Experience the power of 3ds Max’s Modifier Stack, a non-destructive workflow that lets you build, refine, and iterate freely.

Shape, transform, and refine your models with 3ds Max’s extensive suite of modifiers. This robust toolset gives you the control and flexibility to explore limitless creative and technical possibilities.

Bring complex characters and hard-surface designs to life with advanced polygon modeling tools. Work interactively to craft detailed, production-ready assets with precision and creative freedom.

Reconstruct mesh data with clean, quad-based topology using ReForm. Get accurate, production-ready retopology that simplifies downstream workflows and preserves the essence of your original model.

Create and modify intricate curves and shapes with powerful spline tools. Enjoy precision, flexibility, and control for everything from design visualization to complex modeling tasks.

Achieve clean, accurate textures with UVW tools. Unwrap, edit, and map your models efficiently to deliver flawless texture alignment and high-quality visual results.

Simplify rigging and animate characters with built-in Biped setups.

Create procedural character animations and rigs with Character Animation Toolkit (CAT).

Preview and adjust animation paths directly in the viewport.

Handle all your animation tasks with easy-to-use, robust animation controllers.

Animate realistic behaviors and replicate gravity and collision effects for liquids like water, oil, and lava.

Produce sophisticated particle effects such as water, fire, spray, and snow.

Create realistic materials using a powerful, node-based editor fully compliant with OpenPBR.

Now the default material in 3ds Max, OpenPBR ensures consistent representation of materials across different 3D software.

Access a simple control method to manage the display of multiple material variants.

Generate high-quality textures that display accurately in the viewport with Open Shading Language (OSL) maps with any supported renderer.

Experience streamlined, intuitive, and fully scriptable texture baking with support for PBR (physically based rendering) materials, overrides, and OSL workflows.

Illuminate and enhance your scenes using photometric lights and standard lights.

Use the Arnold GPU renderer to view scene changes in real time, including lighting, materials, and camera.

Ensure the accurate reproduction of colors across different devices, brightnesses, and viewing conditions with Color Management and OCIO support.

Reduce design iteration with render-quality viewport previews, displaying PBR materials and camera effects directly.

Simulate real-life camera settings such as shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, and exposure.

Easily change materials, lights, cameras, and renderers from one to another.

Load and edit massive data sets in a matter of seconds using OpenUSD in 3ds Max.

Import OpenUSD data as native 3ds Max data and export native 3ds Max data as OpenUSD data.

See quick previews of OpenUSD scene structure using the Hierarchy View window.

Work with OpenUSD data directly in common Maya editors, such as the Outliner, Attribute Editor, and Channel Box.

See OpenUSD natively alongside 3ds Max data in the viewport.

The 3ds Max OpenUSD plugin is available as an open-source project for studios to customize as needed.

Create your own custom workspaces with a modern, responsive, high-DPI-ready user interface.

Use Safe Scene Script Execution to protect your work from malicious scripts hidden in scene files. Malware Removal detects and removes known threats from both scene files and start-up scripts.

Get tighter pipeline integration and scripting with support for Python 3.

Extend 3ds Max easily with third-party tools like tyFlow, thinkingParticles, or ForestPack.

Publish assets from your 3ds Max scene to glTF for use in web applications, online stores, browser games, and other online outlets.

Maximize compatibility with other software with VFX Reference Platform compliance.