3DS Max 2008 announced

Autodesk announced today the details of Max 10, now called 3DS Max 2008. New features include viewport optimizations that result in much improved interactivity when handling large scenes, an "artist-friendly modeling workflow", a Scene Explorer that provides a hierarchical view of scene data, Biped enhancements, a new MAXScript ProEditor, interactive viewport previews of shadows (including self-shadowing and up to 64 lights simultaneously) and the Max sun/sky system, etc. Find out more at Autodesk’s 3DS Max pages. Also of note, an interesting blog post at The Area. (Note: Keep in mind that more new features usually surface between the official announcement and the final release of the software.)