RayFire

RayFire is a most famous and powerful plugin for 3ds max to create fragment, demolish,destruction, explode

objects. RayFire offer many useful features such as interactive demolition system, cache ( its allow to cache geometry animation in single file), dynamic simulation, image tracing, modifiers ( fragmenter ,clusters, voxels and cracks modifiers) and Bomb helper which is used to create all kind of explosions.

Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2014 Fundamentals

The Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2014 Fundamentals training guide provides a thorough introduction to Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2014 software that will help new users make the most of this sophisticated application, as well as broaden the horizons of existing, self-taught users.

The practices in this training guide are geared towards real-world tasks encountered by the primary users of Autodesk 3ds Max Design: professionals in the Architecture, Interior Design, Civil Engineering, and Product Design industries.

Tutorial on Mental Ray Lighting in 3ds Max

Mental Ray lighting setups for 3D models in a 3ds Max scene is really easy, as you will soon see. In this tutorial we will teach you how step by step. You start with assigning Mental Ray as your default renderer. Use plane objects as a simple environment. Then setup multiple mr Area Spot lights to highlight your model,
and create shadow effects. A useful step is placing a 3ds Max camera in the scene to lock a view onto your model. Finally, test a low resolution render in Mental Ray. Creating a 3ds Max lighting scene is that easy. That is a brief description on this tutorial. Watch the video and written tutorial below for step by step instructions.

Chaos Group Ships V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max

Today’s launch of Chaos Group’s V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max continues the company’s goals of making speed and simplicity accessible to all artists. With significant optimizations to the ray tracing core, Brute Force GI, Progressive Path Tracing, Reflections, Refractions and more are running up to 5x faster; while the new Progressive Production Renderer brings a new era of fast set-ups and quick iterations.
“When your customers come from a variety of industries like architecture, product design, games, and VFX, the feature requests can be fairly diverse,” said Vlado Koylazov, Lead Developer and Chaos Group co-founder. “But speed and simplicity benefit all artists, so they are at the core of 3.0’s development.”

Video tutorial: Touring the User Interface

If you are new to 3ds Max, follow the movies in this Getting Started playlist and learn the basics. Topics include navigating in 3ds max, modeling, animating, texturing and lighting a finished scene. We strongly advise
you to view these movies in sequence, from first to last, before moving to more advanced topics in other playlists. This first movie introduces the user interface of 3ds Max 2011.

Welcome to 3ds max

Welcome to 3ds max

Software Capabilities

3ds max  gives users the ability to construct digital three-dimensional models and, by applying lighting, materials and other features enabled by the program, to create photorealistic renderings and animations of the 3D objects.
Additionally, 3ds max supports the use of other file types that can be in the form of image maps, plug-ins, pre-built models from other programs such as AutoCAD, and rendering images and animations.
The software has a range of applications in industries such as building and industrial design, where accurate digital simulations have widely replaced physical mock-ups for testing and visualization purposes, as well as in the entertainment industry for creating and animating fantasy environments and characters.