What's New in 3ds Max^® Design 2012

New features in 3ds Max Design 2012 include:

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  Nitrous Accelerated Graphics Core: Enjoy dramatic improvements in performance and visual quality in the viewport.
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  Autodesk Alias Products Interoperability: Enjoy smoother interoperability with Autodesk^® Alias^® Design software for industrial design, with the ability to import .WIRE files natively into 3ds Max Design.
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  Substance Procedural Textures: Achieve a vast range of look variations with 80 new Substance procedural textures.
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  iray Renderer: Get more predictable, photo-real results without worrying about rendering settings.
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• Stylistic Rendering: Create a variety of non-photorealistic (NPR) effects that simulate artistic styles created by hand, with the new ability to render stylized images in the viewport and with the Quicksilver renderer.
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  Sculpting and Painting Enhancements: Enjoy greater control over brushstrokes and their effects, with new Conform, Transform, and Constrain-to-Spline brushes.
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• mRigids Rigid-Body Dynamics: Leverage the NVIDIA^® PhysX^® engine to create dynamic rigid-body simulations directly in the viewport.
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  Enhanced UVW Unwrapping: Create better UVW maps in less time, with a new mapping method.
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• ProOptimizer Enhancements: Optimize models faster, more efficiently, and with better results, using the enhanced ProOptimizer feature.
• Improved Start-Up Time and Memory Footprint: Targeted performance improvements developed as part of the XBR initiative enable tools to be more intelligently loaded as required.
• Autodesk Material Library Enhancements: Enjoy greater consistency for materials imported from AutoCAD® software, improved viewport feedback, and a more intuitive user interface (UI) experience.
• UI Enhancements: An enhanced UI adjusts to dark UI color schemes, performs faster, and offers a more consistent contextual UI location and access to help.
• Caddy Improvements: The Caddy in-canvas UI offers better usability, with a more predictable contextual UI location, quicker interaction, and default behavior which does not occlude the artist’s selection.

Learn more at www.autodesk.com/3dsmaxdesign.