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What's New in 3ds Max

2024.1 Update

Welcome to 3ds Max 2024.1 Update! You can

access the 3ds Max 2024.1 Update from your
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Read on to learn about the new features and

updated workflows you'll find in this release.
For technical details including What's Fixed,
please see the 3ds Max 2024.1 Update
Release Notes.

Boolean Modifier
Improvements
The release contains several Boolean
modifier improvements, including a new
caching method, support for normals,
and various bug fixes.

Array Modifier Updates

New Array By Element methods are now
included in all of the Array modifier
Distribution Rollouts, giving you greater
control over the arrangement of
elements.

Create Custom Defaults

User-defined defaults now available
through the context menus in the UI.

Animation Controller
Improvements
Modelers and animators will benefit
from improvements to the Copy and
Paste Animation commands that
previously existed in 3ds Max.

Smart Extrude Improvements

Updates related to smoothing and
normals have been made to the Smart
Extrude workflow.

What else is new?

This release of 3ds Max also includes the
following changes and improvements.

Spline The following updates

Improvements accelerate spline
modeling and let you
model splines more
fluidly:

Connect open
knots: When
manipulating a
spline that has
more than one
open element, you
can now use
Automatic
Welding and
Insert mode to
quickly
draw/continue
from an open knot
of one element to
an open knot of
another element.
This workflow
results in two
elements that are
correctly welded
and connected
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continuous
element.
Close Spline
prompt: A Close
Spline prompt no
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when using
operations found
in the Edit Spline
modifier or
Editable Spline
object, or when
using Automatic
Weld to close an
open spline
element. This
update lets you
continue your
spline creation
workflow without
interruption. See
Editable Spline
(Vertex).
New vertices
respect
neighboring knot
types: When
inserting new
vertices on a
spline, the knot
type of the new
vertex is based on
the knot types of
its neighboring
vertices:
If both
neighboring
vertices are
the same
knot type,
like Corner,
the new
vertex
inherits the
Corner type.
If the
neighboring
vertices are
not the same
knot type,
for example
one is Bezier
and one is
Corner, the
new vertex
inherits the
Bezier type.

This update
affects the Edit
Spline modifier
and Editable
Spline's Refine,
CrossInsert, and
Divide operations
as well as Shape
Booleans,
Chamfer/Fillet
modifier, and the
Boolean modifier.
New Vertex Type
parameter is now
respected: When
working with
Editable Splines
or the Edit Spline
modifier, creating
a new vertex in
Create Line and
Insert modes
respects the
selected New
Vertex Type
parameter
(Geometry
rollout)

VertexPaint The performance of the

performance VertexPaint Modifier is
now up to 10x faster
when using the brush
tools to apply or modify
vertex paint values.

FFD The following

performance performance
improvements have
been made to the FFD
Modifiers:

FFD 2x2x2: up to
1.13x faster
FFD 3x3x3: up to
1.14x faster
FFD 4x4x4: up to
1.34x faster
FFD(box) 8x8x8:
up to 1.91x faster
FFD(box) Space
Warp 8x8x8:
2.06x faster

Slate Material You can import multiple

Editor images at once into the
Improvement SME. Simply select the
desired images in a
Windows Explorer
window, then drag and
drop them into the
Slate Material Editor.

Physical The physical camera

Camera custom depth of field is
Improvement now working in the
viewport.

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Color There are several

Management improvements to the
OCIO-based color
management
introduced as a
technology preview in
3ds Max 2024:

Sliders in the
Color Selector
dialog indicate
values that cannot
be reproduced on
your display. In
addition, there is
a warning when
the selected color
is out of gamut for
your display or
rendering space.
For UI colors and
non-color data,
the numeric
columns in the
Color Selector
show the same
values in float and
integer format,
rather than the
scene and display
values.
When using a
custom
configuration, you
can now select
OCIO archives
(.ocioz files)
instead of only
config files (.ocio
files).
Color
management in
the viewport is
disabled when
using the Nitrous
Direct3D 9 (DX9)
or Legacy OpenGL
display drivers.
However, images
are still rendered
correctly.

Customizable You can now choose

Scrollbar sizes from three different
scrollbar sizes in the
Preferences: Small,
Medium, or Large.
This is particularly
useful when working
with 4k monitors, as
the default Small
scrollbar size can be
hard to select. To
change scrollbar sizes,
choose a size option
from the Scrollbar Size
drop-down in the
Preferences Settings
General tab.

ATF Importer 3ds Max's Autodesk

Translation Framework
(ATF) importer now
supports NX 2212,
SolidEdge 2023, and
SolidWorks2023.

Arnold for 3ds 3ds Max ships with

Max 5.6.2.0 MAXtoA 5.6.2.0 for
Arnold 7.2.1.1 which
introduces an updated
AOV manager,
Automatic Cyrptomatte
setup, and the ability to
set Crypto Asset tags
on objects.
Additional fixes from
MAXtoA 5.6.1.0,
including a new
distance shader, the
ability to define the
Auto-TX Path,
improved translation of
the Bitmap shader, and
a new default for the
Re-translate scene on
Frame Change option
are also included as
part of this update.
See the MAXtoA 5.6.2.0
Release Notes and
MAXtoA 5.6.1.0 Release
Notes for a full list of
features.

Topics in this section

Boolean Modifier Improvements

The release contains several Boolean
modifier improvements, including a new
caching method, support for normals,
and various bug fixes.
Smart Extrude Improvements
Updates related to smoothing and
normals have been made to the Smart
Extrude workflow.
Array Modifier Updates
Create Custom Defaults
User-defined defaults now available
through the context menus in the UI.
Animation Controller Improvements
Modelers and animators will benefit
from improvements to the Copy and
 Paste Animation commands that
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previously existed in 3ds Max.

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