3ds Max - Difference between 2016 & 2018

obloquy

Hey, just a quick question - is there much difference between 2016 and 2018? Apart from Arnold and the bugs in 2018, is everything pretty much in the same place as 2016... or have max adopted maya's approach and put things in odd places?

Many thanks

monster

2018.4 is a pretty good release. Biggest difference is the QT UI, and Arnold like you said. Auto Peel is a great addition for Unwrapping, and Motion Paths are great for animation. I had a lot of crashing issues with 2016, so 2018 is better IMO.

obloquy

Thanks monster

PolyHertz

Max 2018 also exposes the Slate material editor to maxscript (took AD long enough...), which opens up a bunch of new possibilities when scripting material related functions.

Eric Chadwick

I saw this today, might give you more insight.
https://www.autodesk.eu/products/3ds-max/compare

spacefrog

3ds Max 2016 misses some very big performance improvements too that where introduced in the later versions

gandhics

That's big jump.

- Arnold Renderer

- BiFrost Liquid

- Spline Tools

- VIewport is a lot faster. I mean really a lot

  http://cganimator.com/3ds-max-2017-fastest-3ds-max-ever/

- Sub-Object manipulation i a lot faster.

- UV Editor is faster. New Packing, New Peeling

- TrackView speed up. New keytools and features

- MCG has many updates and easier.

- MotionPath

- DataChannel modifier

- New Boolean

- ART Renderer

- Physical Material

- MultiTile Map(UDIM)

- BlendedBoxMap

- Animation Presets

- Big Python update. pymxs. python.import

- Alembic updates

- StateSet updates

- Scene Explorer updates

- New Qt UI/Docking

- 3dsMaxbatch

- 3dsMax Interactive

- many other small updates

- A lot of bug fixes - 1000+