3ds Max 2012 subscription pack announced

some goodies for you:

  • Render passes (State Sets)
  • Adobe After Effects bidirectional interop
  • Node-based pre-compositing UI
  • Layered Photoshop PSD output
  • ActiveShade for iray
  • .Net wrapper for SDK

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/ken/subscription_advantage_pack_2012_adobe_ae_interop_render_passes_activeshade_iray