Autodesk has updated their website, logos and 2014 lineups

[sandykoufax]

http://www.autodesk.com/

[instinct]

Here are the new Max features for the lazy:

http://www.autodesk.com/products/aut...s-max/features

[jacksc02]

Thanks Instinct... I am lazy

[alexyork]

The Perspective Match and Pan and Zoom tools give me hope that they've really finally fixed the viewport background plate issues that plagued 2013. It's been SUCH a pain since leaving 2012.... I really hope they've sorted it out.

[tiw]

Does anyone else think the perspective match looks a lot like this script? I wonder if it is done by the same person.
http://andklv.narod.ru/tut_mini/mini..._tutorial.html

A lot of the features look interesting but it all depends how they have been implemented.

[lukx]

Why on the screenshots it says 3dsmax 2010 ???

[flino2004]

Maybe they are showing the latest stable version of max

[peterguthrie]

perspective match is just pinched from sketchup isnt it?

[sandykoufax]

Luke, only 'New' are new features of new Max.

http://www.autodesk.com/products/aut...tures.type-new

[bardo]

the zoom and pan with camera views is the same in blender... autodesk won't kill the 3d software market because otherwise they don't have no source to copy features...

[alexyork]

I don't know why AD get criticism for implementing existing tools and techniques in their software. If anything we should get annoyed with them if they don't. Yes in an ideal world AD would be hugely creative and innovative with every release but that's just not the case, so I'm glad they're catching up with the competition in certain areas and absorbing those tools. Max has always been a shell with thousands of plugins and scripts providing the actual usable tools, and that's never going to change. And I'm ok with that, personally.

I just have all my fingers and toes crossed that they've addressed some of the truly major show-stopping bugs and quirky behaviours from 2013, because frankly that release is their worst in many years in that respect and it's really pushed my efficiency down noticeably as a result in certain areas.

[peterguthrie]

Agree with you Alex - It's commendable that they are actually turning their attention to fixing all the annoying things that should have been fixed years ago. Its just crap that it takes a whole new release to do it.

[alexyork]

Agree with you Alex - It's commendable that they are actually turning their attention to fixing all the annoying things that should have been fixed years ago. Its just crap that it takes a whole new release to do it.

Massively. Show-stopping bugs due to changes in the way things are handled should be fixed with PUs, really. We shouldn't be forced to pay for that.

[Donald2B]

AD isn't the only software that follows this philosophy. I have MANY pieces of software that require "maintenance" in order just to get the product updates! Whether we like it or not, this is going to be the new norm. I just had to get a couple pieces back onto maintenance and boy did that leave a mark! O_o

[stevesideas]

It has to be a business model they have adopted. If they released a version that had everything working 99% of the time as us users wanted it would anyone buy the next 2-3 releases unless they contained major new technology ?