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Keeping you on the cutting edge with Hair & Fur, mental ray 3.4, and Autodesk® VIZ features for design visualization

Coming in April! With 3ds max 7.5, exclusively for 3ds max 7 software subscription members, Discreet further empowers 3D artists who want to raise the bar for their work. Whether it is in feature films or state-of-the-art design visualization, 3ds max 7.5 delivers what artists need.

Release 7.5 will provide new and enhanced functionality in three key areas:

•Hair and Fur—Based on Joe Alter's highly regarded "Shave and a Haircut" solution, Hair and Fur will offer numerous styling and dynamics tools for creating amazingly realistic hair and other strand-derivative effects.

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mental ray 3.4—Delivering numerous optimizations, mental ray 3.4 will include faster final gathering performance, double precision computation for ray tracing and fast rasterization for first-generation rays.

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Autodesk VIZ—With the very latest technologies from Autodesk VIZ, product designers, architects, inventors and others in the design visualization arena will have the advanced modeling, lighting, rendering and animation tools that are exclusive to 3ds max combined with the unique design-oriented functionality of Autodesk VIZ—all in a single package.

Image 1: Image courtesy of Kelcey Privett.
Image 2: Image courtesy of Chen Qingfeng

Discreet Subscription program members will get immediate access to all of the new features in 3ds max 7.5, including Hair & Fur, mental ray 3.4, and VIZ—at no additional cost—the minute they become available. And don't forget, you can download the Cloth Extension and multiple e-learning modules for 3ds max 7 right now!

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