Key Features and Benefits

Unified F-Curve Editor
Animators can easily switch between multiple products in the Autodesk® 3ds Max® Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2012 thanks to a new F-Curve Editor that provides a more unified user interface and consistent terminology for editing animation curves. The new curve editor also offers better in-context curve controls, multi-point editing, and the ability to quickly toggle between the controller tree and the curve view.

Stylistic Rendering
Create a variety of non-photorealistic (NPR) effects that simulate artistic styles created by hand, with the new ability to render stylized images in the viewport and with the Quicksilver renderer.

Enhanced FBX File Link
Work in parallel to finish faster, with an enhanced dynamic Autodesk® FBX® asset exchange technology file link that now supports files from a wider range of sources, and can handle animation data. Changes made to the FBX file in MotionBuilder, Mudbox, Softimage, or Autodesk® Maya® software are automatically updated in 3ds Max, helping to reduce errors and eliminating the need for time-consuming file merging.

ProOptimizer Enhancements
Artists can now optimize models faster, more efficiently, and with better results, using the enhanced ProOptimizer feature. It offers normal and UV interpolation, together with the ability to keep high- resolution normals on the low-resolution result.

Improved Start-Up Time and Memory Footprint
Enjoy a faster start-up together with a lower memory footprint, thanks to targeted performance improvements developed as part of the XBR initiative that enable tools to be more intelligently loaded as required.

UI Enhancements
An enhanced user interface (UI) adjusts to dark UI color schemes, performs faster, and offers a more consistent contextual UI location and access to help.

Caddy Improvements
The Caddy in-canvas UI offers better usability, with a more predictable contextual UI location, quicker interaction, and default behavior which does not occlude the artist’s selection.