Maximize your productivity and manage your most complex projects. Autodesk 3ds Max 8 offers new features designed to meet the present and future demands of increasingly complex 3D production environments. This latest release of Autodesk 3ds Max 8 provides new and enhanced functionality in four key areas: Character Development: Craft and refine your character animation with advanced rigging tools, motion mixing, and motion retargeting. Advanced Modeling & Texturing: Create realtime shaders inside the 3ds Max viewport with DirectX® and .fx support. Accurately texture a 3D model in less time with our new UV pelt mapping feature. Comprehensive Development Framework: Customize your pipeline and improve workflow with our robust, well-documented SDK. Build solid MAXScripts in less time with our new MAXScript debugger. Efficiently exchange scene and animation data with XML and use the free, downloadable Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer for review and approval collaboration. Complex Data & Asset Management: Share, control, and manage your work-in-progress assets using Asset Tracker and Autodesk® Vault, a full-featured data management and asset

System requirements:

Hardware Intel® Pentium® III or AMD® processor, 500 MHz or higher (dual Intel) XeonTM or dual AMD Athlon® or Opteron® 32-bit system recommended) 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended) 500 MB swap space (2 GB recommended) Graphics card supporting 1024x768x16-bit color with 64 MB RAM OpenGL® and Direct3D® hardware acceleration supported; 3D graphics accelerator 1280x1024x32-bit color with 256 MB RAM recommended Microsoft® Windows®–compliant pointing device (optimized for Microsoft IntelliMouse®) WacomTM Intuos® or similar pressure-sensitive tablet recommended for vertex paint DVD-ROM drive Optional: sound card and speakers, cabling for TCP/IP-compliant network, 3D hardware graphics acceleration, video input and output devices, joystick, MIDI instruments, three-button mouse Software Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2) (recommended) or Home Edition (SP2), or Windows 2000 (SP4) Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 DirectX 9.0c (required), OpenGL (optional)