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This latest release of Autodesk 3ds Max 8 provides new and enhanced functionality in four key areas:
- Character Development: Craft and refine your character animation with advanced rigging tools, motion mixing, and motion retargeting.
- Advanced Modeling & Texturing: Create realtime shaders inside the 3ds Max viewport with DirectX® and .fx support. Accurately texture a 3D model in less time with our new UV pelt mapping feature.
- Comprehensive Development Framework: Customize your pipeline and improve workflow with our robust, well-documented SDK. Build solid MAXScripts in less time with our new MAXScript debugger. Efficiently exchange scene and animation data with XML and use the free, downloadable Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer for review and approval collaboration.
- Complex Data & Asset Management: Share, control, and manage your work-in-progress assets using Asset Tracker and Autodesk® Vault, a full-featured data management and asset tracking solution.
Autodesk 3ds Max 8 Features:
* Create your own reality. Manage challenging creative projects. Achieve better results in less time. Autodesk® 3ds Max® 8 software delivers flexible, state-of-the-art, productive tools designed for 3D artists in many industries—game development, design visualization, and visual effects.
Expanding an already robust toolset, 3ds Max 8 provides new and enhanced functionality in areas of character development, asset management, and scripting tools.
* Animation. Mix, edit, and transition motions from any 3ds Max animation. Import standard motion capture formats directly to your character rig. Use our new open file format based on XML to write motion files from custom tools and bring them into 3ds Max. Develop photorealistic characters with our improved character development features, cloth and hair simulation tools, award-winning Reactor® physics system, and particle flow.
* Modeling. Extensive, industry-best polygon tools for low- or high-resolution modeling. New, superior polygon modeling tools accelerate the process of adding detail to geometry. Use our fast, unique Edit Poly approach to create everything from simple to complex models.
* UV Mapping Tools. Control unfolding of UV seams with pelt mapping. Create a flat, unified map for texturing your objects by stretching out UVW coordinates. Relax UVs and remove distortion by accurately matching UVs to object geometry. Save tremendous amounts of time and hours of work since seams are exactly where they should be and rarely—if ever—need adjusting afterwards.
* Skinning. Skin anything from low polygon, high-quality game meshes to the most dense of visual effects models. Vertices are now assigned to a bone by default to prevent unwanted stretching and minimize the need to edit envelopes.
* Maxscript Scripting Language. Build solid Maxscripts in less time with our new Maxscript debugger. Add custom functionality into tools with full control over the user interface. Use this object-oriented scripting language to create scripts to extend your 3ds Max toolset, or to optimize your workflow throughout your pipeline.
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