3ds Max

Overview

What is 3ds Max?

3ds Max® professional 3D modeling, rendering, and animation software enables you to create expansive worlds and premium designs.

• Breathe life into environments and landscapes with robust modeling tools.
• Create finely detailed designs and props with intuitive texturing and shading tools.
• Iterate and produce professional-grade renders with full artistic control.

Key Features

Retopology tools

Automatically optimize the geometry of high-resolution models to create a clean, quad-based mesh geometry.

Smart Extrude

Extrude faces on 3D objects in an intuitive and flexible way. Rebuild and stitch together adjacent faces automatically.

Open Shading Language (OSL) support

Create or use pre-existing procedural OSL maps with any supported renderer.

Baking to texture

Experience streamlined, intuitive, and fully scriptable texture baking.

Integrated Arnold renderer

Arnold for 3ds Max (MAXtoA) supports interactive rendering directly from the interface.

Interactive viewports

Reduce design iteration with render-quality viewport previews, displaying PBR (physically based rendering) materials and camera effects directly.

Software security

Use Safe Scene Loading to protect your work from potentially malicious scripts that could be part of scene files.

System Requirements

Autodesk 3ds Max 2023 software is supported on the following 64-bit operating systems and at a minimum, requires a system with the following 64-bit hardware: