3ds max 8 is your solution for developing:

Games
Push the limits. Create breakthrough next-generation games with Autodesk 3ds Max software.

Film & TV Effects
Blow them away. Create stunning results without sacrificing your schedule or quality.

Design Visualization
Render them speechless. Impress your clients and sell your design.

Education
Reach their creative potential. Teach the high-demand 3D skills required by leading games and visual effects companies.

NEW! Features of Version 8 include:
Create your own reality.
Manage challenging creative projects. Achieve better results in less time. Autodesk® 3ds Max® 8 software delivers flexible, state-of-the-art, productive tools designed for 3D artists in many industries—game development, design visualization, and visual effects.
Expanding an already robust toolset, 3ds Max 8 provides new and enhanced functionality in areas of character development, asset management, and scripting tools.

Animation
Mix, edit, and transition motions from any 3ds Max animation. Import standard motion capture formats directly to your character rig. Use our new open file format based on XML to write motion files from custom tools and bring them into 3ds Max. Develop photorealistic characters with our improved character development features, cloth and hair simulation tools, award-winning Reactor® physics system, and particle flow.

Modeling
Extensive, industry-best polygon tools for low- or high-resolution modeling. New, superior polygon modeling tools accelerate the process of adding detail to geometry. Use our fast, unique Edit Poly approach to create everything from simple to complex models.

UV Mapping Tools
Control unfolding of UV seams with pelt mapping. Create a flat, unified map for texturing your objects by stretching out UVW coordinates. Relax UVs and remove distortion by accurately matching UVs to object geometry. Save tremendous amounts of time and hours of work since seams are exactly where they should be and rarely—if ever—need adjusting afterwards.

Skinning
Skin anything from low polygon, high-quality game meshes to the most dense of visual effects models. Vertices are now assigned to a bone by default to prevent unwanted stretching and minimize the need to edit envelopes.

Maxscript Scripting Language
Build solid Maxscripts in less time with our new Maxscript debugger. Add custom functionality into tools with full control over the user interface. Use this object-oriented scripting language to create scripts to extend your 3ds Max toolset, or to optimize your workflow throughout your pipeline.

List of Free Plug-in includes:

• Cebas FinalToon 1.0
• Digimation Bones Pro 3 for Max 6
• Digimation Clay Studio Pro full
• Digimation Diffractor full
• Digimation Digipeople Full
• Digimation F-Edge For Max6
• Digimation Grow 2.2a
• Digimation LumeTools 1.0
• Digimation Particle Tools Full
• Digimation QuickDiret 1.5.3
• Digimation RubberTools
• Digimation Seascape Full
• Digimation The Essential Textures
• Particle ILLUSION 3.01A
• Particle Studio ForMax 6.0
• RealFlow2.5 Complet
• Realviz Stitcher 4.0
• Splutterfish Brazil 1.2.21With Tutorials
• Splutterfish Brazil 1.2.52 for 3ds max6
• Turbo Squid Clothfx 1.26
• 3dAliens Glu3D 1.3.08
• 3dsmax7 service pak 1
• Animal Logic Maxman v1.8
• Archvision RPC Max7
• Blur studio pack
• Brazil RS 1.2.53 for max7.0
• Cebas Pyrocluster 3.0
• Chaos Group Vray 1.46.10.70
• Digimation Lightning 1.12
• Digimation Phoenix 1.5
• Digimation Speedtree 3.01
• Electric Rain Swift3DMAX 2.041 CT
• Ephere Ornatrix 1.0
• Objects& models collection
• Vehicle Simulator 1.5 Car & Truck Edition R7
• backburner