Top Ten Reasons To Buy

1. Out-of-the-box Productivity. The award-winning Autodesk® 3ds Max® software is the tool of choice for leaders in the game development, television, film and digital publishing industries who are looking for a comprehensive 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, and rendering solution that produces results out of the box.
2. Efficient Modeling. 3ds Max is renowned for its extensive polygon modeling toolset to get the job done fast. This already powerful  set of tools is joined by over 100 new 3D modeling tools for freeform sculpting, texture painting, and advanced polygonal modeling—all unified in an innovative user interface.
3. Flexible Rendering. Use multiple renderers, tightly integrated through a consistent rendering interface, to create any look. 3ds Max includes fast scanline rendering for efficient, production-quality software renders. 3ds Max also has the integrated mental ray renderer—a high-performance rendering engine for generating photorealistic images. 3ds Max also offers unlimited free network rendering with mental ray® technology.
4. Community Focus. Available in six languages and used worldwide by professionals and students, 3ds Max enjoys a strong, vibrant community. Whether you are Technical Director looking to outsource or hire locally, or a student preparing for your first job interview, 3ds Max is an extremely popular tool in the 3D world. Additionally, the online 3ds Max community is an invaluable resource when you’re learning the application, or just looking for some advice when you’re working on a challenging project
5. 3rd Party Plug-ins. Extend and tailor your Autodesk 3ds Max environment with innovative plug-ins from customers, partners, and developers. Autodesk Media & Entertainment joins forces with the best and brightest in the industry to spearhead continued innovation, and to ensure that 3ds Max software customers have access to the widest and most current selection of 3D software and hardware.
6. Smooth Interoperability.Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software enables Smart Data workflows that help simplify importing data from other Autodesk applications: AutoCAD®, AutoCAD® Civil 3D®,
   Autodesk® Revit® Architecture, and Autodesk® Inventor® software. File linking supports both DWG™ and FBX® file formats, which means that 3ds Max Design can more intelligently deal with upstream changes and minimize rework. Autodesk® FBX® software supports import of geometry, lights, materials, and cameras from your Revit Architecture or AutoCAD scenes, making it easier to enhance your visual BIM data. With the Autodesk® Civil Visualization Extension, available only to 3ds Max Design Subscription customers*, civil engineers can more easily create accurate visualizations with AutoCAD Civil 3D engineering software – even if they have limited 3D experience. For Digital Prototyping workflows, native data from Inventor or from SAT files can now be imported as surfaces or solids into 3ds Max Design – helping optimize your visualization workflows.
7. Advanced Particles. 3ds Max allows you to control fully integrated particle effects by forces based on real-world physics or by deformers through an extensible integrated particle system. Whether you are creating fire, water, smoke, crowds or leaves on trees, Particle Flow provides a sophisticated event-driven particle toolset that lets you design the behavior of a particle based on a series of defined events.
8. UV Workflows.  3ds Max offers a wide range of operations for creative texture and planar mapping, including tiling, mirroring, decals, angle, rotate, blur, spline mapping, UV stretching, and relaxation; Remove Distortion; Preserve UV; and UV template image export.  Other UV workflow features include Pelt mapping, which defines custom seams and enables users to unfold UVs according to those seams; copy/paste materials, maps and colors; and access to quick mapping types (box, cylindrical, spherical). Extensive UVW mapping tools include direct manipulation of texture mapping coordinates.
9. MAXScript Extensibility. MAXScript is a built-in scripting language for Autodesk 3ds Max. It provides you with the ability to script all aspects of 3ds Max, such as modeling, animation, materials, rendering, and so on. You can build custom import/export tools using the built-in file I/O, write procedural controllers that can access the entire state of the scene, or build batch-processing tools, such as batch-rendering scripts. The possibilities are endless!
10. Ease of Learning. From the first class training and documentation that comes with 3ds Max, to the breadth of 3rd party books, DVDs, and tutorials, there are countless resources to suite a variety of learning styles. In addition, the large online community of professionals and enthusiasts alike are extremely helpful when you’re learning 3ds Max.
    

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