3D Studio MAX + VIZ Autodesk 3ds max & VIZ - Release history. Autodesk, Inc. Debuted 3D Studio MAX(TM), a completely re-architected, Windows NT(TM) version of the world's leading professional 3D animation software. Featuring an all-new real-time interface, support for graphics hardware acceleration and multiprocessor systems, and the first seamlessly extensible architecture in its market, 3D Studio MAX will deliver full workstation-class performance and functionality to the desktop. In addition, Autodesk previewed the first 3D Studio MAX plug-in, a sophisticated application for animating two-legged skinned characters, called Biped (part of Character Studio). 3D Studio MAX and Character Studio software is shipping; pricing information is available. 'In 1990s, the combination of 386/486-based PCs and AutoCAD let Autodesk overtake IBM and become the global leader in design software, with a desktop product,' said Carol Bartz, President and CEO of Autodesk, Inc.

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'To date, our 3D Studio product line has been tremendously successful, garnering nearly half of the entire worldwide market for professional 3D animation, on a relatively old operating system and modest hardware. 3D Studio MAX on Windows NT should have an 'AutoCAD effect' on the high-end 3D graphics and animation market: level the playing field in every respect except price, where we will win hands down.' The 3D Studio MAX software is a revolutionary addition to the 3D Studio(R) product line, the most popular solution for professional 3D modeling, rendering and animation. The product has previously been available only for MS-DOS(R), with the 3D Studio rendering engine also available for Silicon Graphics workstations. 'With 3D Studio MAX, Autodesk has done it again: delivered a robust 'platform' for 3D innovation,' said Bill Caffery, vice president of the Advanced Technologies Groups at Gartner Group, a Stamford, Connecticut-based market research firm. 'I believe Autodesk is the first major 3D software developer to re-architect for Windows NT, a feat which all serious contenders in this market must emulate to remain competitive.'

3D Studio MAX 3D Studio Product Line Autodesk has 70,000 DOS-based 3D Studio customers. Now it offers technologicaly superior 3D Studio MAX and VIZ. Technology Advancements 3D Studio MAX incorporates numerous technology advancements, which improve functionality and performance, including: Graphics Acceleration Using the Heidi graphics design structure developed by Autodesk, 3D Studio MAX software provides greatly accelerated shaded 3D graphics performance without hardware assistance. Through Heidi, 3D Studio MAX supports a wide array of graphic display devices, including the GLINT(R) chip set from 3Dlabs, which can provide TrueColor performance at two to four times MAX's 8-bit dithered performance. Using the Heidi technology, 3D Studio MAX drivers will also work with Open GL-based graphics cards. Multiprocessing/Multi-Tasking An extensively multi-threaded application, 3D Studio MAX takes full advantage of the symmetric multiprocessing features of the Windows NT operating system.

Thus, PCs with multiple CPUs can potentially apply more than one CPU to a single 3D Studio MAX operation, or assign individual processors to several MAX operations simultaneously.New Geometry Pipeline The highly efficient geometry pipeline provides 3D Studio MAX users with quick wireframe redraw capabilities and the ability to run the product in any or all viewports in a rendered mode, at any screen resolution, with or without 3D hardware acceleration. Renderer Independence 3D Studio MAX is designed to be rendering-solution independent-multiple software-based rendering solutions will be supported. Product Innovations Following are some of the key areas of innovation and improvement within 3D Studio MAX that provide artists and animators with new levels of efficiency, control and creativity: Seamless Interface To make the product more intuitive to computer artists and animators, Autodesk has created a single environment within the 3D Studio MAX software. This means that even modeling and keyframing operations are seamlessly integrated, their results are apparent on-screen immediately, and those operations can be accessed without exiting other core MAX commands. In addition, all objects have an editable 'data history,' so earlier creation and editing commands can be accessed and nondestructively modified at any time and the changes will automatically be reflected in the current object state. TrackView TrackView is a comprehensive timeline environment which enables precise manipulation of all the animatable tracks within MAX. An alternative way to view and control objects, TrackView provides a vertical 'flow chart' of any subset of the objects in a scene, and all of the actions, effects and processes applied to those objects.

TrackView lets animators bring sound files in to 3D Studio MAX and animate to music, and its function curve editor provides very advanced time editing controls including unlimited timing curves and notation tracks. Space Warps To facilitate the animation of scene-based special effects (i.e., black holes, explosions, etc.), a class of core component plug-ins called 'Space Warps' has been incorporated into 3D Studio MAX. These plug-ins let users define sets of objects and modify them collectively in real-time, in shaded mode, as users transform them. Advanced Modeling and Animation Tools 3D Studio MAX software's object orientation enables sophisticated referencing and instancing capabilities, thereby letting users work easily with highly complex scenes, and create deformation effects without the need for morph targets.

