Autodesk 3ds Max 2012

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

Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk 3ds Max Design software provide powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing tools that enable artists and designers to me quickly ramp up f production. The two versions share ce technology and features, but offer differentiated experiences and specialized toolsets f game developers, visual effects artists, and graphic designers on the one hand, and architects, designers, engineers, and visualization specialists on the other.
 What's New in 3ds Max 2012
 • Nitrous Accelerated Graphics Ce: Enjoy dramatic improvements in perfmance and visual quality in the viewpt.
 • Substance Procedural Textures: Achieve a vast range of look variations with 80 new Substance procedural textures.
 • mRigids Rigid-Body Dynamics: Leverage the NVIDIA PhysX engine to create dynamic rigid-body simulations directly in the viewpt.
 • iray Renderer: Get me predictable, photo-realistic results without wrying about rendering settings. Play a video showing this feature
 • Single-Step Suites Interoperability: Take advantage of the focused toolsets in the Autodesk 3ds Max Entertainment Creation Suites 2012, with new single-step interoperability between the products found in the suites.
 • Enhanced UVW Unwrapping: Create better UVW maps in less time, with a new mapping method. Play a video showing this feature
 • Sculpting and Painting Enhancements: Enjoy greater control over brushstrokes and their effects, with new Confm, Transfm, and Constrain-to-Spline brushes. Play a video showing this feature
 • Vect Displacement Map Suppt: Use mental ray iray to render complex high-resolution details created in Autodesk Mudbox software certain other packages on low-resolution geometry.
 • Enhanced, Me Consistent F-Curve Edit: Enjoy some of the best features from the f-curve edits within each of the products in the Autodesk 3ds Max Entertainment Creation Suites 2012, combined into a toolset that offers me consistent functionality and terminology.
 • Stylistic Rendering: Create a variety of non-photealistic (NPR) effects that simulate artistic styles created by hand, with the new ability to render stylized images in the viewpt and with the Quicksilver renderer.
 • ProOptimizer Enhancements: You can now optimize models faster, me efficiently, and with better results.
 • Improved Start-Up Time and Memy Footprint: Targeted perfmance improvements developed as part of the XBR initiative enable tools to be me intelligently loaded as required.
 • UI Enhancements: An enhanced user interface (UI) adjusts to dark UI col schemes, perfms faster, and offers a me consistent contextual UI location and access to help.
 • Caddy Improvements: The Caddy in-canvas UI offers better usability, with a me predictable contextual UI location, quicker interaction, and default behavi which does not occlude the artist’s selection.

System Requirements

32-Bit 3ds Max 2012 or 3ds Max Design 2012 for Windows

Operating system: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional operating system, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business operating system (SP2 or higher), or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional operating system (SP3 or higher)

For general animation and rendering (typically fewer than 1,000 objects or 100,000 polygons):
- Intel® Pentium® 4 1.4 GHz or equivalent AMD® processor with SSE2 technology*
- 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
- 2 GB swap space (4 GB recommended)**
- 3 GB free hard drive space
- Direct3D® 10 technology, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card† (256 MB or higher video card memory, 1 GB or higher recommended)
- Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
- DVD-ROM drive††
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 8.0 internet browser or higher or Mozilla® Firefox® 3.0 internet browser or higher
- Internet connection for web downloads and Autodesk® Subscription-aware access

64-Bit 3ds Max 2012 or 3ds Max Design 2012 for Windows

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x64, Microsoft Windows Vista Business x64 (SP2 or higher), or Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 (SP3 or higher)

For general animation and rendering (typically fewer than 1,000 objects or 100,000 polygons):
- Intel® 64 or AMD64 processor with SSE2 technology*
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
- 4 GB swap space (8 GB recommended)**
- 3 GB free hard drive space
- Direct3D 10, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card† (256 MB or higher video card memory, 1 GB recommended)
- Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
- DVD-ROM drive††
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher or Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or higher browser
- Internet connection for web downloads and Autodesk Subscription-aware access

For large scenes and complex data sets (typically more than 1,000 objects or 100,000 polygons):
- Intel® 64 or AMD64 processor with SSE2 technology*
- 8 GB RAM
- 8 GB swap space**
- 3 GB free hard drive space
- Direct3D 10, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card† (1 GB or higher video card memory)
- Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
- DVD-ROM drive††
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher or Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or higher browser
- Internet connection for web downloads and Autodesk Subscription-aware access