3DS max 7.5 announced! This update is avalable only for 3DS max 7 users on subscription
3ds max 7.5 Highlights:
* Hair and Fur
* based on Joe Alter's highly regarded "Shave and Haircut"
* offers numerous styling and dynamics tools for creating amazingly realistic hair and other strand-derivative effects
* mental ray 3.4
* faster final gathering performance
* double precision computation for ray tracing
* fast rasterization for first-generation rays
* tighter integration with 3ds max shadow maps
* satellites: freely use up to 8 slave CPUs to render an image using distributed bucket rendering
* Autodesk VIZ
* The very latest technologies from Autodesk VIZ 2006
* Radiosity Adaptive Subdivision
* batch render
* UVW mapping improvement - support real-world measurement
* sweep modifier
* Scene State
* Autodesk Revit File Link
* Autodesk Inventor Interoperability
* DWF export
Prices available at Motion Media: http://www.motionmedia.com/
