ray / 3ds Max projects.
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VHDRI Skies Out Now!
27.5.2009
Hyperfocal Design offers its most ambitious product yet with its new VHDRI Skies collection. The sky panoramas weigh in at a huge 14,000 x 7,000 pixels with very high dynamic range - up to 17 stops.
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Siger Textures release three new DVD collections of wood flooring textures
14.1.2009
Each DVD contains 50 lossless (png format) textures at a 6000×6000px resolution.
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Texturefly launches new online texture store.
5.11.2008
Masked images and textures now available for the 3d graphic artist and architectural illustrator.
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VRay - THE COMPLETE GUIDE - English pre-order
10.10.2008
Treddi.com is glad to announce the beginning of the Pre-order phase for the English version of the book.
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Siggraph 2008 V-Ray User Group Video 2
6.10.2008
Jimmy presents the features of PDPlayer
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3ds Max 2009 Architectural Visualization – Intermediate to Advanced Now Shipping
1.10.2008
3DATS announces the shipping of its second 3ds Max book dedicated to architectural visualization industry: 3ds Max 2009 Architectural Visualization – Intermediate to Advanced.
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VRayProxy Animation Control
21.9.2008
A new script by Leandro Salerno for controlling the new animated deforming mesh support in the VRayProxy object in VRay 1.50.SP2
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VRayScatter is out
15.9.2008
R&D Group released VRayScatter plugin for 3ds max and Vray. This plugin lets generate huge amounts of objects in split seconds.
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Greeblelicious
6.8.2008
A community gallery website devoted to greeble artistry.
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VRay Scatter Demo
25.7.2008
Rendermania have posted a demo of VRayScatter.
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Solid Rocks Beta 0.52 released
9.7.2008
A new version of the VRay render setup plugin is released.
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VRay Scatter
8.7.2008
Create huge forests or cities with VRayProxies
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PDPlayer feature list revealed
5.7.2008
Chaos Software have announced the feature list of their upcoming sequence player.
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Archinteriors vol. 14 released
19.5.2008
10 textured and shadered visualization scenes ready to be rendered.
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Archexteriors vol. 1 for Cinema4D and V-Ray
6.5.2008
Evermotion's Archexteriors vol. 1 is now available in a Cinema 4D version.
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HDRI-locations released
6.5.2008
Thomas Suurland has released a new collection of hires HDRIs + matching backplates for virtual car photography.
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3ds Max 2009 and 3ds Max Design 2009 are shipping
5.4.2008
Autodesk has started shipping the latest version(s) of 3ds Max.
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New MBM Training modules: VRay Overview Series
2.4.2008
The team at Mentalboutmax have released the first Modules in their NEW Vray Overview Series.
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HDRI-Studio
24.3.2008
Hires studio light environments reviewed.
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Super Material PRO V3.0
31.12.2007
Manage your V-ray materials,easy remove missing maps
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Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 now released
18.10.2007
3ds Max 2008 has now been released. Subscription customers should be receiving their upgrades within 7-10 days.
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Vray Batch Render PRO
9.10.2007
A fully automated batch rendering tool for V-Ray
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SolidRocks Beta 0.4
4.10.2007
SolidRocks is a VRay render settings automator for 3ds max and VRay.
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New tutorial
27.9.2007
Creating V-Ray displacement maps from hi poly tiling geometry
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The Sphere Project released
21.11.2006
CGSphere.com is a website dedicated to the evolution of technical and creative 3D sphere design and you're invited to participate!
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Autodesk 3ds Max 9 now shipping
16.10.2006
3ds Max 9 is now shipping in both 32 and 64 bit versions.
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Texturama.com Releases the World’s First “Build-Your-Own” Professional Texture Collection.
16.6.2006
3D Graphics professionals and game developers now have the ability to build a large seamless texture collection online by choosing their own images from a large database of images.
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Architectural visualization salary survey
27.3.2006
CGarchitect.com has just launched the 2006 architectural visualization salary survey.
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New archmodel collection CDs
12.1.2006
Evermotion have released the vol.19 to 21 of their model collection.
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Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Alias
10.1.2006
Autodesk, Inc. today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Alias for cash consideration of $197 million USD.
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3ds Max 8 SP1
6.1.2006
3ds Max 8 Service Pack 1 is now available
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Rendercore extends special campaign
5.1.2006
To ring in the New Year and with positive feedback from clients, the promotional offer of Unlimited Monthly Pass has been extended until January 31, 2006
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The123d Boardroom Kit
20.12.2005
The123d announces its Boardroom Kit - the first in a new series of model collections in .MAX .3DS & .MAX Vray file formats.
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Rendercore launches unlimited remote rendering solution
12.12.2005
Flat Monthly Rate Pricing Model provides an incentive for creative organizations.
