3ds Max over the past 6 years
18
Project updates
174
Total enhancements
55
Customer Ideas
3ds Max enhancement timeline
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2024 featured enhancements for 3ds Max
- Boolean Modifier
- Array Modifier
- Robust Modeling Tools
- Color Management
- Material Switcher
- Interactive Rendering Tools
- Enhanced Animation Capabilities
- Artist-friendly Updates
- Enhancements to the Copy and Paste Animation Data Commands
- Array Modifier Improvements
- Spline Improvements
- VertexPaint Enhancements
- FFD Performance Improvements
- MaxtoA 5.6.2.0
2023 | 2023.1 | 2023.2 | 2023.3
featured enhancements for 3ds Max
- gITF support
- Retopology Tools 1.2
- Place Working Pivot
- Create Point from Working Pivot
- Create Grid from Working Pivot
- Align Working Pivot
- Selection Pivot
- New Properties added to Physical Material
- Autobackup toolbar
- Autobackup improvements
- Faster Rendering Experience with Arnold
- Occlude Selection Improvements
- Smart Extrude
- Unwrap UVW Keyboard Shortcuts
2022 | 2022.1 | 2022.2 | 2022.3
featured enhancements for 3ds Max
- Security
- Smart Extrude
- Slice Modifier
- Extrude Modifier
- Symmetry Modifier
- AutoSmooth
- Relax Modifier
- Rendering
- Bake to Texture
- Deformation Modifier
- Enhanced Smooth Modifier
- Vertex Colors in FBX Imports
- Multi-Threading of Noise Maps
- Startup Failure Recovery
2021 | 2021.1 | 2021.2 | 2021.3
featured enhancements for 3ds Max
- Bake to Texture
- Installer
- Scripting with Python 3
- Arnold as the Default Renderer
- Improved Viewport Quality & Settings
- OSL Shaders
- File I/O
- Chamfer improvements
- Weighted Normals Modifier
- SketchUp Import
- Substance Update
- ProSound Improved audio support
- FBX Improvements
- 3rd Party Developer Tools
2020 | 2020.1 | 2020.2 | 2020.3
featured enhancements for 3ds Max
- Create Animation Preview improvements
- Chamfer modifier presets and save default settings
- 14 new OSL shaders
- Revit import new “Combine By” types
- MAXtoA PFlow instance node
- Copy+Pasted modifiers maintain their custom names
- Validity intervals (animation is only calculated if there’s a change in object location)
- Autobackup is more responsive to ESC request
- Civil View textures update to render with Arnold
- Change color of MAXScript listener window
- 270+ 3rd party plugins launching around 3ds Max 2020
- Detachable viewports
2019 | 2019.1 | 2019.2 | 2019.3 featured enhancements for 3ds Max
- OSL (Open Shading Language) support with 100 OSL shaders included
- Advanced Wood shader
- Shape Booleans
- VR scene editing with 3ds Max Interactive
- 3ds Max Project tool updates
- Shared Views
- Civil View updates to use
- Physical Material and Sun/Sky Positioner
- Alembic Inspector
- OSL performance improvements
- Arnold MAXtoA Toon shading, noise removal improvements
- Switch quickly between projects with the new Project Toolbar
- Archiving and scene compression now supports large datasets greater than 2GB
- Vault users can check large files in/out and auto-login
- Export only animation with FBX
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