3D Studio Max 2.5
Company: Discreet (Former Kinetix a subdivision of Autodesk)
Platform: Windows NT, Windows 95/98
Minimum Hardware Requirements: Pentium 150, 64mb RAM3D Studio MAX is a powerful modelling and animation package. It provides interactive animation, scripting, plugin interface, NURBS and polygon modelling. 3Dstudio MAX is Multithreaded and provides support for OpenGL and Direct3D.
3D Studio MAX provides a unified environment through one Windows interface and you don't have to transition between subsystems; everything's fully integrated. Everything is editable and animateable and its very extensible through the plugin arcitecture and scripting functions, almost everything is in fact a plugin in 3D Studio MAX. Modelling is very flexible because operations can be instanced, referenced, and copied within and between objects. The Software Developer's Kit allows anyone to create plugins for 3D Studio MAX.
Other features are the Track view which manages time in a modeless manner, Inverse kinematics, integrated network rendering, the Materials editor for material creation and editing, Video post for post production and much more.
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