Features for setting the crop
- by pixel values
- make the crop rectangular
- scaling the crop proportionally (and numerically)

" Creat a new view in PF " just the same thing in " Creat a new view in Material Editor "

it kinda explains itself but,

Extruding spline data that comes from design industry is kind of problematic in 3dsmax. Takes too many steps to correct a wrong spline's extrusion direction. I am talking about splines that come from a cad file or created with edge selections while car modeling.

If we could have a direction gizmo that can align
to edges,
to axes, (snap like autogrid)
or from point to point that would be great.

I am sure many polygon modelers will also find good usage for a feature like this.

Rigging, animating and viewing extreme dense meshes in real time in the viewport is now reality with Open SubDiv.
Check it out here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpa%C2%ADge&v=Y-3L9BOTEtw#t=896s

Will be nice to have an option for Modifier to allow you to mask the effect (like a Photoshop mask).
The stack will be like
[Modifier] [M]
When you press M you'll have a volume sel. interface like and it will allow you to adjust the influence field... with option to be in local space, world space or bounding box.

I know you can do it with Volume Sel. -> Modifier, but the mask will work as a mixer for deformer output rather than input, so it will influence any modifier even if it doesn't support selection filtering.

To be able to hide some parts on mesh for "Unwrap UVW" modifier.

They offer many advantages, e.g. can be loaded tile based so you can use very large maps.
Please have a look at the Wavgen plugin which does this and moves the bitmap memory management away from max and allows for rendering with LARGE maps!

Different types of attenuation. Visual feedback from viewports. For example Vortex and Motor are difficult to control.

Ability to divide timeline in 3 layers (position, rotation, scale). Scale timeline and adjusting working region similar to Adobe After Effects.

We need special material that cood shade cloud of particles as single object.
General performances:
- smoothing intersecting regions
- blur edges
- SSS effect
- reflection, refraction, translucency, AO
- take into account density and speed

Project browser like in Dreamweaver or Unity. That is, the project management system, which will keep track for external file manipulation, when you will work with files in that file management dialog.

By that I mean a (fast)Interactive 3D preview of the materials that supports Interactive Rotation/Panning/Zooming in the preview window plus the ability to changes the preview light's position in order to inspect the behavior of the Normal/Bump maps right inside the preview window instead of the scene.

Please add antialiasing feature for Nitrous viewports. (with same functionality as in Direct3D viewports http://goo.gl/JmWfb).
It must be hardware accelerated.

Like the teapot, if you have custom shapes that you use often you can save the primitive to your Standard primitives slot.

Populate is fast and easy to use. But it's too limit to do what we want. Here is the example from Maya's Golaem plugin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fa-R9vJhzkw

please enhance it to much more activities. Populate seem to be too far long to there. Then it will be for either Arch and ME users.

if you are working on a large scene these three functions really get crazy if you decide to navigate and have nothing selected, panning is hard, zooming zooms too much or too little and orbiting without having nothing selected orbits the whole scene sometimes. in Google Sketchup these features are very robust and almost make a user addicted to modeling. problem is max has more features and more suited for modeling so having said that can the two softwares be compared and the navigations be updated? please pretty please...begging and pleading to the autodesk gods that someone hears my cry.