RayFire 1.58 is a complete plugin for 3ds max which allows you to create all sorts of distruction. With RayFire you can create dynamic simulations with thousands of objects. You can create Demolitions and explosion within 3ds max. Below are the new features in RayFire 1.58

http://www.rayfirestudios.com

Brazil based site Tres D1 has launched a new collection of 3d Trucks and Trailers. The collection contains 20 models of trucks and trailers which can be composed and you can have 70 different combinations. Each model is modelled in detail and with high quality textures for Mental Ray and Vray.

http://www.tresd1.com.br/dvds/bibliotecas/biblioteca-supermodelos-03

A fantastic tutorial to make complex fiber texture which can be a good example on how to make a 3D Towel , Carpet or Grass with the same concept.To replicate this is cg, the obvious solution is to use a hair system to produce those fibers. The results will look good, especially close up, but that technique is perhaps overkill, especially if the object is off in the distance. Hair can be expensive to render, and time consuming to set up. So this tutorial explains a method to do objects such as Towels, Carpets or Grass using displacement.

Read More : http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/towels_carpet_grass/towels_carpet_grass.htm

Chaos Group officially announced Vray 2.30.1 for 3ds max 2013

New Features

• Support for 3ds Max 2013;
• Support for the new shading features of Hair & Fur in
3ds Max 2013;
• VRayOrnatrixMod: support for Ornatrix 2.0;
• Added a “Matte for reflection/refraction” option to the
VRayWrapperMtl material and the V-Ray object settings;
• V-Ray RT and V-Ray RT GPU: support for motion blur
(transformation and deformation) both in ActiveShade mode
and as a production renderer;
• V-Ray RT GPU: added a CUDA engine, in addition to OpenCL
(the CUDA engine requires a Fermi or Kepler card and the
newest nVidia drivers);

Modified features:

• VRayOrnatrixMod: support for Ornatrix thickness maps;
• Added the possibility to specify a preview mesh for the
vrayMeshExport MaxScript function;
• Support for motion blur of V-Ray mesh lights;
• Reduced memory usage and increased speed for dynamic
geometry (proxies, displacement etc.) in specific situations;
• VRayHDRI: added crop/place options to VRayHDRI;
• VRayHDRI: added Output and curves rollout to VRayHDRI;
• VRayHDRI: added Output and curves rollout to VRayHDRI;
• vrimg2exr: added support for RLE compression method for
OpenEXR files to vrimg2exr;
• VFB: the V-Ray VFB ICC color correction now takes into account
the gamma value from the Color Mapping settings of V-Ray;
• VRayPtex: increased the default cache size for VRayPtex
textures;
• V-Ray scene converter: now converts IES lights and
Mental Ray Sun/Sky in a Daylight system;
• V-Ray RT GPU: support for sub-pixel filtering;
• V-Ray RT GPU: ability to use full resolution textures;
• V-Ray RT GPU: option to specify material texture bit depth to
help control GPU memory usage;

Read More : http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/news.html

VisCorbel has released a new Architectural Exterior  Visualization Tutorial. After dozens of requests from 3d users viscorbel finally put in weeks of hard work and presents its Exterior Visualization video tutorial. The video tutorial covers "how to"
* Set up cad drawings for modeling;
* Model the building;
* Use Batzal Roof Designer plug-in for creating 3D roof shingles;
* Create materials and textures for the building;
* Model the ground and paths;
* Model the grass and flowers;
* Scatter the grass and flowers with Itoo Software Forest Pack plug-in;
* Create and texture a birch tree with Exlevel GrowFX plug-in;
* Set up 3 lighting scenarios – Sunny / Overcast / Night (using V-Ray sun and sky as well as HDRI)
* Post-production in Photoshop to make your images stand out.

The complete video is narrated and is just about 15 hours long. It’s a 6GB download, and you can access it instantly after the payment!

Read More : http://viscorbel.com/exterior-visualization/

Advance Painter
Advanced Painter is a modular brush-based distribution tool derrived from the Nature Painter script. This tool comes with 7

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/copy-paste-biped-animation

Architools 3D has developed it new Cityscape generator that allows you to create urban landscape for gaming world, films and archaeology. With this new technology you can create city models with thousands of buildings in just a few clicks. With their plugin you can create vast urban landscapes in exactly the level of detail you need. Save huge amouts of time when modeling historical, contemporary or even futuristic cityscapes. The first version of their software as a plugin for Autodesk 3ds Max will be released soon.

http://www.architools3d.com/en/

Poland based CGAxis has announced a spring sale offer of 55%. CGAxis has a wide variety of  and quality based collection of 3d models. The offer is applicable for all its collection which include Architecture, Bathroom, Plants, Food, Furniture and more…
Its a nice time to grab some collections for your daily use.

More at : http://www.cgaxis.com/cmspage.php?page_id=13

Ken Pimentel has posted some info that features the upcoming future release of 3ds max 2013 developments. Among the highlights, the post mentions that Autodesk has hired once again Oleg Bayborodin, the original author of Particle Flow, to research and develop new Particle Flow capabilities for Max and integrate it with XBR’s unified physics system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBhMPm9HtPc&feature=youtu.be