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Autodesk has released Service Pack 1 for 3ds Max Design 2010, which you can download here: SP1 It includes a number of fixes that are meant improve overall speed and stability. For me personally, I think the most important one is the Bitmap Pager fix, because there was an issue with this when using bitmaps larger than 1000px x 1000px in size, which is something I quite often need to do.

www.CreativeTools.se Has posted a video showing how V-Ray RT works, on YouTube. V-Ray RT is an interactive rendering system that is based on using CPUs - it does not require any special or expensive graphics cards. Judging by the demo video - it looks incredibly fast!

A what? A Vuvuzela, as used by South African soccer fans. Modelled in 3ds max 2008, rendered with V-Ray 1.5 SP3. You can buy the model here if you want to: ( link ) What's plastic, long, brightly coloured and sounds like an elephant? It's the vuvuzela, the noise-making trumpet of South African football fans, and it's come to symbolise the sport in the country. It's an instrument, but not always a musical one. Describing the atmosphere in a stadium packed with thousands of fans blowing their vuvuzelas is difficult. Up close it's an elephant, sure, but en masse the sound is more like a massive swarm of very angry bees. And when there's action near the goal mouth, those bees go really crazy! ( http://www.southafrica.info/2010/vuvuzela.htm ) Get yours now before the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa!