We started shipping 3ds Max/Design 2009 to all subscription customers in all geographies. Now, it might take 2-3 weeks for some of you to receive your own personal copy because of various timing issues. If you really can't wait (and who can?) you can download the 30 day trial (link below). There is a chance this link won't work for some of you, if so, you can always navigate to the 3ds Max product page on Autodesk and select the 30 day trial.
Try it out, and tell me what you think of our new baby! Remember, all babys are beautiful to their mothers. So keep that in mind!
3ds Max/Design 2009 is shipping!
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Posted by Ken Pimentel on 04 Apr, 2008 at 05:03 PMI’m glad you’re enjoying the experience. There is a lot there for a six month release. Anyone on subscription just got a big value drop!
Posted by Hamilton Alves Franco Junior on 03 Apr, 2008 at 07:12 PMWOW!!! It will be difficult to go back to 3ds max 2008!!
Posted by berthunt on 01 Apr, 2008 at 09:33 PMThanks a lot for all the hard work!!!
I look forward to it.
Posted by Ken Pimentel on 01 Apr, 2008 at 02:45 PMVideos are now working, sorry for the delay. We’ve slapped the laggard around who missed this.
Posted by Ken Pimentel on 01 Apr, 2008 at 08:48 AMYes, we discovered this last night and I alerted the people responsible. It’s a top priority to fix - I would assume we’ll have it working within a few hours (or at least when the people on the West Coast wake up). My apologies, it certainly didn’t make me happy to see this…
Posted by loran on 01 Apr, 2008 at 08:45 AMwhy can’t we watch the demo movies? :/
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?id=11007364&siteID=123112
Posted by Ken Pimentel on 31 Mar, 2008 at 07:29 PMYes, you should read the readme before you install. If you turn off the UAC in Vista you should not have any install issues. I don’t know what the issue is with ProMaterials, but if there is one, we’ll want to address it asap.
Posted by joshpurple on 31 Mar, 2008 at 07:22 PMGREAT news and Thank You Ken! 
The (awesome ) user Austin Zago reported this error;
Well, I installed 3ds Max 2009 trial on a 32-bit system with 3ds max 9 sp2 already installed the installation went fine until it said there was a licensing error. I click OK to the diologue box and the installation then went on fine. But when I tried to run 3ds Max 2009 32-bit trial I got the following error: 0xc0000142. I then read the read-me and it said to install 3ds Max 2009 you must have UAC turned off for Vista users. I don’t know if turning of UAC will fix it. 3ds max 9 sp2 works fine, after the unsuccessful 2009.
*josh eyeballs Max 2009 suspiciously * (my Thanks to Austin for the report)
Posted by Ken Pimentel on 31 Mar, 2008 at 06:34 PMNot sure what you mean. If there is a real problem, we’d like to know of it. There are some shared libraries for 32b/64b installs that we have to do for some technical reason. You have to realize we have to support many different install situations.
Sorry you can’t use those features, but we’ve had other customers tell us it is the best release ever. 300,000 users are tough to please in one release. Perhaps you should spend a little more time with the release because not everything is documented as a feature. You might find some nice workflow improvement.
Posted by erka2 on 31 Mar, 2008 at 05:21 PMHeh, looks like there is some kind of “trauma”, some ppl noticed that 32 bit version of 2009’s has ProMaterials lib of 64 bit 3ds max. And ofcourse it doesn’t make max more stable ;)
As for the feature list… looks like mother of 3ds max 2009 was ill while big with child. We should call House to fix everything.
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