What's New in Autodesk 3ds Max 2025 

What's New in 3ds Max 2025. Nothing!!!!

I think developing 3dsmax is the easiest job ever, all you need to do is to go to work, drink some coffee and come back.

Get rid of stuff from 25 years ago that nobody use like Video Post, Atmospheric Apparatus, etc. Maybe it will open faster.

so, none of my 2024 plug-ins will work in this "new" 2025 just for a couple of insignificant changes... if you are making just this small update is ok, but let us keep using 2024 plug-ins with 2025 max

The Tyflow is the only reason I still use 3ds Max

I can't understand Autodesk development policy. Since years, the whole community has been asking for different development plans. when to see Bifrost in Max, sculpting tools, motion design tools, better Ui arrangement, parametric modeling tools, why we have to wait for these, rather than finding a bettrer software ??? If you just look at the dislike button, you understand how much underwhelming this video is.

Wire parameters... when update Autodesk?

autodesk never disappoints when it comes to disappointing

the only update we need is multi threaded viewport and we get vertex paint...what the fuck

We pay a ton of money yearly and they deliver this? It’s like a joke.

Why doesn't Autodesk just insert Mudbox into 3ds Max like Belnder? It would be much easier to use.

Why is there no progress in the animation department? All the plugins are from fifteen years ago and nothing has changed and it is a pain to work with them

@2:12 why are they zooming in on a real-time viewport playback while talking about Arnold's global light sampling in volumes? Not the best way to represent what's being touted.

I'm myself a 3ds max user but this is disappointing to see 3ds max became wayyyy behind Maya and Blender. Everytime I see an update from 3ds max my expectations became higher but after seeing the videos I just get disappoint. Animation tools are very old and bug are everywhere. Autodesk should focus on 3ds max more. Its like a forgotten child of autodesk

Nothing too exciting here. I'm a little sick of getting jealous of faster updating packages. Please update and integrate the UVW Unwrap editor. It's been basically the same for 20 years.

need better crowd tools, scatter tools, native volume shading of VDB's and view port volumes, faster fluids, better animation tools, updated rigging, faster skinning and deformation tools etc...not just color updates... seems like this is an update to follow the version numbering sequence from 2024 to 2025

Is there any possibilities 3ds Max would have viewport like Eevee, with realtime viewport?

@AutodeskME Are you reading the comments Autodesk? The users are pointing out some serious problems with your development and publishing strategies if you didn't notice.

Christ I don’t think anyone is gunna be updating to this are they?

When can we expect a major update to the rigging and animation tools in 3ds Max? Track View, Animation Layers, Biped in particular? Also, is Maya's Bifrost planned to be integrated into Max?

They killed Softimage XSI for this. 😂

3ds Max updates giving me reason to Change my workflow to blender

Does anyone else remember a good number of years ago Autodesk teased a feature in Biped for secondary animation? (I think they called it inertia at the time) It showed some bipeds on moving platforms with their knees automatically bending as the platform lifted and dropped, along with other secondary animation examples. They said it was "coming soon". (I checked the archives and it's no longer there)

Max to become imbative should have: *A beautiful viewport, integrated with some material that can be used with native vray or corona. * Some tool for sculpt characters, similar to mudbox would be perfect. * Xgen in 3ds Max or as fast as possible. * New xrefs system, compared to Maya's reference editor, never works as it should in Max, exactly for pipeline with riggers and animations. Everything else about Max seems perfect to me, it is stable, I can manage large scenes in it, the interface is simple and effective, its modifier system for modeling is very robust and is one of the program's biggest differences. And several killer plugins it has, Autodesk should buy some of these plugins and including them would be a big leap too. I love 3ds max, for me as I'm also a Maya user, MAx is my favorite, but the competition as a blender is attracting a lot of attention, who knows if I learn it, maybe I'll never go back to Max... I still have hope that Max It will be impressive like years ago at its peak.

any improvements on UV's, can we get little closer to Rizom.

Request to developers, Please add modelling features competitive to any other 3d package software in 3d industry.

When will you make the obvious upgrade to merge mudbox with 3ds max and Maya? Unnecessary small changes like this belong in 2009. You're being run out by blender and cinema 4d with better sculpting tools.

No reason to update from 2024. You suck Autodesk. If you spent more time and money developing software and less time and money on lawyers going after your own customers with audits, you could release better updates.

Another year with ZERO new features for animators. I blame myself for still having any level of expectations.

This looks like the 2024.3 update that never happened. Doesn't look like version 2025 at all! 🤦‍♂

The reference system is one of the most important features that is missing in 3D Max. During animation, unnecessary characters and objects must be removed from the computer memory to increase the frame rate, and one of the advantages of reference files is that when saving the file, the scene is saved with a much smaller size. This is not possible in Max, but it is possible in Maya.

3ds max 2025 is an excellent program, it's a shame that it's too heavy, I believe that if you can create a lighter version it would be a great success, thus giving everyone the opportunity to use 3ds max.

Sorry, but I'm not impressed or happy with these light updates especially when 2024.3 was skipped to get here. And no, I don't care how AD's Max team versions things internally. I'm charged **every year** for this and I didn't get the same amount of deliverables. I spent the same and got less; that's the bottom line I'm paying attention to. To be fair, there have been some very useful updates in the recent years. But this ain't it. Please, do better.

time-tested industry workhorse 💪

We will be waiting for more new features from 3ds max 2025.2

Yeah nothing really exciting for me in 2025 but I forgive them because 2024 was a great release ! ( focusing more on what really count for user : stability, speed optimization, interface latence, a lot of annoying bugs removed. ) The whole color management new features must be exciting for studios and the color conformation pipeline department but from an artist point of view, all this looks like a lot of hassle just to understand how it works, and doesn't look intuitive at all.

I was expecting lots of goodies after the skipping of 2024.3, but this is sorely disappointing. Absolutely nothing worth updating for. Oh well, there's always 2025.2 to look forward to I guess, but I won't be holding my breath.

Please solve the bug where Scene Explorer and Layer Explorer disappear every time I turn on 2024. This bug will never go away from 2021.🤬

Interesting under the hood update with the menus. This has been a good release, but If I have to critique something is that I expect artistic tools improvement in EVERY release, in the end Max is an artistic tool not only improvement for devs please!

Telling my boss we should switch our entire pipeline to Blender starts sounding better every year.

You can't convince me that the Autodesk offices don't look like a scene from Wolf of Wallstreet.

Not even a new chamfer modifier? 😢

Please Revamp and update the CATrig system, such a powerful tool

‼⚠"Did you know that you need to update the Modify menu, especially (Editable Poly) and (Editable Mesh), because there are some issues and slowness when selecting the menu and copying objects? This issue is very old and needs to be addressed. Competing programs have become better with many updates and faster in modeling. I wish I could communicate directly with a developer to explain some of the existing problems that require a fundamental solution. Thank you."‼⚠

looks like a 2024.5 release

No new modelling features why ?

I really hoped they improve CAT or at least fix that annoying ik-fk switch glitch on legs. But they improved some USD export (whatever it is) and added some useless retop methods. Disappointment

This is not a new version. This is just a patch and should be basically 2024.3. It reminds me a bit of the announcement in 3dsmax 2017(I think)? when the main news was moving the "Back" button from the window header to the menu.

3dsmax, you were great, but Blender is now my best friend.

- What's new in 3ds max 2025 ? - Nothing.

ok. you added OpenVDB to boolean and to retopo.. and? Maybe one step more and add filters for VDB? May-be one more step and let it work on gpu as its supposed to work?

1 - 3ds max needs to add smarter UV cutting features, such as edge selection, edge cutting, which could help prevent other edges from being automatically selected so much that the user has to go and deselect edges automatically. moving... Open up needs to be better, learn more about Rizom UV 2 - Retopology needs to learn the useful features of togo gun when doing retopology 3 - For modeling, parts are processed automatically Added: Quad cap, or merging multiple objects, Scale with easily setable parameters, display grid parameters in Viewport that need to be updated so that each time you open Max you don't have to edit from the beginning... To support automatic error finding and automatic network connection, Max needs to have better and faster functions than Maya, Maya is still very bad This problem often causes confusion in complex models, and with other software, it is very difficult to convert it into a 3-way network. Please apply AI to develop the ability to build configurations faster, max is high quality construction software, don't let Blender be at risk. Plug in at max is developed but fragmented, research is needed to come up with Max, giving users many choices when working Thank you for accepting my comments

Its very obvious to me that Autodesk has 0 interest in bring new real deal tools inside 3Ds Max because It has to sell those tools in different products. What Autodesk does is simply improving minor things in what is already there and basics. Do not expect any effort from those guys to make any different. The only reason Autodesk catch up recently with some real new things inside 3Ds Max has a name: Blender. It will be like this until Blender 4.1 or 4.2 comes out with Eevee Next, then Autodesk will kind of do something to avoid more migration, which is happening daily.

You should improve your ribbon from 90ies😂😂😂

Under the sweeping reforms and updates of the Unreal Engine UE5, it is unbelievable that it can still maintain insignificant toothpaste updates, which is beyond words... Sending a large number of users to the other party in vain

Such Progress, Much WOW! ... :-))

flip flop gizmo bug was solve ?

Hum, not worth the update from 2024. Animation in 3dsmax is a bit lagging behind

Nice video. Please add GPU support for Ornatrix... Like in Maya. I know the Ephere developers can't do nothing with this. This depends on you.. We're limited here by 3ds Max's Nitrous Viewport API, which doesn't allow you to access hardware buffers directly which is a requirement for GPU Hair...

What I think is that at most 3, maybe 5 people are working on this program. In order to preserve the error correction requests of old customers, whom they constantly milk, and the features that allow them to shop with other programs, USD etc. They're just doing the job of adding things. They have not prepared a proper training video about the newly added features since 2018. The 3ds Max channel is closed to comments. What more needs to happen for Autodeskin to say we are finishing this program? What a disgrace, they present this as progress. Moreover, they have not prepared a single video lesson about the things they say they have developed since 2018. Nobody other than Autodesk has prepared a single proper training course since 2018, except for architectural visualization. Finish yourself, autodesk, you know. Blender only has 3 years to surpass you, then in 5 years no one will use you anymore. Max will not be developed. If there are errors, that's it to be corrected. This USD was added only because architectural visualization people requested it so that we would not have difficulties in transferring it to Omniverse for fast rendering.

I think the "old" stack modifiers architecture after 30 years must be ported to nodes, more modular more procedural. Also the UI needs an update, currently it's the same 90s graphic.

They are making efforts so that at one time it will be an old and forgotten program. In a drawer. They continue to adjust an absolutely old user interface. It deserves a radical change.

ah yes, the features no one asked for. and of course getting more unstable. crashing in 3 seconds after opening project instead of 4. discontinue it already and relive everyone from misery.

Usd export animation 😍😍😍

⁉why not listen to the community instead of developing things that no one uses. graphical window for multi-core computers and state set upgrades, that's all we need.⁉

You 3ds max should prepare carefully for sculpting and biped animation and then announce it. Look at your you tube views and compare it with blender you tube views. If nothing changes in 2025, you will fail

I hope they change the UI

Awesome work Principal Developer at Autodesk 😂

Such a large studio, with only a few minor updates and even some completely useless features throughout the year, its positioning should not focus on animation

We need a good tracking systems like blender and cinema 4D

It's time to make autodesk blender 2.0 but with the 3dmax interface... 3D max still lags when opening the "game terrain". Fact that the blender works without no lag in scenes like thise... It would be better for the entire 3ds max community.

I don't want to sound ungrateful, because I understand the - which is now appartent - very small Max development team is doing what they can, but it's time to start firing on all cylinders if you don't want the competition to overtake 3dsMax completely. Blender has already overtaken Max at many studios.

احتاج الامر اكثر من 15 سنة عمل جاد وهناك تكاليف ومجهودات كبيرة وعند الإعلان تقومون بتقديم جزء بسيط بطريقة سريعة لدرجة اننا لم نستوعب ما هو الجديد في اصدار 2025 . في هذه الفترة انا فقط احب متابعة آخر التطورات في برامج الثري دي )3d( ,وكنت على امل وضع الاشعة في عارض arnold كما موجود في عارض v- ray

What a disappointment. I cant believe that 3ds Max is still stuck with backward compatibility idea while the rest of industry is moving at unprecedented speed. Just release a 3ds Max with all crap removed from it, if you are so worried, maybe make LTS release for few years with only major features. No one uses a quicksilver , art, post process, ram player and the list goes on. Out of the all the industry, if one company really needs layoffs, its Autodesk. Houdini devs overhauls their features or re write them from .5 to major release and then we have autodesk, pre process is a separate option, congratulations, a seperate drop down is created with an if statement. work done.

I have only one simple and practical suggestion: lay off all employees in the 3dmax development department

shambles as per normal, loads of the core should be rewritten, the QT integration is flaky and c**p as f**k as well, don't get me started on the never updated SME. How about rewriting the menus so they are tabbed like Blender? How about sorting out the joke of the layers and it's fiddly nature. How about sorting out the timeline properly so it shows in seconds and you can skip 1 second at a time. Also whilst we are at it why not retain units properly. Also maybe create a scatter tool which gets updated like Vray scatter.... the EASY list is endless.

yip... moving to Houdini was a great idea.

It is really disappointing that the 2025 version of 3dsMax does not have any relevant news. Just some little technical things.

When will add new Bevel which work through topology, like Smart Extrude or new Inset faces - it will be revolution in modelling! I don’t understand why the administration and developers are delaying this, because the Blender stepping on heels, and attracts the audience of modellers

add this groundbreaking feature: use windows explorer to open files, and not ur horrible file browser

As usual every odd number version update is crap, i'll wait for 2026. More and more i'm thinking about blender.

Render in a Flash! -> Takes 10 fucking seconds to render a 2000s looking CGI that can be rendered in 0.0001 sec in UE with better quality

Interface needs a revamp ,2026 latest ,how many more years of pain....

Seeing this video only confirms that I made the right choice by cancelling our licenses' subscriptions a couple of years ago when Autodesk started raising the prices heavily for no reason and took away the perpetual license option. Looks like we are not missing out on much. Maybe in five years it will be worth it to upgrade from Max 2023. Maybe.

Came here as a former Max user of many years, for the nostalgia........also came from a 'what's new in Houdini' video..... this is a shockingly bad annual release having seen what SideFX just put out.

I'm still on 2017.. 😐

以为会更新一些好的 原来是拉了一坨大的

Still waiting for the biggest MAX EVER 2026.

Is tHis A jOkE

why 3dsmax still looks like a winamp skin from 2002 ?

Every other software on the market: We're hosting a full day event showcasing all the amazing work we've been doing this year to support your wants and needs as developers and our valued customers! Autodesk: Here's a 3minute videos of nothing useful... After a decade of being a Max maxi, I'm really thinking it's time to move over to Blender... Like, why not split your kit into performance products... Games developers don't need half the stuff in here... But we could do with more intuitive tools, better UI, more customization for tools and windows, a trusted plug in marketplace that isn't 2 decades old... Everyone's creaming at you Auto desk to just listen... What's it gonna take?

3ds max is my x-girlfriend, thanks god I shifted to C4d ages ago

Need to learn Blender

Ok, that's it I am moving to Blender.

Its disappointing that the speaker is reading from a script and doesnt sound like she knows the software at all - or maybe its AI - cutting corners either way

Disappointed

3ds Max 2025 is the most embarrassing major update ever.

Thanks for the new 3ds max 2024.3. This has nothing to do with 3ds max 2025 :)

Will "SDF" ever make it to 3dsmax? It's gaining a lot of popularity. Blender especially : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CsycMAyYLOo.html

Wish Autodesk close soon