3ds Max
Software for 3D modeling, animation, and visualization
3ds Max is the professional solution for modeling, rendering, and animation in 3D. The 3D software enables the creation of stunning worlds and impressive designs.
Bring environments and landscapes to life with comprehensive modeling tools. Design detailed assets and props with intuitive texturing and shading tools. Create professional 3D renderings and iterate on them with full creative control.
Design photorealistic 3D creations
Photorealistic designs
3ds Max supports your creativity with user-friendly tools for building worlds and objects.
Increased productivity through automation
3ds Max automates repetitive and time-consuming tasks, helping you meet deadlines.
Extensive and flexible toolset
Stay in your creative flow with artist-friendly tools and a user interface designed specifically for artists.
Stunning renderings and animations for every need
Retopology tools
Automatically generate polygon mesh data as clean, quad-based topology with unrestricted precision. These tools can be used to reduce complex, high-resolution objects and enhance both generative design and traditional modeling work in 3ds Max.
Mesh and surface modeling
Polygon, subdivision-surface, and spline-based modeling functions enable the creation of parametric and organic objects.
Spline workflows
Create and animate geometry in a variety of intuitive ways using spline tools.
Smart extrude
Interactively extrude faces on 3D objects using flexible smart-extrusion operations such as cut and overlap. Adjacent faces can be automatically rebuilt and stitched together without manually repairing hidden faces or geometric data.
Modifier stack workflow
A range of unique modifiers lets you quickly and easily conceive, vary, and review your ideas.
Texture baking
Benefit from streamlined, intuitive, and fully scriptable texture-baking workflows, with support for PBR materials (physically based rendering), overrides, and OSL workflows.
Lighting
Light and enhance your scenes with photometric and standard light sources.
Interactive viewports
Reduce back-and-forth between preview viewports and view PBR materials (physically based rendering) and camera effects directly.
Physical camera
Simulate real-world camera settings such as shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, and exposure.
Open Shading Language (OSL) support
Create high-quality textures that display accurately in the viewport by using new or existing OSL maps with a supported renderer.
Material editor
Add material surfaces, modify textures, and use vibrant colors to create photorealistic designs.
Integrated Arnold renderer
Use the Arnold GPU renderer to see scene changes in real time, including lighting, materials, and camera.
ActiveShade viewport
The interactive rendering experience lets you preview your scene at near-final render quality while you work.
Scene conversion
Switch seamlessly and consistently between materials, light sources, cameras, and renderers.
glTF support
Publish assets from your 3ds Max scene as 3D content in glTF format for use in web applications, online stores, browser games, and other online offerings.
Character animation tools
Create procedural character animations and rigs with CAT (Character Animation Toolkit), Biped, and Crowd tools.
3ds Max Fluids
Generate realistic behavior for liquids such as water, oil, and lava, and simulate gravity and collision effects.
Motion paths
Preview and adjust animation paths directly in the viewport.
Particle flow effects
Create complex particle effects such as water, fire, spray, and snow.
Extensive plug-in library
Take advantage of hundreds of industry-leading third-party plug-ins from our extensive community.
Python 3
Benefit from tighter pipeline integration with support for the Python 3 programming language.
Software security
Use secure scene-script execution to protect your work from malicious scripts potentially embedded in scene files, along with the malware-scrubbing feature that detects and removes known malicious scripts from scene and startup files.
Modern UI and workspaces
Build your own custom workspaces with a more modern, responsive, high-resolution user interface.
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