Some ideas for this useful modifier: 1- More performance. 2- Merge all modifiers (FFD 2*2*2, FFD 3*3*3, FFD 4*4*4, FFD(box), FFD(cyl)) in one modifier. 3- Ability to selected control points support by linkedxform modifier like lattice and clusters in Maya. 4- Ability to remove inside control points. 5- Add soft selection for select the control points. 6- Snap supports FFDs control points. 7- Add new default shapes like sphere for FFDs. Show More

Please add keyboard shortcuts to cycle forward and backward through all existing cameras in a scene. This would eliminate the need to go through the outdated and cumbersome menus, which currently require multiple clicks to access each camera. It would be a huge time saver for users and, in my opinion, relatively simple to implement. Additionally, I suggest improving the current camera and light selection menu system. When there are more than 10 cameras, the interface switches to a two-level nested menu, which is inefficient and slows down workflow. Replacing this with a single, unified selection system would provide an immediate sense of ergonomic improvement for all users. Show More

  Unify Modeling tools under the same roof, they are scattered all over the place. Integrate the remaining Ribbon unique special functionalities into Edit/Editable Poly in an upgraded Command Panel. Why is it split? Basically, it is based on Edit Poly, so why confusing new users that there are many more tools than there are.   Also, all these tools should be all added and unified inside their own menu on the menu bar.   A similar thing was done with the Mayas new UV toolkit editor. Packed with features but so tidy organized, with nice iconography and submenus     Show More

If one thing is getting constant attention and refinement from Maya team that is their Graph Editors (Graph, Time, Trax, Dope Sheet Editors). Besides new functionalities the UI style revamp treatment it got in 2017 is one of the best out there along with their new UV toolkit UI. It has proper spacing, proper padding around icons, good layout, icons are beautiful and clean and have the right size. I know the Track View revamp is on the Public Roadmap for  3ds Max  but I really hope this will reflect at the UI style as well and Track view will receive something similar like the Maya counterpart.   Track View Revamp: animators need to view and manipulate the keyframes in an efficient way to be productive. The current Track View dialog is old UI technology, and in order to both improve animator’s efficiency and continue the modernization of the 3ds Max® UI, we are evaluating redoing this tool   Maya Graph Editors   Max Track View Show More

At the moment, native max packing can't be used for anything apart from quick tests and prototypes. It wastes too much space. Preparing UV2 for lightmap is a pain without third-party solutions. Best what I've seen from competition is UVPackMaster (can you buy them please?). It can do pretty much anything you may want from UV packer.   Notable features that are currently missing or lacking in 3dsmax implementation: - coverage percentage is shown - automatic stacking of similar elements and locking existing stacks - filling existing layout with additional elements, say you want to add a bunch of tiny elements into existing unwrap without moving elements that are already there - better grouped distribution, grouped elements can try to stay together, not just be treated as a single shell, but for example fill topmost third of UV space with group 1, middle is group 2 and bottom is group 3. Distribution is not limited to this layered stripes of different groups, it is just a simplest example - separate margin and padding (shell-to-shell and shell-to-border distances can be different) - and most important imho is iterative (heuristic) packing, which will endlessly search for better solution, updating unwrap when better-than-current is found. Combined with its flexibility in general (adjustable precision, allowed rotation angle step etc) it can provide very accurate and tight packing with minimal UV space loss and those are just ones I used. I think it can also pack into UDIMs among other features, but didn't tried it personally.   This part of UnwrapUVW didn't change much for decades, I believe it's about time to give it some TLC. Show More

Holding shift + drag to clone an object is very handy. But we always get this intrusive dialog about (copy, instance,reference, number of copys)  that means a double click.  Its good to have this options at hand, but when you are copying individual objects on specific places can be frustrating.   Proposition: 1- Have an option on the clone dialog to dont appear this dialog anymore for the selected object or his clones.  (so if we select reference and this option, as long as we are shift+drag this object or his references the dialog will not pop up anymore, and we will be creating references).   2-shift+drag will create a popup, but shift+control+drag will just do an instance without any dialog popup. Show More

