Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2020.3

MAXtoA plugin updated to support Arnold 5.4, but otherwise, it's mainly bugfixes this time round.

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2020.2

Update adds new viewport background mode, new SketchUp importer, more updates to Chamfer.

Wednesday, August 28th, 2019

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2020.1

Latest update to the 3D software adds new hotkey editor, support for three floating viewports, more updates to the Chamfer modifier.

Wednesday, June 12th, 2019

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2020

New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Check out new 3ds Max UV unwrapping plugin UVReactor

Updated: Features added in the 1.1 and 1.2 releases include Multi Object Mode, UDIM packing, and the new UVReactor modifier.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max

Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.

Thursday, October 31st, 2024

Get Pulze's free Scene Manager Lite for 3ds Max

Get the free edition of the 3ds Max scene organizer described as 'Scene States on steroids'. Licensed for commercial use.

Sunday, May 19th, 2024

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2025

Check out the changes ijn the 3D modeling and rendering software, including updates to retopology, OCIO color management and USD.

Thursday, March 28th, 2024

Thinkinetic ships Pulldownit 5.7 for Maya and 5.8 for 3ds Max

Sizeable updates to the shattering and dynamics plugin add new Fast Stacking & Deactivation solver, new fracturing and simulation controls.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2024

MxTools releases FormCutter 3.0 for 3ds Max

Interesting hard surface modelling add-on gets support for real-time cuts for quick shape exploration.

Thursday, June 1st, 2023

cebas releases finalRender Drop 6 for 3ds Max

GPU-accelerated spectral renderer gets new dedicated smoke and fire material, plus temporal denoising.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

iToo Software releases Forest Pack 7.4.3 for 3ds Max

Scattering plugin gets support for V-Ray 6, plus new options for replacing scene objects by name.

Thursday, July 14th, 2022

Maxon releases Redshift for AMD in public beta

Once Nvidia-only GPU renderer now supports AMD gaming and workstation GPUs on Windows as well as macOS.

Monday, June 27th, 2022