Later, the product name was changed to '3ds max' (all lower case) to better comply with the naming conventions of Discreet, a Montreal-based software company which Autodesk had purchased. It was released by Kinetix, which was at that time Autodesk's division of media and entertainment.Īutodesk purchased the product at the second release update of the 3D Studio MAX version and internalized development entirely over the next two releases. This version was also originally created by the Yost Group. After 3D Studio DOS Release 4, the product was rewritten for the Windows NT platform, and renamed '3D Studio MAX'. The release of 3D Studio made Autodesk's previous 3D rendering package AutoShade obsolete. The original 3D Studio product was created for the DOS platform by the Yost Group, and published by Autodesk.

3ds Max features shaders (such as ambient occlusion and subsurface scattering), dynamic simulation, particle systems, radiosity, normal map creation and rendering, global illumination, a customizable user interface, and its own scripting language. It is also used for movie effects and movie pre-visualization. It is frequently used by video game developers, many TV commercial studios, and architectural visualization studios. It has modeling capabilities and a flexible plugin architecture and must be used on the Microsoft Windows platform. It is developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. English, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, KoreanĪutodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images.

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