3DS Max 2015 Extension 2 released

Is this same camera sequencer the same as the Prosequencer script? The skinning is the most interesting part for me.
Think Positive!

I can’t wait to compare Houdini 14 to the next Max. Right now I am assuming it will just be more promises and “just around the corner” but would love to be proven wrong…. houdini 14 is looking fabulous

For me, Camera Sequencer is just a camera switcher, Prosequencer script is much better and powerfull….
I’m desesperate

this is good stuff…basically more stuff to us faster.

@rps… Everything else aside, one thing about your comment particularly caught my attention, how can your experience be getting “progressively” painful with Max? Max’s development definitely hasn’t progressed at the pace or the way many of us had hoped for these passed few years, and I agree even this team hasn’t done a head turning job(yet at least), but it has gotten MUCH better throughout these years, both performance wise and feature wise while becoming much much more stable compared to previous versions, for someone who has used Max for the last “13” years, you should know that better than most of us, one would imagine.

As a Max user, there are a lot of things I want to say right now about how things have been done for the past year or how things are looking in the horizon for Max, many of which aren’t that positive, but I’ve decided to hold off until the 2016 release, because there’s a part of me that hopes that this team maybe finally working on some fundamental issues for Max, that would clearly show their unconditional commitment to Max, things that would impact Max’s future 5 years from now(a modern interface done right could be an example), or things that would actually be considered pioneering instead of just hasty implementation of features that have been in other packages for years, those are the type of things that tells me they are truly committed to Max’s future.

I’ll end my thoughts on this release with this quote from Eddie Perlberg in his interview with fxguide after he took over(just a reminder of things that’s been promised):

““No more is a feature going to be developed and then left alone,” says Perberg, “that is one of the things we are going to focus on … to continue to grow those things so that they continue to provide more and more functionality, and not just they launch with, ‘Isn’t that cool’, and then they get thrown to the back.””

Yes we definitely wouldn’t want that to happen, any more.

Lazer,
The service Pack was released at the same time as the Extension is being installed with the Application Manager. For now, to get the benefits of the Extension release, you will need to download it using your subscription account and install it manually. We are hoping the Application Manager is updated soon to accommodate the extension benefits.

so they`ve fixed the disappearing icons in the UI then ? because it would be rather odd to add a bunch of new stuff without fixing obvious bugs like that ?

These ones are okay, for sure. It’s better than the Maya Extension (even though Maya already had some of these features).

“1. OpenSubDiv support
2. Alembic support
3. Enhanced ShaderFX
4. Dual Quaternion skinning
5. Camera sequencer”

For me Max needs better performance (even better than now), multithread PFlow and a proper dynamics system. Like … Maya can make proper cloth, fire, smoke, they have a good instancing system, hair that works better and they are getting BiFrost.

We need something similar or BiFrost.

I can’t leave Max because of the wealth of knowledge I get from other Max users, but we need this improvements to not be watching the other guys lawn all the time.