In UI terms, the layout of the viewport has been made more customisable, with the option to tab between saved layouts and as part of Autodesk’s overall interoperability drive, it is now possible to use Maya hotkeys and mouse gestures in Max. Particle Flow simulations should also display significantly faster in the viewport. There have also been updates to the iray GPU-accelerated interactive renderer, including support for motion blur and to the Nitrous viewport – including image-based lighting, depth of field and Bokeh effects. (We assume this is the same as the ‘deformable poly’ shown in this sneak peek.) There is also a new gPoly base object for improved animation playback where mesh deformation does not change topology. In the animation toolset, animations can now be retimed in the Track View without generating new keyframes, or keyframes needing to be present in the section affected and there is single-click round-trip interoperability between 3ds Max CAT characters, MotionBuilder and Maya. The biggest single new feature is probably the new mCloth module in the MassFX physics framework, which simulates tearable fabric, and provides support for dynamic ragdoll hierarchies. However, today’s announcement goes into far more detail, and there are one or two suprises.
If you’ve been following Autodesk’s sneak peek videos, many of the new features will already be familiar to you. The upcoming release will form part of Autodesk’s 2013 digital entertainment creation product line, which also includes updates to Maya, Softimage, MotionBuilder and Mudbox and a new Ultimate product bundle. See more videos of the new features in Max 2013 on Autodesk’s YouTube channel.Īutodesk has formally announced the new features in 3ds Max 2013, including the new mCloth simulation system, retiming in the Track View, and updates to the iray renderer and Nitrous graphics core. 3ds Max 2013’s MassFX physics system in action, showing the new mCloth module, and one-click ragdoll controls for bipeds.
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