Cycles for Max

Cycles Features

• Based on Blender 2.93
• Unidirectional path-tracing
  • With multiple importance sampling
• Physically-based materials
  • Includes node-based system to create your own shaders
• CUDA- and RTX-accelerated
  • Multi-GPU support
  • Hybrid GPU + CPU support
• Renders layers
  • Including Cryptomatte
• Camera types
  • Perspective
  • Orthographic
  • Panoramic
• HDR environment maps
• Configurable reconstruction filter
• Progressive and tile/bucket rendering
• Procedural 2D/3D textures
• Displacement maps
• Shadow catchers
• Volumetric materials
• Stereoscopic rendering
  • Side-by-side or anaglyph

3ds Max Integration

• Compatible with 3ds Max 2017 to 2023
• Supports all 2-dimensional built-in Texmaps
  • Including OSL maps in 3ds Max 2019+
• Physical Material
  • Support is incomplete, see the manual for details
• Multi/Sub-Object material
• Physical Camera
  • Motion blur
  • Depth-of-field
• Physical Sun and Sky
• Lights
  • Point
  • Spot
  • Directional
• Respects 3ds Max configurable exposure control
• Mesh and particle instancing
• Render options exposed through MAXScript
• ActiveShade support
  • This support is still weak

Shader Editor

• Build complex Cycles shader graphs within 3ds Max
• Export shaders from Blender to 3ds Max
  • Details
• Open-source
  • Shader Editor - GPLv2+
  • Shader Exporter for Blender - GPLv2+