Autodesk's goal was to minimize the effort required by 3rd party developers to migrate their plug-ins to 3ds Max 2009. Only important changes that benefit the robustness and flexibility of the SDK are implemented. The following is a brief summary of the new features and enhancements introduced in 3ds Max 2009 SDK, with links to more information where applicable:
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I remember when working my way through the Product Activation program (entailing the insertion of the Activation Code), the second to last page gave me a warning that registration was incomplete because the registry was unable to be written to because it did not have sufficient User permissions. That self-diagnosis was plainly wrong since I am the system's administrator with full rights to do everything, and I was logged in as such.
Possibly what went wrong is that I was installing Max to Windows 7 rather than Vista (Vista was the latest Windows version at the time that Max 2009 was released) and I did not deactivate UAC as advised for Vista installations. Win 7 is better behaved in this area so I did not think it was necessary. Or possibly it might have something to do with the computer not having an internet connection.
Note that even though the Product Activation program fails to write the necessary Windows registry keys, it does successfully activate the 3ds Max license. Probably Product Activation is barred by default, by Windows UAC, from writing to another program's registry keys, that other program being 3ds Max. Somewhere along the line, I, as Administrator, failed to give it the necessary permissions. (Incidentally, no such permissions are necessary for it to write the same registration info to the Users\Adlm\ folder where you can find it in an XML and HTML file).
Just to reiterate: I am running 3ds Max 2009 64-bit (NOT the Design version), on Windows Professional 64-bit. This information and more is in the jpeg I attached to the very first post in this thread.
We are aware of the issue with the Serial number display with licensed versions of 3ds Max 2009. The issue does not affect the licensing and should not cause issues in usage of the software which has been correctly activated and licensed by the user.
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Anyway, they recently released the newest addition to its 3D arsenal, 3ds Max 2009. This revision is a quick release from its now older sibling 3ds Max 2008, which just came out only six months ago. Like all applications that are getting on in years, it becomes harder and harder to "wow" most hardcore 3D artists. I'll admit that having the tools run faster is awesome, and adding workflow improvements is great... but, like many others, I want a biggie. Secretly (or not so secretly), I'm still waiting for the day when Autodesk announces that Maya and Max will be one... or even that Mudbox is just a standard modifier in 3ds Max. Wouldn't that be awesome?! No more fighting with co-workers about which is better, Max or Maya. No more needing to learn a different application when you go to get a new job somewhere else. Just use the easy interface and great modeling tools of Max while getting the slick animation, scripting and rigging tools of Maya. Now that would be a release. But I digress...
OK, I am a game developer. That means that I use a large, but limited subset of the tools that 3ds Max has to offer. Some years, I have to review a release of 3ds Max that has very little to offer me professionally. Typically, that bugs me a bit, but this year is different. While the mega changes are not here in 3ds Max 2009, the changes that are present are obvious and interesting, even to a humble game developer such as me. The most interesting of the bunch is the collection of lighting and rendering advancements in this package. These will mostly be for those of you doing CG, illustration and visualization... but for the inventive, some of these tools will actually find their way into the game developer's workflow as well. Before going into the mental ray features, which are for the intermediate/advanced user, let's take a moment to dip our toes in with something simple, like the new user navigation tools.
Another TTR speed enhancer is actually just in the main UI itself. This was not totally obvious to me at first, but the awesome Louis Marcoux (application expert at Autodesk), who exposed a lot of cool, deeper features to me, showed me how the UI and "help" have been carefully tuned to be speedier for the rookie and intermediate artists. Advanced artists may not need the menu tweaks as we mostly utilize keyboard shortcuts... but it is all there and it makes a lot of sense. I remember choosing 3ds Studio over other tools back in the mid-1990s because it had an interface that just seemed to make more sense to an artist. It is good to see that folks at Autodesk are still paying attention to that. The "help" part of this comes with the new InfoCenter. This is a simple text field and popup menu, as in your web browser, that allows you to pretty much search for anything... anywhere. It comes pre-hooked to all of the Autodesk help sites but can easily be hooked into your company's help docs or WIKI. For example, at Harmonix we have set up a lot of very specific ways of doing things, all the way down to pure technique like EdgeLoop modeling. I can now hook InfoCenter into my WIKI so that if anyone searches for "Harmonix" or modeling in the InfoCenter... they will get our company docs alongside all of the Autodesk's. It must be capable of mind reading too, since the first time I used it and typed "mental ray" it asked: "Did you mean: METAL?" See... it's like it knows me... I am always thinking of Metal, as in Heavy Metal!
As a game developer, I would not be happy if there were not at least a few things thrown in for me, and there are. For starters, there is the very cool Spline Mapping function, allowing the artist to map a long object simply by placing a spline inside the object and using that as a reference for the UV coordinates. Notice in the accompanying image that there are "Cross Sections" that allow for careful mapping. These are fully adjustable in both form and quantity. Also in mapping; like the render interface, the Pelt Mapping interface has been streamlined for quick and easy use. All iteration options are set aside and the Start Pelt/Start Relax are now continuously running on/off switches. Just click the Start button and when you see results you like, press it again and shut it off. Done.
There is additionally a much more sophisticated import/export tool that, among other things, allows multi-million polygon objects to go to and fro 3ds Max 2009. There is also a convenient template system in the exporter with presets for Autodesk's latest acquisition, Mudbox, as well as ZBrush, among others.
Due to the high price of the commercial version of the program, Autodesk also offers a free student version, which explicitly states that it is to be used for "educational purposes only". The student version has identical features to the full version, but is only for single use and cannot be installed on a network. The student license expires after three years, at which time the user, if they are still a student, may download the latest version, thus renewing the license for another three years.
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