This is what I believe has been the vast shortcoming of max in the recent decade and not FX tools which are readily available as production ready and on perpetual licenses for relatively affordable price tags for any serious user. proper animation layering and better curve editing tools.Īn upgrade on cloth tools, Max has excellent cloth tool yet it still runs on a single CPU thread, It’s collision system is still as old as time.Įven with all the plugins combined and invested in, you will still come in shorthanded on some of these basics. A new reaction manager of sort is desperately needed. Talk about massive mismanagement and bad choice making there.Ĭharacter rigging tools are still behind Maya, take for instance lack of proper spline-Ik to start with the basics. It is mostly preferred by the professionals who are associated with the development of video games or create animations for cinema and movies. They bought the guy off and made him work on a real time engine little care for. Autodesk 3ds Max is an advanced tool that is suitable for modeling, animation and rendering of objects in different scenarios. Skin FX showed much promise back in the day. Max has very solid plugins when it comes to VFX and rendering, Vray, Fume, Phoenix Krakatoa etc.īut when it comes to character tools, these are such things that are important to be in the core of a 3d software, while we do get Bones pro to replace the unfortunate skin modifier, both come with their shortcomings still and we still don’t get muscle system in max. Unfortunately, if you want to use mental ray with Backburner to run a render farm, you will need to purchase licenses from NVIDIA.The reason I brought it up, is for the simple matter of this: Note – the free license is good for a single stand-alone installation only, and does not include render-farm capabilities. The mental ray rendering plug in is available as a free download from NVIDIA and can be obtained here. Good news – you can still use it in 3ds Max 2018! However, if you want to use the Lighting Analysis Assistant for 3ds Max, which is still included, you need to be using the mental ray engine. In fact, I’m finding the quality of the images, especially interior scenes, to be superior in many ways to what I could achieve with mental ray or ART. So I’ve spent the last few months getting up to speed on the Arnold engine, specifically for use in Revit to Max rendering workflows, and I’ve become much more comfortable with it than I was when 3ds Max 2018 was initially released. I’m the sort of person who tries to adapt to new technology whenever I can, and I don’t usually have much trouble leaving the past in the past. 3ds Max 2018 includes the Arnold 5.0 rendering engine, along with the Advanced Ray Trace (ART) renderer, and no longer includes the legacy mental ray renderer that so many people have been using for the last several years.
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