Bake to Texture:
Model courtesy of TurboSquid and their artist, Luke_Ahearn. |
Fluids:
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Interactive Extrusion and Inset:
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Viewport improvements:
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Arnold renderer:
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Installation |
You can now install updates such as this one without installing 3ds Max 2021 first. |
Weighted Normals Modifier |
Now includes support for multi-threaded processing to enhance speed and performance when performing calculations as well as other stability improvements. |
Explicit Normals Preservation for Mesh |
Applying an Edit Mesh modifier no longer invalidates explicit normals, nor do the following actions: Attach, Detach to Object, Detach to Element, Clone to Object, Clone to Element, Detach as Clone to Element. |
PBR material |
Both PBR materials now support displacement. |
Shared Views |
Shared Views now supports Physical material. |
SketchUp model importation |
There is improved handling of internal edge visibility, improving the imported mesh quality, and SketchUp 2020 models are now supported. |
Slate Material Editor |
The Slate Material Editor now pans and zooms smoother and faster when using a 4k monitor. In addition, the Search field has been improved to perform global search through all materials and maps in the editor. For example, if you were searching for the Advanced Wood map and typed "wood," the old search would not find it but now it will. |
Render output size |
HDTV resolution of 1280 x 720 is the new default output size. |
UDIM display |
When you work with UDIM, you are now able to view all textures in the viewport when using the Bitmap Lookup OSL shader, instead of just viewing one as when using the Multi-Tile map. |
User Defined Defaults |
Allows you to set your own default values for ParamBlock2 supported spinner, radial, checkbox, or input field through MAXScript calls. |
Viewport |
Depth of field now affects the environment map, the vignetting scale is now the same value as defined in the camera, Matte/Shadows materials now work in the viewport, and each viewport can now have their own exposure, white-balance and vignette settings. |