The latest revision of Autodesk 3ds Max comes with new Max Creation Graph, XRef Renovations and Design Workspace.
3ds Max 2016 is bigger and better than ever, with tons of big new features. Max Creation Graph, one of the top feature requests on User Voice, is an all-new visual node-based tool creation environment in 3ds Max 2016.
New Max Creation Graph: A new node-based content and tool creation toolkit integrated by user request. Empowers users to extend 3ds Max with geometric objects and modifiers. Users can package graphs and share them with other users.
New XRef Renovations: Externally reference objects to scenes and animate/edit material on the XRef object in the source file without having to merge the object into the scene. Non-destructive animation workflows and improved XRef stability simplify collaboration among teams and throughout the production pipeline.
New intuitive Design Workspace and Template Systems: The Design Workspace provides easy access to object placement, lighting, rendering, modeling and texturing tools to create high-quality stills and animations; built-in settings for rendering, environments, lighting and units.
3ds Max and 3ds Max Design are coming together.
Check out Max Creation Graph and all the other new features on autode.sk/Max2016
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