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Adapt 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design to your personal way of working by selecting from a choice of default or custom workspaces.

With the understanding that small things can make a big difference, 3ds Max and Max Design 2013 includes a number of improvements suggested by customers using the Small Annoying Things forum at 3dsmaxfeedback.autodesk.com.

Vast range of texture painting, mapping, and layering options, including the Slate material editor, Viewport Canvas painting toolset, and the Autodesk Material Library.

Achieve a vast range of look variations with a library of 80 Substance resolution-independent procedural textures.

Take advantage of the multi-threaded NVIDIA® PhysX® engine to create more compelling, dynamic rigid-body simulations directly in the 3ds Max/Max Design viewport.

Retime portions of animations to increase or decrease their speed by changing the tangency of the existing animation curve.

Create rigid and soft-body, cloth, fur, hair, and particles, and explore the new MassFX system of integrated simulation solvers.

Create more intelligent, believable characters and high-quality animations with CAT, biped, physique, and crowd animation functionality.

Take advantage of accelerated GPUs and multicore workstations to iterate faster and handle larger data sets with limited impact on interactivity.

Get more predictable, photo-real results that more accurately portray the physical world without worrying about rendering settings.

Iterate more effectively, using a live rendering session that updates automatically as changes are made to lighting, materials, and geometry.

Use mental ray® or iray® renderers to render complex high-resolution details such as a human ear on low-resolution geometry.

Create high-fidelity previsualizations, animatics, design dailies, and games-related marketing materials in less time.

Perform simple compositing operations directly within 3ds Max using a schematic node-based interface.

Integrated rendering and unlimited batch rendering with the native 3ds Max and mental ray® renderers.

Enjoy two-way data exchange with Adobe® After Effects® software.

Use the Autodesk® DirectConnect® family of translators to exchange industrial design data with many CAD products.

Directly import Revit® files and select a data view to load.

Convert 3ds Max CAT bipedal characters into characters that are compatible with the Autodesk® HumanIK® solver used in Autodesk® Maya® 2013 software and Autodesk® MotionBuilder® 2013 software.

Smoothly transfer 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design data across file iterations, software applications, users, and locations.