| 3D STUDIO MAX |
| Model efficiently, animate easily, and achieve stunning results in less time with 3ds Max software. There’s no other tool out that I feel is as universal as 3ds Max for creating 3D. |
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| Streamline Your Rendering Workflows |
| With 3ds Max software, Autodesk introduces Review—a powerful new toolset that supports iterative rendering workflows by delivering interactive previewing of shadows, the 3ds Max sun/sky environment, and mental ray® Architectural and design material settings. This release also provides many new, timesaving 3ds Max/mental ray workflow features, including Sky Portal lighting options, a camera-based interface for exposure settings, and
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| Rapidly Automate and Customize Your Workflows |
| 3ds Max marks the debut of MAXScript ProEditor. This new MAXScript editor provides script-writers with a professional, intelligent interface for working with MAXScript that streamlines the scripting workflow—making it easier to author scripts that automate and customize 3ds Max. |
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| Import Data Quickly and Accurately |
| deeper support for the DWG™ file format results in faster, more accurate importing of data from other popular Autodesk applications such as AutoCAD® , AutoCAD® Architecture , and Revit® Architecture software. New features, such as Select Similar, also facilitate working with imported
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| Accelerate your creative workflow and increase your pipeline efficiency. Autodesk® 3ds Max® 3d modeling, animation, and rendering software helps design visualization professionals, game developers, and visual effects artists maximize productivity by streamlining the process of working with complex scenes. |
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| Easily View and Handle Large, Complex Scenes |
| 3ds Max software delivers new viewport technology and optimizations that result in vastly improved interaction with even the largest, most complex scenes. Common tasks and operations— selection, material assignment, transform, grouping, cloning, and many more—are now significantly faster, making 3ds Max the most streamlined version of the software ever. Plus, a new Scene Explorer makes managing large scenes—and interacting with hundreds, or even thousands of objects—far more intuitive. |
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| Accelerated Performance |
| The integration of new technology into the software’s Adaptive degradation System improves interactive performance by automatically simplifying scene display to meet a user-defined target frame rate. You control how 3ds Max adjusts scene display—for example, whether the smallest objects are hidden or distant objects have less detail—and 3ds Max calculates how best to achieve it. When combined with the new direct3d® mesh caching that groups objects by materials, the result is that tens of thousands of objects can be just as interactive as ten objects. In addition, loading, arrays, FBX® and OBJ export, and other areas of the software perform significantly faster. |
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| Scene Explorer Scene Management |
| 3ds Max delivers Scene Explorer, a robust new tool that provides a hierarchical view of scene data and fast scene analysis, as well as editing tools that facilitate working with even the most complex, object-heavy scenes. Scene Explorer gives you the ability to sort, filter, and search a scene by any object type or property (including metadata)—with stackable filtering, sorting, and searching criteria. This new tool also enables you to save and store multiple Explorer instances and to link, unlink, rename, hide, freeze, and delete objects, regardless of what objects are currently selected in the scene. You can also configure columns to display and edit any object property, and because this feature is scriptable and SdK extendable, you can use callbacks to add custom column definitions. |
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| Review |
| This powerful new toolset gives you immediate feedback on various render settings, enabling you to iterate rapidly. This means you can now quickly hone in on your desired look without waiting for a software render—perfect for over-the-shoulder client/boss feedback sessions, and other iterative workflows. Based on the latest game engine technology, Review delivers interactive viewport previews of shadows (including self-shadowing and up to 64 lights simultaneously), the 3ds Max sun/sky system, and mental ray Architectural and design material settings. |
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| Enhanced DWG Import |
| 3ds Max delivers faster, more accurate importing of DWG files. Significantly improved memory management enables you to import large, complex scenes with multiple objects in considerably less time. Improved support for material assignment and naming, solid object import, and normals management facilitate working with software products based on the Revit platform. Plus, a new Select Similar feature identifies all objects in an imported DWG scene that contain characteristics similar to those of a selected object. This capability lets you select and edit multiple imported objects simultaneously— dramatically streamlining DWG-based workflows. |
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| Artist-Friendly Modeling Options |
| 3ds Max gives you a more streamlined, artistfriendly modeling workflow through a collection of hands-on modeling options that let you focus on the creative process. These options include selection previewing and the ability to have existing modeling hotkeys and pivots become temporary overrides. |
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| Biped Enhancements |
| This latest release provides new levels of flexibility with regard to your Biped rigs. A new Xtras tool lets you create and animate extraneous Biped features anywhere on your rig (for example, wings or additional facial bones) and save them as BIP files. These files are supported in Mixer and Motion Flow, as well as in layers where new layering functionality enables you to save BIP files as offsets from each layer to isolate character motion. As a result, you can save each layer as its own asset for export into a game. |
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| Expanded Platform Support |
| 3ds Max is the first full release of the software officially compatible with Microsoft® Windows Vista™ 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems, and the directX 10 platform. its efficient, nondestructive, visual and parametric workflow; and its highly integrated mental ray rendering capabilities. Moreover, unmatched compatibility with standard production tools, such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator® software applications, as well as such prominent computer-aided design (CAD) packages as AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture , and Revit Architecture 2008 software enables users to quickly make 3ds Max a part of their visualization workflow. |
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