Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software provide powerful, integrated 3D modelling, animation, rendering and compositing tools that enable artists and designers to ramp up for production more quickly. The two versions share core technology and features, but offer differentiated experiences and specialised toolsets for game developers, visual effects artists and graphic designers on the one hand and architects, designers, engineers and visualisation specialists on the other.

• Nitrous accelerated graphics Core– Enjoy dramatic improvements in performance and visual quality in the viewport.
• Substance procedural textures– Achieve a vast range of look variations with 80 new Substance procedural textures.
• mRigids rigid-body dynamics– Use the NVIDIA® PhysX® engine to create dynamic rigid-body simulations directly in the viewport.
• iray renderer– Get more predictable, near photo-real results without worrying about rendering settings.
• Enhanced UVW unwrapping– Create better UVW maps in less time, with a new mapping method.
• Sculpting and painting enhancements– Enjoy greater control over brushstrokes and their effects, with new Conform, Transform and Constrain-to-Spline brushes.