Ideas

i am also wondering if there is any way to disable dof for image planes? this would be very useful for quick preview renders with the physical camera dof enabled A VFB background is not affected but very limited with its placement, enviroment back...

There are some assets that comes with a lot of scatter objects and its very frustrating having to convert each one of them to max geometry, as current version doesnt have an option to do it automatically. Sometimes theres a need to convert to geom...

Realistic environmentsTime savingsControlled distributionPerformance optimization

The ability to select one or multiple instances and replace them with a different model. Example use case: you scatter 3D people over a large surface. Then you animate a camera flying through the crowd. You want to select one 3D person and replace...

I believe RenderMan and 1 or 2 other render engines support checkpointing, where there render will periodically save its render progress so if the frame is interupted or stopped, that another render node may be able ton continue where the frame la...

DreamWorks recently unveiled what they call cryptoDeep - cryptomatte support for Deep EXR that supports transparency. This would be incredibly useful for situations with cards with opacity mattes. I believe they said the source code is in the late...