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• Create massive worlds in games
• Visualize high-quality architectural renderings
• Model finely detailed interiors and objects
• Bring characters and features to life with animation and VFX

Render high-quality scenes

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

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

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
• 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

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

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

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

Trial Download

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HW Specs

Recommended System Specification

Manufacturer's system requirements are generally the bare minimum that you need to run the software and insufficient for effective and productive operation of the product. 

Our suggested "real world" mid-range desktop system key specifications to properly run 3ds Max are as follows:

• CPU: Intel Core i5
• Memory: 16GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA QUADRO P620
• Hard Drive: 500GB NVMe
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

Novedge, in partnership with High Speed Computing, can also provide the perfect hardware for your design needs, pre-installed with your software, at a very competitive price. Contact us to discuss custom-configured workstations and laptops.

Suggested Workstation

Silver 3D Workstation CPU: Intel Core i7 Memory: 16GB Hard Drive: 500GB NVMe Graphics Card: NVIDIA QUADRO P1000