Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio MAX, is a modeling, animation and rendering package developed by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. It has modeling capabilities, a flexible plugin architecture and can be used on the Microsoft Windows platform. It's frequently used by video game developers, TV commercial studios and architectural visualization studios. It is also used for movie effects and movie pre-visualization.

Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2012 software delivers powerful new rendering toolsets,

enhanced
iterative workflows, and an accelerated graphics core that together help increase overall productivity.
With

this release, Autodesk helps designers to more effective
influence key stakeholders and accelerate the path to new

business.
Featuring the physically accurate “point
resolution-independent procedural textures, and
2012 helps

designers present their creative vision more effectively. Moreover, with the Nitrous render
quality accelerated viewports,

designers can rapidly iterate on their ideas to achieve more compellin
end results. Furthermore, with new
software

products and automated workflows with AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software, CAD data is more
easily aggregated into powerful

storytelling visualizations.
Top Features and Benefits

Nitrous Accelerated Graphics Core
A top priority of the

Excalibur (XBR) initiative to revitalize 3ds Max Design is to introduce a new
viewport system engineered to provide

dramatic improvements in performance and visual quality.
Nitrous leverages accelerated GPUs and multi
and to handle

larger data sets with limited impact on interactivity. Advanced scene management
techniques, together with multithreaded

viewport scene travel ,smoother, more responsive workflow. Moreover, Nitrous provides a render
that supports unlimited

lights, soft shadows, screen
higher-quality transparency. It also enables progressive refinement of image quality without

blocking
changes to the scene, helping designers make better creative and aesthetic decisions in the context of
their

final output.
Autodesk Alias Products Interoperability
Enjoy smoother interoperability with Autodesk® Alias® Design

software for industrial design, with the
new ability to import .WIRE files natively into 3ds Max Design as Bodies objects,

preserving object
names, hierarchies, layers, and material names. Designers can
results inside 3ds Max Design to help

fine
effectively communicate design intent in order to
point-and-shoot” iray® renderer from mental images,

versatile,
new stylized rendering capabilities, 3ds Max Design
interoperability with the Autodesk® Alias® industrial

design