How to Build Your Own Autodesk 3ds Max

Ensure accurate reproduction of colors and compatibility across a variety of applications with OCIO support

Render complex scenes and designs with Arnold for 3ds Max, including GPU rendering to view scene changes in real time

Reduce design iterations with render-quality viewport previews of PBR materials and camera effects

Illuminate and enhance scenes using photometric lights and standard lights

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

Access hundreds of industry-leading third-party plug-ins from the extensive community

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

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

Easily share assets with support for file formats like glTF, USD, FBX, CAD formats, and more

Get tighter pipeline integration with support for Python 3

Create parametric and organic objects with polygon, subdivision surface, and spline-based modeling features

Explore design ideas using a range of robust modifiers that can non-destructively enhance creations

Automatically reconstruct polygonal mesh data as clean, quad-based topology with amazing accuracy

Interactively extrude faces on 3D objects using flexible extrude operations like cut-through and overlap, with automatic face rebuilding and stitching

Create curved or angular 3D shapes using several intuitive spline tools

Handle all animation asks with easy-to-use, modernized animation controllers

Create procedural character animations and rigs with CAT (character animation toolkit), biped, and crowd tools

Preview and adjust animation paths directly in the viewport

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

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

Do light linkings in USD, giving more control for lighting a scene

USD Lights are now visible in the viewport and can be selected and manipulated as other prims

The 3ds Max USD plug-in is available as an open source project for customization

Import USD data as native 3ds Max data and export native 3ds Max data as USD data

Edit layer hierarchy, target layers for editing, lock layers, mute and more with the USD Layer Editor

Streamlined, intuitive, and fully scriptable texture baking with support for PBR materials, overrides, and OSL workflows

Make realistic objects with physically based rendering, Open Shading Language, and bake to texture

Add material finishes, change textures, and use vibrant colors to create photorealistic designs

Manage the display of multiple material variants in a few simple clicks

Generate high-quality textures using new or pre-existing OSL maps with any supported renderer, displaying accurately in the viewport