Hello, I would like to request a feature improvement for 3ds Max. It would be extremely helpful to have the ability to control object visibility per viewport, allowing objects to be hidden in specific viewports (such as Top or Front) while remaining visible in Perspective or Camera views. This functionality would significantly improve workflow efficiency, especially for architectural modeling and documentation, where clean orthographic views are essential without affecting 3D visualization. Thank you for considering this request. Show More

In 3ds max latest versions we cannot pin recent files, could you bring it back Other apps like AutoCAD its still there Show More

AEC Wall creation would need X or Y constraint and angle constraint while creating the wall object, like with Line creation.  Show More

AEC Wall creation would need "create line" in "edit vertex" sub object (like in "edit spline" modifier) to be able to create more wall segments directly instead of having to create a new wall object for any wall which is not contiguous. Show More

I'm aware of the little solid triangle indicator for the material applied to an object. Also, there is search function. but, i rarely get it to work. its bad especially when there are duplicate names for maps and materials and it is case sensitive and fails even if there is a accidental space before or after the name or if the name has multiple words. it would be great if the search function worked even if a part of Material/map name has the keyword.   so, It would be great to have a visual indicator for the Material tree when the object is selected in the viewport. especially when there are hundreds of materials.. maybe a highlighter or a translucent bounding box when we select the object. so that we can straightaway pan/scroll to the concerned material Show More

There has been an inconsistancy with the quickslice tool since it was introduced:   1) It seems to initially 'snap' to horizontal when you use it, but cutting vertically is incredibly difficult, the sensitivity to get it to go in one direction just doesn't work, 2) using snap doesn't work as it should. If you want to snap to start the quickslice on a vertex, you're left to choose a completely unguided direction, 3) it doesn't seem to know when you have finished using quickslice - sometimes the quickslice stays there, and sometimes it disappears. Sometimes it stays there visibly, but it isn't actually there, and disappears when you rotate the camera.     It feels like it was an idea, implemented, but abandoned 50% of the way through, but put in anyway.   In my opinion, SHIFT should snap to a either UP or across by moving the mouse in that direction The axis constraints should also be able to contrain to a direction, until SHIFT is released.   I use quickslice all the time and it is so useful, but it's so limited in it's current form.     Show More

Hi all,   I spend a lot of time fixing dodgy scenes, mine, and sometimes other peoples horrible scenes too. We all do. Does it have to be so difficult? It's basically very repetitive; #1 Delete tens of unused pages of materials from the SME (with sometimes dead networked sub-folder-locations). #2 Labouring through sometimes a whole week of error pop-ups soley upon opening old scene files. #3 Deleting Null Scene Objects, the old fashioned way; menu hide and seek. #4 Re-Finding and relinking bitmaps, proxies, basically everything. #5 Removing unessesary non-malicious gunk code from everywhere including (but not limited to) AutoCAD, SetchUp(Yuk), UE5, STL or Rhino Models, Grasshopper, SketchFab or nasty free models from the internet.  #6 Finding memory leaks, bloated files, massive viewport slowdown, outdated plugins, graphics drivers, DX, .NET? https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Optimizing-the-AutoCAD-drawing-file-Purge-Audit-Recover.html Kind Regards, Show More

  The new UV editor and UV toolkit in Maya was inspired by a cool third-party plugin and this is obvious. It just looks so fresh. Packed with features, carefully organized, tidy, nice submenus, proper spacing, etc. To start with, the 3-side layout UI in Max- top, left, bottom- for buttons needs to be simplified by removing the bottom one and instead using that part only to display info. Not least, the nice iconography in Maya toolkit completes all of these, with ideal size for icons and just enough padding around them. This kind of UI could be used for Edit Poly command panel UI as well when bringing the remaining unique tools from the ribbon here in a unified place.   Maya UV Editor and UV Toolkit   3ds Max UV Editor and Unwrap UVW Modifier   Maya UV Editor Menu Bar and Context (Marking) Menus   Show More

