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.

• Nitrous accelerated graphics Core—Enjoy dramatic improvements in performance and visual quality in the viewport.
• 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 viewport.
• iray renderer—Get more predictable, near photo-real results without worrying about rendering settings.
• Enhanced UVW unwrapping—Create better UVW maps in less time, with a new mapping method.
• Sculpting and painting enhancements—Enjoy greater control over brushstrokes and their effects, with new Conform, Transform, and Constrain-to-Spline brushes.