This webcast will demonstrate how the new rendering technologies, workflows, and animation features in Autodesk^® 3ds Max^® Design can help you create higher quality visualizations and effects.

Autodesk 3ds Max Benefits

New rendering technologies

• Exposure™ daylight simulation and analysis technology has been designed to assist architects in evaluating light intensity—a useful tool for analyzing indoor environmental quality for requirements such as LEED 8.1 certification. In addition to light-metering functionality, with various graphical outputs, this feature set includes the popular sun and sky models and a new quick-settings dashboard interface.

• The Reveal™ rendering toolset gives the user precise control over what is rendered: be it their entire scene minus a specific object, one given object, or a specific region of the Viewport and the Framebuffer. This toolset supports iterative workflows and lets artists get their final rendered imagery faster.

• The new ProMaterials™ library simulates manufacturer-related building and design materials. It gives designers fast access to the accurate, visual information clients demand.

• Photometric lighting enhancements include support for new types of area lights, photometric web previews in the Browse dialog box and Light UI, as well as improved near-field photometry quality and spot distribution.

More support for interapplication workflows

• The new FBX®-based Recognize™ scene loading technology enables 3ds Max users to quickly and accurately import geometry, lights, materials, and cameras from Revit 2009 scenes.

• A new, on-screen, interactive ViewCube™ navigation widget gives design and visualization professionals a fast and intuitive means of navigating 3D scenes—one that is consistent across Autodesk’s 3D products, including AutoCAD, Inventor, Autodesk® Maya®, and Revit software.

• A new SteeringWheels™ camera interface gives users a simple-to-use camera interface, common to several of Autodesk’s 3D products. This feature was designed to create a comfortable transition from navigating in 2D software to navigating in a 3D environment.

• Higher OBJ translation fidelity and more export options facilitate exporting/ importing files from/to Autodesk® Mudbox™ software and other modeling applications.

New mapping and animation workflow features

• New UV texture features include a UV spline mapping tool, and enhanced Pelt and Relax toolsets that streamline the UVW unwrap workflow.

• Biped now offers animators a more efficient workflow for rigging quadrupeds—along with other features that streamline the character animation process.

• Animators can now rotate Biped objects around the Working Pivot as well as the Pick Pivot—facilitating the creation of certain kinds of dramatic animations, for example, a character falling to the ground.

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