Whether you are looking to create 3D assets for games, broadcast graphics for television productions, or visual effects for film, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software delivers out-of-the-box access to a comprehensive set of industry-standard 3D tools—enabling you to get up to speed quickly and push the boundaries of creativity and efficiency.
This full-featured 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solution is used to produce top-selling games and award-winning film and video content. It’s a tool of choice for quickly generating realistic characters, seamless CG effects, jaw-dropping games, and top-quality film and television content. Enhanced toolsets enable you to create your 3D environment the way you want, manage complex scenes, and take advantage of improved software interoperability and pipeline-integration support.
Experience extreme creativity with the new 3ds Max Graphite modeling tools. This innovative toolset includes at least one hundred new tools for free-form sculpting and advanced polygonal modeling. Bring your vision to life with realistic water, fire, smoke, and other particle effects with PFlowAdvanced, a comprehensive particle design system. Take the guesswork out of your final renders with Review 3 technology—a major leap forward in viewport display that offers support for ambient occlusion, High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI)-based lighting, and mental mill® shaders.
Easily manage your scenes using powerful new referencing workflows. By treating multiple objects and scenes as a single container object, you can organize even the most complex scenes quickly and efficiently. Collaborative workflows are also supported through containers, enabling you to set rules to control access to a container’s contents. 3ds Max Design 2010 also delivers new object- and scene-management features, including Material Explorer, ProOptimizer polygon optimization, xView mesh analysis, and expanded multicore processor support.
Develop, test, and maintain powerful mental mill hardware shaders from inside 3ds Max. The first 3D program to integrate mental images’ mental mill technology, 3ds Max Design 2010 software gives you real-time visual feedback as you work, making it possible to create sophisticated, hardware-agnostic shaders—no programming skills required. In addition to mental mill integration, the software also delivers improved interoperability with Autodesk Mudbox™ software and other Autodesk products, along with enhanced support for C# and .NET.
- Graphite modeling and texturing system introducing more than 100 additional creative tools
- Render-like effects in the viewport display offer near photo-real quality for faster decision making
- Artists can create robust referencing workflows to help organize complex scenes as a single Container object
- Multithreaded xView mesh analyzer technology for in-viewport reporting on various types of mesh
- Enhanced OBJ support and ProOptimizer technology offers improved interoperability with Autodesk Mudbox software
Whether you’re an architect, designer, civil engineer, or visualization specialist, Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 provides a powerful, integrated toolset that helps users more rapidly iterate on design concepts and accurately analyze daylight effects. This allows for the creation of higher-impact visuals as users explore, validate, and communicate the story behind the design. A summary of new features in Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 can be found on our “What’s New in Autodesk 2011” webpage. For a complete listing of new features, please check out the Autodesk 3ds Max Design technical documentation.