I know here is allready an idea or request for making some modifiers multi-threaded. But I honestly think thats not enough!   Please make EVERYTHING in 3dsmax multi-threaded - NO EXCLUSIONS - this is urgent and shoud have happend long ago!   My personal priority list: 1. MaxScript execution 2. Animation Controllers and Curve/DopeSheet Editors 3. Modifiers 4. PFlow 5. Anything else   If there is something that couldn't be made multi-threaded, kick it out! Show More

Its high time 3DS Max updates its skin modifier. We've not seen any updates in years to improve this modifier which is essential for rigging and skinning within 3DS Max. It would be really gratifying to see an update to bone tools as well since rigging is a bit of a hassle as of now. Besides using CAT rig, we would appreciate improvements to better Controllers, such as facial rig, hand/finger rig, etc. The ability to mirror animations from Left to Right or vice versa would be an awesome addition In the Skin modifier, PAINT WEIGHTS should definitely be improved. At present, when you use the MIRROR MODE, the whole side is mirrored instead of just the selected bone. This is frustrating because sometimes, the SKIN modifier is Instanced between multiple separate objects and when you want to mirror only a specific object's Skin Data, all the other unselected objects also mirror their skin data. Hopefully, the development team revisits these modifiers to make the experience better. Show More

When working in 3ds Max, the viewport is where artists spend most of their time — moving objects, adjusting lights, testing materials, and previewing animations. A smooth viewport experience is crucial, but as scenes get heavier (with high-poly models or high model counts), performance can slow down significantly. Introduce DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) or a similar AI-based upscaling technology directly into the 3ds Max viewport can benefit the respons time for viewport playback and interaction. As references Blender’s new DLSS upscaling and denoising showcased at SIGGRAPH 2025 Show More

Hi,   Much like signing in on an Xbox or Playstation gaming profile, it would be great if your Autodesk profile followed you around from workstation to workstation. In the case of 3DS Max these would be GUI changes, Shortcut keys and other product tweaks.  So if you were in an office hot-desking situation, by simply signing in, the product would be set up how you like it to run, and when you log out it would be ready for the next person to sign in and use as they wanted it to be set up. This could be gradually expanded upon to perhaps one day include other things like plug-in licences, options for project paths and recently used cloud saved file locations. It would only take up a minimal amount of space in cloud storage (Autodesk Vault, Autodesk Docs or BIM 360), and in the case of a user being offline it might be handy to be able to carry around a USB device that contains the above information. A handy wizard dialogue box would pop up and guide you through the process of profile migration, and locations to look for it. This would enable a lot of users of older, perhaps out of support period, Autodesk titles to upgrade to newer versions and perhaps take away some of the pain of migration. Also working from home a few days a week, then office based, or on a users own workstation wouldn't be such a chore. Being a person who works with 3DSMax and other Autodesk titles on numberous workstations and location per week, I feel this is something important to look into. It could be called an 'Autodesk Wallet' (c). 🙂 Best regards, Show More

I'm not sure how many hours I spent reorganizing Max's UI. In total it must be days or weeks. Sometimes it's because Max crashed so hard that everything reset. Other times it's because there is a new version, or maybe it's because Max just feels like watching me redo my whole UI because it's programmed that way or it's evil in some way, I'm not really sure. In any case, I'm getting very tired of making my toolbars again, setting my hotkeys again or making my own Quad menu again (and there are some many other things). Now I hear you think, but you can save a file with the settings in it so it's not a lot of work. Well yes, but just now Max crashed when loading my Quad menu preset and it deleted my preset file with it, so I have to do it yet again. And I'm not even talking about the bugs that are there that makes Max forget certain UI things every time I reboot Max. This has been a problem since Max 2018 and still HAS NOT BEEN FIXED! So, I would greatly appreciate it(!) if there was a way to save the WHOLE UI with everything in it that I changed to ONE file. One file that I can load that fixes everything, no compromise ONE UI file. I have multiple computers and so with this I can just load/sync a central file to all of my work computers. Please make it this and make a lot of people happy! I'm sure I'm not the only one struggling with this. (and please don't take 5 years to implement this) Show More