3D Studio MAX will offer full sets of both polygonal and spline-based modeling tools. Additionally, inverse kinematics (IK) is now a built-in core feature, accessible from an icon in the toolbar, and new IK features such as position and orientation pinning assist in character animation. MAX Plug-Ins 3D Studio MAX software will support plug-ins developed specifically for it, as well as a new category of highly integrated plug-ins known as 'core components.' Although it will not support plug-ins for previous (DOS-based) releases of the product, 3D Studio MAX has been enthusiastically embraced by all of the top 3D Studio plug-in partners, who are committed to delivering 3D Studio plug-ins and core components.

Core components are Windows Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) which are fully integrated with 3D Studio MAX itself. Because 3D Studio MAX is implemented as a series of DLLs, this method of 'plugging into' the product effectively lets third-party developers build seamless extensions to the 3D Studio MAX software's core, using Microsoft's C class libraries and compiler.

The API for 3D Studio MAX software will ship with each copy of the product. By using the core component approach to plug-in development, developers can create tools that function mode-lessly inside 3D Studio MAX, without 'suspending' the product's normal operations. 'In the past a plug-in that involved some amount of graphics editing would have to supply its own editor. Core components will be able to interact seamlessly with 3D Studio MAX software's own editing, keyframing, modeling, and rendering capabilities, which is a much more intuitive, efficient way for customers to utilize these third-party tools.

This is a major breakthrough in plug-in technology,' said Bob Bennett, senior product manager for 3D Studio MAX. 'With its revolutionary product 3D Studio MAX, Autodesk has further refined and dramatically expanded its extensible architecture to make 3D media more accessible to both users and plug-in developers than ever before,' said Tim Forcade, president of Forcade & Associates and author of the book The 3D Studio IPAS Plug-Ins Reference. '3D Studio MAX offers seamless interaction not only with its native processes but also with plug-ins created by 3rd party developers; in fact it will often be difficult to discern any difference - one of the primary goals in plug-in development.' System Requirements 3D Studio MAX software operates with fast Pentium III or Pentium 4-based computers and 100 percent compatibles equipped with Windows 2000 or higher, 256MB of RAM, an high-resolution SVGA graphics card, and a hard disk with 500MB of available space. 3D hardware accelerators are supported, but not required. (Ceny v CZ viz ). 3D Studio MAX Release 1.1 - What's new in Release 1.1?.

Far better and improved import/export functionality (.DWG, Adobe Illustrator). New modelling possibilities (Meshsmooth, Editablemesh, Bevelling). New special effects (Combustion, Sound Controller).

User SDK contained in 3D Studio MAX. Windows 95 compatibility. Allows to play and use (not modify) Character Studio files 3D Studio MAX Release 1.2 - Whats new in 3D Studio MAX R1.2?. Official support for Windows NT 4.0. SDK - software development kit included. 3D Studio MAX 1.2 update can be downloaded from.

Matrox Millenium HEIDI driver can be 3D Studio MAX Release 2.0 - Whats new in 3D Studio MAX 2.0?. More than 1.000 (!) new features and enhancements. Three-times more functions than in R1.2!. NURBS surfaces, selective Raytracing, particle systems, RT inverse kinematics, dynamics, lens effects, drag-n-drop materials, OpenGL and Direct3D support. Lots of plug-ins shipped with MAX 2.0, other free plug-ins available (see our ). More information about 3D Studio MAX 2.0 on 3D Studio MAX Release 2.5 - Whats new in 3D Studio MAX 2.5?.

Trimmed and additional NURBS, better Booleans, 3D Motion Tracking, displacement mapping, QuickTime 3.0, VRML-97, Kodak Cineon, SGI RGBA, VRML import, etc. More information about 3D Studio MAX 2.5 on. CZECH version of MAX2.5 by 3D Studio MAX Release 3.1 - Whats new in 3D Studio MAX R3?. faster and easier; nestable external references; application-wide scripting and macro-recording; a customizable work environment; a completely redesigned renderer; powerful organic modeling capabilities; NURBS; IGES import; and several features designed to enable creation of next-generation 3D game titles. More information about 3D Studio MAX 3 on. 3ds max 4 - Whats new in 3ds max 4?. New inverse kinematics, bones as parametric objects, skin deformers, polyobjects, motion blur, depth of view.

