Improved Workflow with Slate Material Editor
Visualize and edit material component relationships more easily with Slate, a new node-based editor for complex material networks that helps improve your workflow and drive productivity.

Faster Hardware Renderer
Create high-fidelity previsualizations, animatics, and games-related marketing materials in less time with Quicksilver, an innovative new hardware renderer that helps produce high-quality images at enhanced speeds. This new multithreaded rendering engine uses both the CPU and the GPU, supporting alpha and z-buffer render elements, depth-of-field, motion blur, dynamic reflections, lighting effects (area, photometric, ambient occlusion, and indirect), precision adaptive shadow maps, and the ability to render at larger-than-screen resolutions.

Live-Action Footage Integration
Enhance rendered passes and incorporate them into live-action footage with 3ds Max Composite, a fully featured, high-performance, HDR-capable compositor based on technology from Toxik software. The Composite toolset incorporates keying, color correction, tracking, camera mapping, raster and vector paint, spline-based warping, motion blur, depth of field, and tools to support stereoscopic productions.