3 top plugins for 3D artists' toolkits

By Creative Bloq Staff
( 3D World )
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Everyone working in the 3D industry should know about these handy plugins; do you?

03. X-Particles (Cinema 4D)

X-Particles enables artists to create a huge variety of effects

X-Particles enables artists to create a huge variety of effects

Fast, high-quality rendering and improved fluids are among the benefits on offer from X-Particles, a full-featured particle system for Cinema 4D developed by well-known members of the C4D community Steve Pedler, Mike Batchelor and David O'Reilly – known collectively as Insydium Ltd.

X-Particles offers a multi-threaded alternative to Cinema 4D’s native particle systems, combining particle tools, fluid simulation and multiphysics constraints into a single package, enabling users to create a huge variety of effects.

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