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HDRSource HDR Skies Volume 1
11.12.2005
HDRSource is proud to announce Skies Volume 1 DVD for retail.
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Rendercore launches remote rendering solution
5.12.2005
Supporting three new versions of leading industry software packages:Vray, Brazil r/s, Cinema 4D
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Simian VRay Materials vol. 1 released
22.11.2005
A collection of five V-Ray Architectural Material shaders for 3ds max.
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Archmodels vol. 16 - Modern Furniture
22.11.2005
Evermotion have released the 16th CD in their model collection.
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3ds Max 8 shipping
7.10.2005
Autodesk have started shipping 3ds Max 8
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Autodesk to aquire Alias
5.10.2005
Today Autodesk and Alias announced the signing of a definitive agreement for Autodesk to acquire Alias.
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Fanghorn Layer Manager
15.9.2005
Fangorn Layer Manager is a powerful new layer manager for 3ds Max.
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Teapot T-shirts are back in stock
14.9.2005
Now available in six additional colors.
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Cavemen Should Drink Milk!
1.9.2005
CG Society has interviewed Ruairi Robinson on the production of the Cavemen ads for DDB Canada.
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More archmodels from Evermotion
31.8.2005
Evermotion has just released their 10th CD with architectural models.
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Global Illumination - Exteriors
28.7.2005
Gnomon Workshop has just released a new DVD covering GI exterior lighting techniques with VRay.
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New archmodels CDs out now
27.7.2005
Evermotion release vol 5 and 6 of their architectural model collection.
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New T-shirts - Make a Statement!
29.6.2005
New teapot design now available in our T-shirt store
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Chaos Group website redesign
5.6.2005
The new and improved Chaos Group website launched this weekend.
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T-shirt sale in June
1.6.2005
We are clearing out the last few rendermonkey T-shirts. $3 off all T-shirts in June! This is your last chance to get this limited edition T-shirt!
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Free HDRI CD collection from Evermotion
9.5.2005
Evermotion have created a large collection of free HDRI files.
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Res Power renderfarm adds support for VRay
6.5.2005
ResPower is a 2.9+ THz self-service renderfarm. They have recently worked with Chaos Group to provide VRay rendering to their clients.
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VRay consultancy
23.3.2005
UK based Rendertime has started offering a VRay consultancy service.
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Tutorial: Photorealistic rendering with VRay
2.2.2005
New VRay tutorial by Dragos Jieanu on the123d.com
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Tutorial: Making of the Bathroom Scene
21.12.2004
Joshua Staub has written an exclusive 'making of' for his excellent 'Bathroom Scene' for the123d.com
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Dosch 3D: Cars 2004
10.12.2004
Need cars for your exterior renderings? New 3D-model car collection from Dosch Design
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VRay.info T-shirts
3.11.2004
Get yours now while supply lasts.
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AURA version 0.60.01
15.10.2004
The next public build of AURA is available for download.
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3ds max® 7 shipping
13.10.2004
Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. announced today it has begun shipping the latest version of its award-winning professional 3D modeling, animation and rendering software 3ds max® 7
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AURA Public Beta released
8.9.2004
Chaos Group today released AURA for public beta.
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Aura public beta
2.9.2004
Yesterday Chaos Group announced the start date for the public beta testing phase of its fluid-based fire and smoke simulation plugin code-named Aura.
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More details on AURA available
31.3.2004
Chaos Group have released more details and more sample animations from AURA 0.50.00
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Chaotic Dimension did a total re-design of their website.
5.2.2004
Go check it out!
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HDRI volume 1.0
1.2.2004
Ricahrd Rosenman has released HDRI volume 1.0
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The RenderNode Magazine
22.8.2003
The RenderNode Magazine will be reviewing VRay in its preview issue this September.
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Evermotion Video Tutorials
21.8.2003
The evermotion video tutorials are back online.
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discreet announce 3ds max 6
29.7.2003
Detailed information about the upcoming release of 3ds max 6 is now available on the discreet website.
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Review of HDRIbase
26.7.2003
Metin Seven reviews HDRIbase 1 and 2.
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Free video tutorials
11.6.2003
Evermotion has released 5 free video tutorials to help beginners get started with VRay.
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New AURA previews
27.5.2003
Chaos Group have released a few new AURA test animations.
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OpenEXR loader for 3ds max
22.5.2003
Splutterfish have released their free OpenEXR loader for 3ds max
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SimCloth 3 released!
2.5.2003
Version 3 of the free cloth simulation plugin by Vladimir Koylazov (Vlado) has just been released.
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Aura gallery updated
17.4.2003
Chaos Group have updated the Aura gallery with smoke images and animations.
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Aura announced
22.3.2003
Chaos Group announces a new fluid engine - code-name AURA
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VRay.info on new server
7.11.2002
The site was moved to a high bandwidth server today.
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