Realtime Direct3D, support for Intel MultiRes (MRM), HSDS by Mental Images. New features of user interface, Visual MaxScript, license manager using C-Dilla software key. New application name. More information about 3ds max 4 on. 3ds max 5 - Whats new in 3ds max 5?. New character animation, new generation of environment for game development (with support for DirectX 8 and DirectX 9), enhance workflow.

Radiosity (LightScape), Toon Shading. Seamless support for 3ds max 4.2 plugins. Includes reactor 1.0 (dynamics). New licensing available (network licenses, trial.) 3ds max 6 - Whats new in 3ds max 6?. Schematic views. Integrated mental ray® renderer 3.2 and Paint Studio for textures.

Integrated reactor 2 with ragdoll dynamics. 3D patches modelling. Support for AutoCAD 2004 and Architectural Desktop 2004, DWG format support. AEC tools and materials. Layer manager, commandline render, VC 7 API. More information about 3ds max 6 on 3ds max 7 - Whats new in 3ds max 7?

More information about 3ds max 7 on 3ds max 8 - Whats new in 3ds max 8? More information about 3ds max 8 on 3ds max - Whats new in 3ds max 9, 2008, 2009, 2010? More information about the latest versions of 'Autodesk 3ds Max' and '3ds Max Design' on. 3D Studio VIZ - New designer's tool based on MAX technology. New Windows vizualization and animation tool from Discreet (Kinetix). Based on 3D Studio MAX, targeted on CAD (AEC, MCAD) users.

Free plug-ins (Drag&Drop, Sun.), reads R13 and R14 DWGs. Creates 2D-sections, parametric door/windows. Camera match - fit your model with existing photo. New feature - AutoSnap to existing geometry. 50 new AEC materials.

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Does not contain inverse kinematics, subobject animation. Upgrades from 3DS R4/Classic, upgrades to 3DS MAX. about VIZ 3D Studio VIZ R2 - New version for architects and AEC.

DWG-Link: hot link to ACAD drawings. SmoothMove renderer. AEC objects and materials (dynamic stairs, rails, trees.). WalkThrough Assistant, DGN in/out. Now available with CZECH environment for VIZ 1.01 and 2.0!. about VIZ R2 3D Studio VIZ R3i - New version for architects and AEC.

Most new functions from MAX R3. AutoCAD 2000 support, incl. New DWG-link. Inverse kinematics. AutoCAD-like UI, layers. Hidden-line rendering with DWG output.

Direct printing. Modelling Content, Asset Manager. IGES in/out.

Now available with CZECH environment for VIZ R3! Autodesk VIZ 4 - New version with Global illumination. Most new functions from MAX 4. Integrated functionality of LightScape. New Global illumination renderer (radiosity) for natural lighting environment.

Improved DWG-link Autodesk VIZ 2005 - New version with Mental Ray. Most new functions from MAX 6. Integrated Mental Ray renderer. Architectural materials (as in VIZ Render). Render to texture, commandline render.

Autodesk VIZ 2006 - New version with interoperability. Most new functions from MAX 7. Integrated Mental Ray renderer 3.3. DWG Link to AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop 2006, Revit Building and Inventor. Toolpalettes, content browser, batch render, 3D DWF.

about VIZ 2006 Autodesk VIZ 2007 - New version with Vault. Most new functions from MAX 8. Integrated Mental Ray renderer 3.4. Xrefs, Asset Tracker, OpenEXR, AutoCAD 2007 compatibility, Toxik compatibility.

about VIZ 2007 Autodesk VIZ 2008 - New version with Vault. Most new functions from MAX 9.

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Integrated Mental Ray renderer 3.5. Select similar, architectural shaders, DirectX optimizations, AutoCAD 2008, Revit 2008, Inventor compatibility, Vista support. about VIZ 2007 Lightscape.

New renderer plug-in for 3DS MAX and VIZ. Raytracing and Radiosity add-on renderer which can be plugged in 3D Studio MAX or VIZ. Detailed configuration options, photorealistic renderings. about Lightscape Designer's Utility Pack - KINETIX add-on for 3D Studio MAX.

Contains:. 3D Props (architectural library) models in.max format. Texture Universe CD. Drag and Drop plug-in for easy placing of models and texture to the scene. Sunlight plug-in for placing of Sun according to geo-location and time. Map scaler plug-in for adaptive texture scaling Character Studio - A major MAX R3 plug-in for character animation.

Easy character animation by footsteps, motion capture, Biped (animation) + Physique (skinning). about Character Studio.