The default camera in 3ds max has been little changed since the program hit the market and it's long past its use by date for professional renderings. Many of the settings are compromises between a digital sensor and a film frame. We need to be able to manage and treat the 3ds camera camera as a real camera rather than the compromised camera it currently represents.

I believe Oleg from Orbaz is working on PFLOW 2.0 A multithreaded version with other updates. Lets get inside Max please!

improve the nurbs as Power NURBS

consolidate all e poly functions: why is edit poly different from editable poly and why are their hot keys different!? Add crease function to editable poly, etc. Give mesh the same options as poly: why can't I select border in mesh? The command panels should be identical, too.

Please make 3DS Max even MORE interoperable with AutoCAD and Maya! (Or pls make Maya even more interoperable w AutoCAD and 3DS Max!) fbx format is great, but still not 100%. Film The departments of Art and Pre Vis get closer with every production. It'd save so much time and angst if our files just shared perfectly.

(INCLUDING THE EXPERIMENTAL ONES)

I'd love to see more tools created to aid hard surface modeling.

The Loop Tool commands are great for modeling (Straight/Curve etc) but the constraints don't work on them (Edge/Face etc). I'd like to see all constraints work for these and for anything else when possible.

I've explained it in more detail here:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74939

-Have you ever tried Google SketchUp?
-How fast you can output your idea not just only hand-sketch, but also 3D sketch?
-For edit and Free style, 3dsMax is more power than sketchUp. Isn’t it?
-But for free FAST sketch, SketchUp is much faster than 3ds max with true dimension. Isn’t it?
---So for my idea, Graphic Modelling should contain fast free mode (identical to the way sketchUp does) and exit this mode with editable poly or mesh.

If you are at a frame you should be able to right click in any spinner and choose "add key" or "delete key" without opening the track or curve editor.

Demonstrated in the following video:
http://www.screencast.com/users/im.thatoneguy/folders/Jing/media/53d94e66-9d2a-4bef-ab43-5f39d701ab03

A few additions to Backburner would be greatly appreciated. Here are a few ideas:

1. Ability to flag distributed bucket rendering as a job
2. Some sort of record keeping option for information such as overall render time per user/project, jobs per user/project, average usage etc
3. A basic built in calender, so that multiple users of a renderfarm can easily allocate time slots for jobs. Then allow backburner to manage the initiation of jobs based on those entries

dynamic pivot as in MAYA, no more "working pivot"(IT IS UNUSEFUL).

The UI for max is getting bigger as newer tools become implemented. Some new tools are now in a ribbon browser called "Graphite Modeling Tools" while others are in the old Command Panel. And some old tools like Selection for editable polys are in both locations! Doesn't that seem like a waste?

What is the future User Interface for 3ds Max?

I hope to see less mouse clicks, less icons and a more intuitive way of approaching a 3ds max scene.

Don't make users choose between two nearly identical packages which cost the same price. Viz used to make sense because it was stripped down AND it cost less.

Now we have to decide what we want to give up. The current policy of dividing the product line for marketing reasons is idiotic and not customer-centric.

Just combine both packages into one singular "3ds max". During install you can give us options to not install certain elements, but users should not be forced to choose between these two almost identical product lines.

I would like a MOGRAPH module as Maxon C4D one, for motion graphics procedural animation without scripting skills.
Effectors for cloning, random, springs and other features.

Add soft body dynamics for MassFX. Maybe it will be good if Flex modifier will be upgraded to works with MassFX.