3DS Max and 3DS Max Design 2013 have been announced over on The Area by Ken Pimentel. New and improved features include After Effects Interoperability, Render Passes, Tabbed Layouts, Trackview Retiming, Customizable Workspaces, and much more. For full details visit The Area website.
Did anyone noticed on Ken’s Blog the “Things to watch for”?
Backface culled wireframe results in low performance
4 viewports is slower than 1 viewport
Maximize/minimize viewport is very slow
Massive number of textures can cause lag (can be fixed by reducing default texture size)
Large shadowmap can cause low performance (can be fixed by reducing default shadowmap size)
I wonder how in the past 10 years our Maximize/Min viewport’s have become slow…
New versions are usually installed after the first service pack is out…