What’s New in 3ds Max 2011

Autodesk^® 3ds Max^® 2011 3D modeling, animation, rendering software includes the following new and enhanced features:

• Slate, a new node-based material editor, enables you to more easily visualize and edit material component relationships.
• Quicksilver hardware renderer enables you to create high-fidelity pre-visualizations, animatics, and games-related marketing materials in less time.
• Graphite modeling and Viewport Canvas tools help accelerate modeling and texturing tasks.

• The new 3ds Max Composite feature offers high-performance, HDR-capable compositing tools and is based on technology from Autodesk^® Toxik^® software.
• 3ds Max 2010-compatible format enables you to save scene files to help manage the transition to 3ds Max 2011.

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Cebas volumeBreaker

volumeBreaker is a volumetric geometry fracturing tool that will instantly create sub-geometry within any mesh - geometry that perfectly fits together and fills any given volume. With volumeBreaker Cebas brings a Hollywood quality destruction tool to 3ds MAX. volumeBreaker was developed in consultation with, and to meet the very exacting demands of, VFX artists working on multi-million dollar movies - because of this, volumeBreaker truly is a production proven tool.

Still image from Roland Emmerich's movie "2012" courtesy of Uncharted Territory. volumeBreaker was used extensively by Uncharcterd Territory in the production of many of the destruction shots used in the film. Used with permission.

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Sam Khorshid talks about the making of 2012

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Perfect UVs by Pelt Mapping in 3ds Max

In this 3ds Max tutorial Korosh Ghanbarzadeh explains the Pelt Mapping function, which is a perfect tool for creating UVs for objects.

UVs are the key to taking full advantage of 3D software. In fact, you can’t do much without a good UV set. Many Important functions such as Displacement concept and Texturing are directly depended on an object’s UVW mapping. So I’ve decided to show you how to create qualified UVs inside 3ds Max.

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ParticleIllusion 3.0

particleIllusion 3.0

particleIllusion is a standalone application that allows you to quickly and easily create amazing effects: explosions, smoke, fire, sparkles, motion graphics backgrounds, space effects, creatures, and abstract artistic effects -- literally hundreds of different types of effects.

particleIllusion 3.0 is our fully-featured professional version. It uses the latest version of our particle engine, and can create the largest number of effects, with amazing realism and complexity.











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