Our partner TurboSquid has officially released their Autodesk Certified Animation Plug-in tools for 3ds Max 2010 and 3ds Max Design 2010. This collection of 3rd party tools represents some of the most important technologies to our users and we’re thrilled to see them released within 3 weeks of the launch of the 2010 product line. We know that our users rely on many of these products and hopefully their availability will let everyone migrate over and take advantage of all of the cool new features that 3ds Max 2010 offers.

Here’s a list of the plug-in tools now available:

• AfterBurn 4.0b (32-bit & 64-bit flavors)
• DreamScape 2.5e (32-bit & 64-bit flavors)
• FumeFX 1.2 (32-bit & 64-bit flavors) Now w/ mental ray support!!
• Kaldera (32-bit & 64-bit flavors)
• NodeJoe 1.11 (32-bit & 64-bit flavors)
• Texture Layers 2 (32-bit & 64-bit flavors)
• rtre v2.1 (32-bit only – there is currently no 64-bit version)

The ACAP Storefront for those of you interested in these tools is:

Also, Beau Perschall @ TurboSquid there tells me that the nPower plug-ins are due out within another week or so, and that Particle Flow Tools: Box 3 Pro is also scheduled for release in May. In the meantime, he says that existing plug-in owners can get their free updates of these tools by contacting the TurboSquid Member Services team at the following link: