Features

Produce professional-quality 3D animations, renders, and models with 3ds Max® software. An efficient and flexible toolset to help you create better 3D content in less time.

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 tools.
• Blended Box Map: Morph visible seams by simplifying the process of blending projected texture maps.
• Material, texture, and color editor: Apply material finishes, change textures, and use vibrant colors to make your designs photorealistic.
• Data Channel modifier: Automate complex modeling operations, which dynamically update as you make changes.
• Mesh and surface modeling: Create parametric and organic objects with polygon, subdivision surface, and spline-based modeling features.
• NEW | Baking to texture: Streamlined, intuitive, and fully scriptable texture baking experience.
• NEW | 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. (See video: 13 sec.)
• 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

• Improved viewport quality: As part of our OSL integration, you can display procedural maps created with OSL at 1:1 quality using Nitrous viewport.
• ENHANCED | Arnold for 3ds Max: Use Arnold GPU Renderer to view scene changes in real time, including lighting, materials, and camera.
• ENHANCED | 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

• ENHANCED | 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.
• Updated project tools: Create new projects with greater folder structure flexibility, smarter project switching, and store custom data.

Design visualisation

• 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.
• Interactive rendering: See and make changes in your scene in near-final rendering quality in the render frame window while you work.
• High-quality imagery: Advanced tools give you the built-in rendering power to create the highest quality photo-real visualisations.
• Transform technical to visual: Rich and powerful toolsets allow you to model premium architectural designs with artistic control.

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.
• Customisable pipeline integration: Get tighter pipeline integration with support for Python 3.

Autodesk 3ds Max 2021 software is supported on the following 64-bit operating systems and at a minimum, requires a system with the following 64-bit hardware:

Autodesk Licensing Explained

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Autodesk Licensing Options

• Single User: For individuals or small to medium businesses requiring a specific number of users
• Multi User: For medium to large organizations requiring many users
• Students & educators: Prepare the next generation of architects, engineers and digital artists

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