Using the same technology that our customers have already grown to rely on in Autodesk® Revit® software and AutoCAD® software, 3ds Max features Autodesk A360 rendering support available to customers on Autodesk® Maintenance and Desktop Subscription. Users now have access to cloud rendering in A360 right from within 3ds Max. A360 takes advantage of the power of cloud computing so that 3ds Max users can create impressive high-resolution images without having to tie up their desktop or requiring specialized rendering hardware, helping them save time and reduce costs. What's more, Subscription customers can create solar study renderings, interactive panoramas, illuminance simulations, re-render images from previously uploaded files and easily share their files with other teams or colleagues.
Rendering photorealistic images is now easier thanks to a number of supported NVIDIA® iray® and mental ray® enhancements:
iray Enhancements
iray Light Path Expressions (LPEs) are now extended to allow artists to isolate lights and geometry into LPE render elements based on the object layer name. This greatly enhances an artist's ability to adjust specific lights or explore design options for specific objects in post production. The new iray Irradiance render element provides architects and lighting designers with feedback on illumination levels in their model, while support for iray Section Planes enables designers to easily look inside their designs without complex modeling.
mental ray Enhancements
mental ray now includes Light Importance Sampling (LIS) and a new Ambient Occlusion render element. LIS produces faster, higher-quality images in complex scenes. The new AO render element has GPU acceleration with graceful CPU-fallback.
The mental ray renderer now uses version 3.13.
A newly available Windows environment variable lets you specify whether Backburner reports certain missing files during a rendering job as errors or warnings.