What's New in 3ds Max 2025.1 Update

Welcome to the 3ds Max 2025.1 Update! You can access the 3ds Max 2025.1 Update from your Autodesk Account.

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 2025.1 Update Release Notes.

For more on the evolution of 3ds Max over the years, check out the 3ds Max timeline.

Array Modifier Improvements

Updates to the Array Modifier involve faster processing time and animatable random number seeds.

Boolean Modifier Improvements

The updated Boolean Modifier includes improvements for performing volume based meshing tasks.

Paint Weights Improvement

This update includes s new parameters for the Paint Weights to give you better control painting strength when using Shift + Alt to brush skin weights for a bone.

Turbulent Color Noise

Turbulent Color Noise is a new OSL shader that emulates turbulence by repeatedly displacing a position slightly.

What's New in MAXtoA 5.7.1

3ds Max 2025.1 ships with updated denoising, improved MaterialX and OCIO support, plus API support for viewport display of procedural curves in MAXtoA 5.7.1.1.

Substance 3.0.0

3ds Max 2025.1 includes Substance 3.0.0, which introduces a new, open-source, Substance 3D Connector technology.

What else is new?

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

Color Management	There are several improvements to OCIO-based color management: The Hue/Blackness box and Whiteness slider in the Color Selector dialog are displayed in the rendering space when the Scene toggle is active. The color management settings in the `maxstart.max` file are respected after File > Reset. Custom object colors no longer appear desaturated. You can control the threshold and intensity for out-of-gamut and other warnings for the Color Selector dialog in the `[ColorPicker]` section of the `CurrentDefault.ini` file. The `IDisplayGamma` interface is being deprecated in favor of the `ColorPipelineMgr` interface. The first use of `IDisplayGamma` in a session logs a warning that it should be replaced for future compatibility.

Sample Skin Modifier Macro	There is now maxscript support for the Skin Modifier to let you easily identify and switch between painting mode and bone selection using a bound hotkey. This improved workflow means you can now bypass navigating between these two modes in the current UI. See Sample Skin Modifier Macro for more information.

Python 3.11.8	3ds Max 2025.1 has been updated to Python 3.11.8 with many security fixes.