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.
Create and animate geometry in several intuitive ways with enhanced spline tools.
Create or use pre-existing procedural OSL maps with any supported renderer.
Create best-in-class procedural edge modeling details with simple and precise tools.
Automatically optimize the geometry of high-resolution models to create a clean, quad-based mesh geometry.
Apply material finishes, change textures, and use vibrant colors to make your designs photorealistic.
Interactively extrude faces of 3D objects. Rebuild and stitch together adjacent faces automatically.
Create parametric and organic objects with polygon, subdivision surface, and spline-based modeling features.
Streamlined, intuitive, and fully scriptable texture baking experience.
Built-in weighted normal calculator that can be directly applied to 3D models allowing you to create precise designs.
Create realistic liquid behaviors such as water, oil, lava as well as replicate gravity and collision effects. (video: 30 sec.)
Create procedural animation and character rigging with CAT, biped, and crowd animation tools.
Use keyframe and procedural animation tools and also view and edit animation trajectories directly in the viewport.
Create sophisticated particle effects such as water, fire, spray, and snow.
Access hundreds of industry leading 3rd-party plugins from our extensive community.
Reduce design interactions with render quality viewport previews, displaying PBR materials and camera effects directly.
Use Arnold GPU Renderer to view scene changes in real time, including lighting, materials, and camera.
An interactive rendering experience that allows you to see your scene in a near-final rendering quality as you’re working.
Simulate real-life camera settings such as shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, exposure, and more.
Leverage the power of 3ds Max for automation by using 3ds Max as a true command-line tool.
Seamlessly and consistently change materials, lights, cameras, renderers from one to another.
Smooth, high-quality experience with added flexibility of tear-off viewports.
Alembic Version 1.7 now supports instances, allowing files to be drastically smaller while maintaining their original complexity.
Create your own custom workspaces with a more modern, responsive, high-DPI-ready user interface.
Automatically populate parametrically generated details such as animated vehicles to scale with your environment.
Share models and review feedback online with the Autodesk Viewer directly from the 3ds Max interface.
Use Safe Scene Loading to protect your work from potentially malicious scripts that could be part of scene files.
Bring to life fine-tuned touches such as materials, lighting, and textures for photorealistic imagery.
Import data from anywhere, using CAD and BIM data directly or to enhance the details of your 3D design.
Simulate artificial lighting sources to accurately portray how light and shadows will interact with your designs.
See and make changes in your scene in near-final rendering quality in the render frame window while you work.
Advanced tools give you the built-in rendering power to create the highest quality photo-real visualizations.
Rich and powerful toolsets allow you to model premium architectural designs with artistic control.
Easily model a place, person, or element with fast spline and poly modeling workflows.
Create procedural animation and character rigging with CAT and biped tools.
Quickly iterate and see near-final quality renders of your game assets right in the viewport.
Add shading and lighting to game assets with powerful texture baking tools.
Get tighter pipeline integration with support for Python 3.
