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MaxUnderground has a review of Allan McKay’s new tutorial DVD, Creature FX Volume 1, aimed at Particle Flow, FumeFX, and 3dsMax.

The end result is professional and good looking for a tutorial. If you are interested in learning how to create procedural texture animations for creatures and how to use Particle Flow with animated characters together with FumeFX, you most likely will find this tutorial informative.

The amount of content offered in the tutorial compared to the price is good and worth the purchase. As this is ”Volume 1”, most likely more ”Creature FX” tutorials will follow.

via Creature FX Volume 1 DVD review – Max Underground.

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The Particle Flow Tools Box from Orbaz has been PhysX accelerated for some time, but only in the 32-bit version of 3ds Max.  The latest version, version 1.05, now supports the true 64-bit version.

“1.05 version of Box#2 Pro uses 64-bit PhysX SDK v.2.8.3. That allowed us to switch completely to native PhysX libs for both 32- and 64-bit versions. The new version works without restrictions on 64-bit flavors of Win XP, Vista and Windows 7. The update is not a beta, and it is available to all licensed users of Box#2 Pro.

via Particle Flow Tools Box 2: now with true 64-bit PhysX | PhysXInfo.com – PhysX News.

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Orbaz Technologies has posted a video showing some of the impressive features in the new ParticleFlow Toolbox Box#2 Pro suite.  With new features allowing you to bind particles to any mesh, they open a whole new world of using particles for soft-body simulations and cloth-simulations complete with tearing.  It’s an impressive video, and with the latest version it’s PhysX accelerated on NVidia hardware.

Particle Flow Tools: Box#2 Pro by Orbaz Technologies.

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