Discreet plans to provide 3ds Max 7.5 as an exclusive upgrade for subscription customers from mid-April. Developed for full compatibility with 3ds Max 7, the release adds integrated hair and fur creation and animation systems, mental ray 3.4, and a design toolset connecting 3ds Max features with DWG-based 3D CAD applications such as Autodesk VIZ and Autodesk Revit.
– Hair and Fur: Based on Joe Alter’s Shave and a Haircut, 3ds Max 7.5 provides styling and dynamics tools for realistic hair and related effects. These include styling tools, Hair Dynamics, mental ray integration for fast, memory-efficient direct rendering with native mental ray hair primitives, and Hair Plus for using geometric examples as individual objects.
– mental ray 3.4: Every 3ds Max 7.5 licence now provides access to the rendering system’s features.
– The new version combines advanced modelling functions from 3ds Max and Autodesk VIZ for product designers, architects and engineers. Radiosity Adaptive Subdivision adds adaptive subdivision to the radiosity plug-in for higher quality and more efficient, error-free processing. Batch Render produces a sequence of stills from different viewpoints. UVW Mapping Improvement places materials at scale more easily and accurately. Scene State stores objects, layers, materials, cameras and lighting as a reusable scene state. Autodesk Revit 7 interoperability lets users import a Revit model through DWG and produce high-quality images in 3ds Max. Autodesk Inventor 7 interoperability provides direct access to Inventor files through the import tool. DWF export sends 3ds Max 7.5 objects to Autodesk DWF Viewer or Composer.
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