3Ds Max 2020

3ds Max modeling, rendering, and animation software

Produce professional-quality 3D animations, renders, and models with 3ds Max® software. An efficient and flexible toolset to help you create better 3D content in less time.

3D modeling, texturing, and effects

• Spline workflows

Create and animate geometry in several intuitive ways with new and enhanced spline tools.

• Open Shading Language support

Create OSL maps in the material editor from simple math nodes to procedural textures.

• Blended Box Map

Morph visible seams by simplifying the process of blending projected texture maps.

• Chamfer Modifier

Create best-in-class procedural modeling details that handles some of the most difficult tasks with ease.

• Hair and Fur modifier

Manipulate hair and fur directly in viewports with selection and styling tools, such as tools for cutting and brushing.

• Data Channel Modifier

Leverage vertex, edge, and face information to procedurally modify your models.

• Shape Boolean

Create parametric Boolean operations on two or more splines with the familiar UI from 3D Booleans.

• Mesh and surface modeling

Efficiently create parametric and organic objects with polygon, subdivision surface, and spline-based modeling features.

3D animation and dynamics

• 3ds Max Fluids

Create realistic liquid behaviors directly in 3ds Max. (video: 12 sec.)

• Motion Paths

Manipulate animations directly in the viewport and get direct feedback when making adjustments in your scene.

• 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. View and edit animation trajectories directly in the viewport.

• Max Creation Graph controllers

Author animation controllers, using a new generation of animation tools that you can create, modify, package, and share.

• Particle Flow effects

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

• Simple simulation data import

Animate simulation data in CFD, CSV, or OpenVDB formats.

• Geodesic Voxel and Heatmap skinning

Quickly and easily generate better skin weighting.

3D 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

The MAXtoA plug-in is integrated into 3ds Max, giving you access to Arnold’s latest features.

• Physical Camera

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

• Activeshade Viewport

Directly manipulate your scene content in your final ActiveShade render.

• Autodesk Raytracer Renderer (ART)

Create accurate images of architectural scenes.

• Scene layout in VR

Edit scenes directly from within VR in 3ds Max Interactive, and see updates pushed back to 3ds Max in real time.

UI, workflow, and pipeline

• 3ds Max Batch

Leverage the power of 3ds Max for automation by using 3ds Max as a true command-line tool.

• Improved pipeline tools integration

Gain tighter integration with several pipeline tools with an extended and improved Python/.NET toolset.

• Alembic support

The included Alembic inport inspector allows to you check a file before importing. With support for Alembic 1.7 instancing.

• Modern UI and workspaces

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

• Scene Converter

Seamlessly move from one renderer to another.

• CivilView workflow update

Vehicles created in CivilView now support the 3ds Max physical material, reducing conversion and simplifying rendering.

• Autodesk Viewer workflow

Share models and review feedback online with the Autodesk Viewer directly from the 3ds Max interface.

• Updated project tools

Create new projects with greater folder structure flexibility, smarter project switching, and store custom data.