Pipeline Integration with 3ds Max

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Let's finish up by talking a little bit about how well three

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Ds max integrates with other applications that may be in your pipeline.

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So in terms of other DC C applications,

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you're going to be able to move assets between those pretty easily.

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So if we come up to file,

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you can see we have import and export.

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If we go into import, for instance,

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come down to file types,

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you can get a kind of an idea of how many

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file types you're able to bring into three Ds max.

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So you've got sketch up files,

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rev files,

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a lot of file formats relating to kind of architectural viz and things like that.

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If you're working in media,

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you can also bring things in with O B J that's very universal

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or F B X also very universal across DC C applications. We can also bring in Olympic

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caches

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or illustrator files as well.

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So we have the opportunity to import and

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export lots of different file formats between applications.

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In addition,

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we can go up to file,

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we can come down to send two and this will

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provide a quicker way to send geometry from three Ds ma

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to other applications like Maya motion builder and Mud Box.

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Now, I do believe that they have to be the same

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uh version and we're in 2021 right now. So that's why these are grayed out.

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But this will let you send an object as a new scene or update it.

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If it's already, you already have a connection to that application

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or you can add it,

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we can also get our objects into a game engine like unity. So we could just go to export

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and export our model as an F B X and place it manually. That will certainly work.

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We also, if we come in here,

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we have a game exporter which will give you a lot more options.

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If you're exporting

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to something like unity, you can choose uh smoothing groups,

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you can triangulate your mesh and,

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and deal with the tangents and bin normals.

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You can,

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you know a lot of the F B X options

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are in here including cameras and animation at lights,

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embedding media.

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You also can look at your animation clips if you have some of those and

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how to export those.

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So this will kind of consolidate everything and give you some more options.

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So here uh I've gone in and just selected my path as a unity project in the F B X folder

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and just gave it a name

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and we can go ahead and export that.

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And then if we jump into unity

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you'll be able to import your model very quickly from your F B X folder

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and then you can RELIK your textures and get

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it all set up inside of unity very quickly.

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Again, if you want to just export as an F B,

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you can do that as well. In addition, ZB brush has a goy

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functionality that will allow you

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to move objects back and forth between ZB brush and three Ds

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max And that you can install from your ZB brush installation.

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Also, there's a plug in that you can use Houdini with three Ds Mac.

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So you can create digital assets in Houdini,

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export those and bring them into three Ds Macs using Houdini engine.

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So whether you're working in media and entertainment

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or architectural visualization or maybe product design,

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three Ds Max is going to offer a lot of tools

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and workflows that will make your life a lot easier.