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.
Taking speed and security one step further
Focused on workflow efficiency, easy-to-use texturing and rendering tools, and offering a safe and secure workspace environment, 3ds Max now has new rendering capabilities added to Arnold, a new Bake to Texture functionality, and enhanced features to popular modeling tools.
You will also find speed improvements throughout your process from installation to rendering and see that 3ds Max Python 3 is now set as the default Python interpreter.
Modeling and texturing
Coiled rope with carabiners in front of other bunches of rope
Spline workflows
Create and animate geometry in several intuitive ways with enhanced spline tools.
Detailed rendering of modern living space featuring a green couch, a marble coffee table, and a stone floor with a charcoal area rug
Open shading language support
Create or use pre-existing procedural OSL maps with any supported renderer.
3ds Max Chamfer render of oval coffee table, an hourglass-shaped side table, and an armchair with plush pillow-like seat and back
Chamfer modifier
Create best-in-class procedural edge modeling details with simple and precise tools.
Automated retopology and mesh repair
Automatically optimize the geometry of high-resolution models to create a clean, quad-based mesh geometry.
Material, texture, and color editor
Apply material finishes, change textures, and use vibrant colors to make your designs photorealistic.
Smart Extrude
Interactively extrude faces of 3D objects. Rebuild and stitch together adjacent faces automatically.
Mesh and surface modeling
Create parametric and organic objects with polygon, subdivision surface, and spline-based modeling features.
NEW | Baking to texture
Streamlined, intuitive, and fully scriptable texture baking experience.
NEW | Weighted normals modifier
Built-in weighted normal calculator that can be directly applied to 3D models allowing you to create precise designs.
Animation and effects
Video: silent animation of empty indoor space where a door suddenly opens to let out an avalanche of many-colored balls
3ds Max Fluids
Create realistic liquid behaviors such as water, oil, lava as well as replicate gravity and collision effects. (video: 30 sec.)
Female action figure holding a large bow-like weapon in her right hand
Character animation and rigging tools
Create procedural animation and character rigging with CAT, biped, and crowd animation tools.
Cartoonish female with blue hair carrying a spear
General animation tools
Use keyframe and procedural animation tools and also view and edit animation trajectories directly in the viewport.
Motion Paths
Preview and adjust animation paths directly in the viewport.
Particle Flow effects
Create sophisticated particle effects such as water, fire, spray, and snow.
New plugins
Access hundreds of industry leading 3rd-party plugins from our extensive community.
Rendering
3D of a NASA spacecraft rendered in 3ds Max
Brilliant Viewport
Reduce design interactions with render quality viewport previews, displaying PBR materials and camera effects directly.
ENHANCED
Minimalist bedroom with marble floor, a sofa bed, large-screen TV, and a window wall facing a pink-flowered bush
Arnold for 3ds Max
Use Arnold GPU Renderer to view scene changes in real time, including lighting, materials, and camera.
ENHANCED
Mechanical part modeled in 3ds Max Activeshade viewport
Activeshade viewport
An interactive rendering experience that allows you to see your scene in a near-final rendering quality as you’re working.
Physical Camera
Simulate real-life camera settings such as shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, exposure, and more.
3ds Max Batch
Leverage the power of 3ds Max for automation by using 3ds Max as a true command-line tool.
Scene Converter
Seamlessly and consistently change materials, lights, cameras, renderers from one to another.
Workflow and pipeline
ENHANCED | 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.
Learn more CivilView workflow Automatically populate parametrically generated details such as animated vehicles to scale with your environment.
Autodesk Viewer workflow
Share models and review feedback online with the Autodesk Viewer directly from the 3ds Max interface.
Software security
Use Safe Scene Loading to protect your work from potentially malicious scripts that could be part of scene files.
Design visualization
Embellishments
Bring to life fine-tuned touches such as materials, lighting, and textures for photorealistic imagery.
Import capabilities
Import data from anywhere, using CAD and BIM data directly or to enhance the details of your 3D design.
Physically based lighting
Simulate artificial lighting sources to accurately portray how light and shadows will interact with your designs.
Interactive rendering
See and make changes in your scene in near-final rendering quality in the render frame window while you work.
High-quality imagery
Advanced tools give you the built-in rendering power to create the highest quality photo-real visualizations.
Transform technical to visual
Rich and powerful toolsets allow you to model premium architectural designs with artistic control.
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 right in the viewport.
Dynamic visual content
Add shading and lighting to game assets with powerful texture baking tools.
Customizable pipeline integration
Get tighter pipeline integration with support for Python 3.
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