Autodesk announced today the details of Max 10, now called 3DS Max 2008. New features include viewport optimizations that result in much improved interactivity when handling large scenes, an "artist-friendly modeling workflow", a Scene Explorer that provides a hierarchical view of scene data, Biped enhancements, a new MAXScript ProEditor, interactive viewport previews of shadows (including self-shadowing and up to 64 lights simultaneously) and the Max sun/sky system, etc. Find out more at Autodesk's 3DS Max pages. Also of note, an interesting blog post at The Area. (Note: Keep in mind that more new features usually surface between the official announcement and the final release of the software.)

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