3ds Max is a full-featured 3D graphics application developed by
Autodesk Media and Entertainment. It runs on the
Win32 and
Win64 platforms. As of August
2006, 3ds Max is in its ninth version generation.
The original 3D Studio product was created for the DOS platform by the Yost Group and published by Autodesk. Autodesk purchased the product at its second release mark and internalized development entirely over the next two releases. After 3D Studio Release 4, the product was ported to the Windows NT platform, and originally named "3D Studio MAX." This version was also originally created by the Yost Group. It was released by Kinetix, which was at that time Autodesk's division of media and entertainment. Later, the product name was changed to "3ds max" (all lower case) to better comply with the naming conventions of
Discreet, a Montreal-based software company which Autodesk had purchased. At release 8, the product was again branded with the
Autodesk logo, and the name was again changed to "3ds Max" (upper and lower case).
3ds Max is one of the most widely-used
off the shelf 3D animation programs by content creation professionals. It has strong modeling capabilities, a flexible
plugin architecture and a long heritage on the
Microsoft Windows platform. It is mostly used by
video game developers, TV commercial studios and architectural visualisation studios. It is also used for movie effects and movie previsualisation.
In addition to its modeling and animation tools, the latest version of 3ds Max also features advanced
shaders (such as
ambient occlusion and
subsurface scattering),
dynamic simulation,
particle systems,
radiosity,
normal map creation and rendering,
global illumination, an intuitive and fully-customizable
user interface, its own
scripting language and much more. There is also a plethora of specialized renderer plugins that can be bought separately, such as
V-Ray,
Brazil r/s ,
Maxwell,
FryRender and
finalRender.
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