Features

Modeling and texturing

• Spline workflows – Create and animate geometry in several intuitive ways with enhanced spline tools.
• Open shading language support – Create or use pre-existing procedural OSL maps with any supported renderer.
• Chamfer modifier – Create best-in-class procedural edge modeling details with simple and precise.
• Automated retopology and mesh repair – Automatically optimize the geometry of high-resolution models to create a clean, quad-based mesh geometry.
• Material, texture, and color editor – Apply material finishes, change textures, and use vibrant colors to make your designs photorealistic.
• Smart Extrude – Interactively extrude faces of 3D objects. Rebuild and stitch together adjacent faces automatically.
• Mesh and surface modeling – Create parametric and organic objects with polygon, subdivision surface, and spline-based modeling features.
• Baking to texture – Streamlined, intuitive, and fully scriptable texture baking experience.
• Weighted normals modifier – Built-in weighted normal calculator that can be directly applied to 3D models allowing you to create precise designs.

Animation and effects

• 3ds Max Fluids – Create realistic liquid behaviors such as water, oil, lava as well as replicate gravity and collisions effects.
• Character animation and rigging tools – Create procedural animation and character rigging with CAT, biped, and crowd animation tools.
• General animation tools – Use keyframe and procedural animation tools and also view and edit animation trajectories directly in the viewport.
• Motion Paths – Preview and adjust animation paths directly in the viewport.
• Particle Flow effects – Create sophisticated particle effects such as water, fire, spray, and snow.
• New plugins – Access hundreds of industry leading 3rd-party plugins from our extensive community.

Rendering

• Brilliant Viewport – Reduce design interactions with render quality viewport previews, displaying PBR materials and camera effects directly.
• Arnold for 3ds Max – Use Arnold GPU Renderer to view scene changes in real time, including lighting, materials, and camera.
• Activeshade viewport – An interactive rendering experience that allows you to see your scene in a near-final rendering quality as you’re working.
• Physical Camera – Simulate real-life camera settings such as shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, exposure, and more.
• 3ds Max Batch – Leverage the power of 3ds Max for automation by using 3ds Max as a true command-line tool.
• Scene Converter – Seamlessly and consistently change materials, lights, cameras, renderers from one to another.

Workflow and pipeline

• Improved pipeline tools integration – Smooth, high-quality experience with added flexibility of tear-off viewports.
• Alembic support – Alembic Version 1.7 now supports instances, allowing files to be drastically smaller while maintaining their original complexity.
• Modern UI and workspaces – Create your own custom workspaces with a more modern, responsive, high-DPI-ready user interface.
• CivilView workflow – Automatically populate parametrically generated details such as animated vehicles to scale with your environment.
• Autodesk Viewer workflow – Share models and review feedback online with the Autodesk Viewer directly from the 3ds Max interface.
• Software security – Use Safe Scene Loading to protect your work from potentially malicious scripts that could be part of scene files.

Design visualization

• Embellishments – Bring to life fine-tuned touches such as materials, lighting, and textures for photorealistic imagery.
• Import capabilities – Import your CAD and BIM files and use it to create a general structure and enhance the details of your 3D design.
• Physically based lighting – Simulate artificial lighting sources to accurately portray how light and shadows will interact with your designs.

Games and entertainment

• Powerful scene modeling – Easily model a place, person, or element with fast spline and poly modeling workflows.
• Stunning characters – Create procedural animation and character rigging with CAT and biped tools.
• Physically based rendering – Quickly iterate and see near-final quality renders of your game assets right in the viewport.
• Dynamic visual content – Add shading and lighting to game assets with powerful texture baking tools.
• Customizable pipeline integration – Get tighter pipeline integration with support for Python 3.

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 (SP1), Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 Professional operating system
• CPU: 64-bit Intel® or AMD® multi-core processor with SSE4.2 instruction set
• Graphics Hardware: Refer to 3ds Max Certified Hardware for a detailed list of recommended systems and graphics cards
• RAM: 4 GB of RAM minimum (8 GB or more recommended)
• Disk Space: 6 GB of free disk space for install
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