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  Updated SideFX has announced the release of Houdini 19.5 at a 90-minute livestreamed launch event. Some of the new features and improvements include: SOP Flip workflow – Flip Fluid sourcing and solving are available in SOPs SOP Flip Viscosity SOP FLIP Configs – many convenient setups for FLIPs in SOPs including lava, beach, wave, ocean SOP FLIP Boundary – Custom Flip Boundaries SOP FLIP Domains – Resizable domains with multiple collisions within a tank SOP FLIP Uprising – Balance low and high-resolution sims to capture detail where needed Kelvin Wakes – a new time-independent deformer Curve Orientation – Enhanced curve tool with orientation and auto-tangent support Polyscalpel – a versatile cutting tool for curves and surfaces PolyWireUV – UV Generation for polywire geometry, plus the ability to output the rig to pose and deform using KineFX Tools and the ability to animate curves to drive geometry output Pyros source instancing – GPU accelerated instancing and turbulence Environ...

Chaos has announced the release of V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max. This release sees several interesting new features including a real-time clouds system that works with the existing sun and sky tools to create more realistic procedural skies without the need for HDRIs. This release also includes the enigmatically named VrayEnmesh Modifier which allows the user to coat a surface with geometry instead of a texture. Unlike instancing, there is no extra memory used for the repeating geometry which means you can have billions of polygons without any impact on memory consumption. Readers who have seen ICube’s V-Ray Pattern or FStorm’s Geopattern will be familiar with this kind of technology. Talking of Instancing, for the first time V-Ray 6 will include Chaos Scatter, the new improved scattering tool that was introduced recently to Corona Version 8. A new mode is added to the V-Ray Dome light called Finite dome. It allows users to fine-tune the ground projection using 3 new parameters: Radius, Project...