Autodesk 3ds max

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Product

Autodesk 3ds max

Category

3D animation software

Brief Description

Autodesk® 3ds Max® 8 software builds on our promise to deliver state-of-the-art tools for creative and media professionals. Developed as a total animation package with a deep, productive feature set designed to accelerate workflow, 3ds Max is the leader in 3D animation for game development, design visualization, visual effects, and education

Price

S$5976

Subscription at S$667

All before 5% GST.Eu ,bundle and student pricing also available.

Main Features

Create your own reality.

Manage challenging creative projects. Achieve better results in less time. Autodesk® 3ds Max® 8 software delivers flexible, state-of-the-art, productive tools designed for 3D artists in many industries—game development, design visualization, and visual effects.

Expanding an already robust toolset, 3ds Max 8 provides new and enhanced functionality in areas of character development, asset management, and scripting tools.

Animation

Mix, edit, and transition motions from any 3ds Max animation. Import standard motion capture formats directly to your character rig. Use our new open file format based on XML to write motion files from custom tools and bring them into 3ds Max. Develop photorealistic characters with our improved character development features, cloth and hair simulation tools, award-winning Reactor® physics system, and particle flow.

UV mapping Tools

Control unfolding of UV seams with pelt mapping. Create a flat, unified map for texturing your objects by stretching out UVW coordinates. Relax UVs and remove distortion by accurately matching UVs to object geometry. Save tremendous amounts of time and hours of work since seams are exactly where they should be and rarely—if ever—need adjusting afterwards.

Skinning

Skin anything from low polygon, high-quality game meshes to the most dense of visual effects models. Vertices are now assigned to a bone by default to prevent unwanted stretching and minimize the need to edit envelopes.

Maxscript Scripting Language

Build solid Maxscripts in less time with our new Maxscript debugger. Add custom functionality into tools with full control over the user interface. Use this object-oriented scripting language to create scripts to extend your 3ds Max toolset, or to optimize your workflow throughout your pipeline.

Subscription

With Autodesk Subscription you get the latest releases of your Autodesk® software, incremental product enhancements, personalized web support direct from Autodesk technical experts, and self-paced training to help extend your skills. And with access to a range of exclusive community resources and members-only privileges, you can use the power of your design tools to the fullest and make the most of your technology investment.

System Requirements

Hardware

Intel® Pentium® III or AMD® processor, 500 MHz or higher (dual Intel)
Xeon® or dual AMD Athlon®or Opteron® 32-bit system recommended)
512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
500 MB swap space (2 GB recommended)
Graphics card supporting 1024x768x16-bit color with 64 MB RAM
(OpenGL® and Direct3D® hardware acceleration supported; 3D graphics accelerator 1280x1024x32-bit color with 256 MB RAM recommended)
Microsoft® Windows®–compliant pointing device (optimized for Microsoft IntelliMouse®)
Wacom™ Intuos® or similar pressure-sensitive tablet recommended for vertex paint
DVD-ROM drive
Optional: sound card and speakers, cabling for TCP/IP-compliant network, 3D hardware graphics acceleration, video input and output devices, joystick, MIDI instruments, three-button mouse

Software

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 (recommended), Windows XP Home Edition SP2, or Windows 2000 SP4.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
DirectX® 9.0c (required), OpenGL (optional)

More Information

http://www.autodesk.com/3dsmax

3ds Max 8 Technical Specifications (pdf - 286 Kb)

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