Overview

This product is available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain and Ireland only.

Description

Tackle any project and achieve the results you want in less time. Autodesk® 3ds Max® 9 software lets you manage complex data and scale your team to meet the needs of next-generation production pipelines.

Performance
Work with ever-increasing amounts of data and more complex scenes. The new 64-bit version of Autodesk 3ds Max 9 takes advantage of the latest technology advancements, to address challenges you face in next-generation production pipelines.

Productivity
Quickly model inorganic shapes with Pro Booleans. Place animation into separate layers to easily tweak dense and complex animations. View scene complexity statistics along with the resulting frame rate to measure and optimize scene performance. Feature enhancements in 3ds Max 9—such as faster solving of complex cloth dynamics—deliver the speed and precision needed to meet time-sensitive production deadlines.

Pipeline Efficiencies
Easily share files, track work-in-progress assets, and customize production pipelines to accelerate creative workflows. Improvements to "XRefs" for better interaction with linked assets, support for relative paths, and Autodesk® Vault functionality help production teams optimize workflow and manage collaboration among members of a creative team.

Rendering Enhancements
Produce stunning photo-real imagery. Use new mental ray® 3.5 shaders to easily create beautiful skies with shadows from the sun or simulate metallic car paint. In addition, new presets for ambient occlusion, rounded corner effects, reflections, and refractions make it easier to achieve realistic, stunning results. Harness the full power of the mental ray rendering engine within Autodesk 3ds Max 9 software.

Note: mental ray is a registered trademark of mental images GmbH licensed for use by Autodesk, Inc.

Minimum requirements (manufacturer specifications)

For 32-bit version

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (Service Pack 2 or higher) or Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional (Service Pack 4)
• Intel® Pentium® IV or AMD Athlon® XP or higher processor
• 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
• 500 MB swap space (2 GB recommended)
• Hardware-accelerated OpenGL® and Direct3D supported
• Microsoft Windows-compliant pointing device (optimized for Microsoft IntelliMouse®)
• DVD-ROM drive
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 or higher
• DirectX® 9.0c (required), OpenGL® (optional)

For 64-bit version

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64
• Intel® EM64T, AMD Athlon® 64 or higher, AMD Opteron® processor
• 1 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• 500 MB swap space (2 GB recommended)
• Hardware-accelerated OpenGL® and Direct3D supported
• Microsoft Windows-compliant pointing device (optimized for Microsoft IntelliMouse)
• DVD-ROM drive
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 or higher
• DirectX® 9.0c (required), OpenGL® (optional)
  

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