3ds Max 2017 New Features

Overview

Discover what's new in 3ds Max 2017. Get a review of the best new features, including the ART renderer, TextPlus, and Curve Editor keyframe tools.

What's new in 3ds Max 2017? The new user interface is key: flatter and faster than before. 3ds Max 2017 also introduces the Autodesk Raytracer (ART), a physically based renderer for photorealistic stills. Aaron F. Ross covers these features plus many others, explaining what to expect and how to use the new asset management, modeling, animation, materials, and rendering tools.

Syllabus

Introduction

Welcome

1. The New 3ds Max Interface

Appreciating the new UI
Scaling the interface
Choosing shading modes in viewports
Defining per-view settings and preferences

2. Assets and Interoperability

Accessing the Creative Market
Downloading from the Asset Library
Using Asset Library filters
Importing and replacing from the Asset Library
Visualizing computational fluid dynamics
Visualizing CFD as a gradient
Sending to Print Studio
Saving a model with Game Exporter
Saving animation with Game Exporter

3. Modeling and Animation

Creating compound objects with new Booleans
Managing operands with the Boolean Explorer
Modeling with the updated Bevel Profile
Creating type with TextPlus
Navigating updated Track Views
Navigating the updated Curve Editor
Introducing keys-only tools
Using Buffer Curves
Skin Voxel and Heat Map solvers

4. Materials and Mapping

Applying vector text decals with TextMap
Vector textures with ShapeMap
Placing maps with Texture Object Mask
Editing UVs with Unwrap UVW brushes
Shading with the Physical Material

5. Rendering

Introducing the ART renderer
Daylighting with ART Sun Positioner
Adjust ART Physical Sun and Sky
Switching renderers with a scene converter
A360 cloud rendering

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Aaron F. Ross

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