Renovation
Those that know me will know I’ve been renovating a house for the past year, and this week has brought an end to it. So i now managae to get my weekends back - well apart from all the 3d work I need to catch up on, of course…. So that means this newsletter theme is ‘Renovation.’
And just for the record, I hate silicone sealant and glossing paint…... oh, and filing cracks, and dusting, and sawing, and nailing, and hammering, and insulating, and bolting and…........
House keeping
First off, please take this opportunity to ensure your graphics card drivers are up to date - take 5 minutes out of your schedule, and ensure your machine is happy. Drivers will often be updated by the providers, ensuring you get the best possible user experience from the professional graphics card you own. As software is released these drivers will be optimized for them, for example the major providers will often have special drivers for 3ds Max/Design. As a general rule, I would recommend you do not use the driver beta versions. Often the graphics card information, can be found by right clicking on your desktop wallpaper, and navigating to Properties > Settings, and making a note of the card model displayed. If your running a laptop, you may need to check the laptop manufacturers website directly, to ensure compatibility. You can also find this inside of 3ds Max/Design 2009+ by clicking on the ‘Help’ menu header, and navigating to ‘Diagnose video hardware.’
To download the most up-to-date drivers then select the relevant icon below -
AMD/ATI card? - click here
NVIDIA card? - click here
The system requirements for 3ds Max/Design can be found here.
The ‘qualified hardware’ for 3ds Max/Design can be found via this link. This hardware is tested to ensure compatibility with the features you’ve come to rely on.
To learn more about graphics hardware compatibility please click here.
Design Icon
Take the ‘M&E’ icon test! Do you know which Autodesk Media & Entertainment (M&E) product these icons are for? To find out the answer, hover over the icon to be taken to the web page link. Hopefully the first one is easy…. 
‘BoB’ (the builder)
The latest ‘Best of the Best’ showreel is live on The-Area. This one is the best one yet….. go find the pop corn and enjoy. Click here to view.
f/x
finalF/X Bundle 1.5 is out for 3ds Max/Design 2010. finalF/X Bundle is made out of a collection of powerful plug-ins for 3ds Max. Each one of these plugins is now 3ds Max 2010 compatible. For more information on finalF/X, click here.
For more information on finalDOF click here
For more information on finalFlares click here
For more information on pyrocluster 3.5 click here
The official info is…...“3ds Max 2010 updates for finalF/X products are a free download and can be acquired by registered users at the cebas shop. If you already have an account you can simply go to the My Account section of the cebas shop and then go to My Downloads to get the update.
If you didn’t purchase finalF/X 1.5 directly from the cebas shop, you will need to create an account and then click the Register Me button in the My Downloads section. Within 24 hours, you will have all updates and downloads available to you for all of your cebas products. Please be aware that all fixes are included within this latest version of the software and you do NOT need to install all of the patches in order to become current. Simply installing the new build will give you all of the updates, fixes and enhancements.”
More Time
This script adds some functionality to the existing 3ds Max/Design timeline.. Haven’t had chance to test it myself, but looks promising. Cheers to Paulo Kiefe for this link.
To download from scriptspot.com, then click here.
To view the tutorial videos, click here.
Power Extensions
The guys over at Npower have added some interesting artist of the month interviews. (Thanks to Eric Pinkel for sharing these.) If you are not aware of Npower, then have a look at the inbuilt ProBoolens and ProCutter. In 3ds Max and Design. It’s thanks to these guys you have Booleans which work To view the two interviews, then click on the relevant name below.
Kevin Cimini - view article
Julian foster - view article
Booked
This online magazine has some interesting reads on architecture from across the pond. Packed with some stunning visuals from the likes of Dbox, CrystalCG, Tangram3ds, 3d-core and Spine3d.
There is also an interview with CrystalCG on some of their latest projects. To view the issue online, click here.
The skys the limit
E-on Software has released Personal Learning Editions (PLE) of its 3D landscape creation tools for creative pros, Vue 7.5 xStream, Vue 7.5 Infinite and Ozone 4.0. For more info, click here.
The Vue 7.5 PLE can be downloaded from here. Ozone 4.0 PLE is here.
Support Round-Up
The application fails to start up properly after installation - View article…
The application will not launch properly as a stand-alone license - View article…
3ds Max 2010 Biped Update - View article…
Material assignments lost when reloading filelinked DWG file - View article…
Hotfix - Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 - Activation Hotfix - View article…
As always Happy Max’ing…
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