Introducing the New 3ds Max Features

HERE I will describe or Introducing the New 3ds Max Features 3ds Max 2013 is a notable release that extends the comprehensive features and functionality with new, exciting capabilities, and it also updates many existing features. This is an important release with a long list of improvements and additions that will greatly impact your projects, whether you have been using 3ds Max for a number of yea

rs or are new to the world of 3D.

Each new version of 3ds Max incorporates fresh and exciting tools to enhance your capabilities and workfl ow while also increasing the performance of the program on your computer system. Utilizing these new features is a key to improving your skills and decreasing the time it takes to complete your projects. When you start the program, you are presented with the Welcome To 3ds Max dialog box, which includes links to Essential Skills Movies, which teach many of the basic skills for using 3ds Max. It also includes a link to the “What’s New” section of the Help documents, which explain the new features and links to the 3ds Max Learning Channel on YouTube. Autodesk has done a tremendous job of regularly adding new content to that channel. The Welcome To 3ds Max dialog box also provides you quick access to start a new empty scene, the Open File dialog box, and a list of the last 10 fi les you have opened.

Note that if you don’t see this dialog box, you can go to the Help menu and click Essential Skills Movies from there.

Here, in no particular order, are some of the high points of 3ds Max :

Modeless Array Dialog Box The Array dialog box is now modeless, meaning that you can

interact with the 3ds Max 2013 viewports while the dialog box is open, so that you can adjust

your views and see the preview of the array before you commit to it. This is a great ease-ofuse

update for 3ds Max.

Egg Spline A new default shape called Egg has been added to 3ds Max. This allows you

to create a closed spline that resembles an egg. The spline shape includes a built-in Outline

parameter. This feature is in both 3ds Max 2013 and 3ds Max Design 2013, and it is primarily

used for support of the Autodesk Civil View Pipe Network tools that work only with 3ds

Max Design 2013.

Hair And Fur Hair And Fur has seen some updates for 3ds Max 2013.

MassFX The MassFX dynamics tools from NVIDIA have been updated and now include

cloth simulation, an updated Ragdoll (formerly Skeleton) system, and a Multi-Object Editor

to modify selections of objects more easily. Dynamics simulations can now take advantage of

and interact with standard 3ds Max Force space warps.

gPoly gPoly is a new mesh format designed and optimized for the internal mesh format of

3ds Max, which eliminates the conversions needed from editable mesh and poly formats. The

result is faster animation when playing back high-resolution deforming objects.

Retime Tool The new Retime Tool works in the Curve Editor to help you adjust the animation

of your scenes.

Track View The Track View menus have been updated to more closely resemble the animation

editor found in AutodeskR MayaR software.

Autodesk Animation Store The Autodesk Animation Store appears at the bottom of the

Animation menu, and it opens in the Utilities tab. You can browse a selection of readymade

animation clips, purchase the animation clips directly from the site, and apply them to your

Biped-based characters.

Skin Modifi er The Skin Modifi er has been updated to sort bones automatically in ascending

or descending order and provide better content fi ltering of bone names based on userentered

criteria.

Workspaces 3ds Max 2013 users can now store multiple workspaces directly in a 3ds Max

2013 session. The workspaces are accessed from the Quick Access toolbar at the top of the 3ds

Max interface.