The Target Weld and Bridge poly functions also now perform better with these options enabled. These options replace the legacy Ignore Backfacing toggle. Hence, making it easier to select visible components only and preventing you from unintentionally selecting components that are occluded from view.

Editable Poly and the Edit Poly modifier gain two new Optional Culling selection filters, Backface and Ignore Occluded, allow the user to select the components (vertices, edges, polygons) that are visible in their view.

This enables artists to fill gaps along the mirror axis in models with gap geometry.

The updated Symmetry modifier now has the ability to adjust the weld threshold used to merge vertices along the cutting plane above or below the 0.01-unit default threshold.

These include Skin, Path Deform, Bend, FFD (all types), Mirror, Noise, Skew, Taper, Twist, Affect Region, Linked Xform, Melt, Skinwrap Patch, Spherify, and Surf Wrap.

Modifiers the perform a mesh deformation operation and use Explicit normals have seen a performance boost of 2 to 4 times.

The Smooth modifier has been updated so that it now clears all Normals and Smoothing Group data when it is applied to an object (or a selection).

Restitching of intersection operations has also been improved. According to the documentation, meshing operations are now much faster when merging or cutting into geometry. In previous releases, there were slowdowns when performing a “cut through” on models with many faces and vertices with Smart Extrude.

Performance improvements to Smart Extrude.

As always, this may not be the full picture and this post will be updated once the release is official, until then the features announced in the documentation include: Autodesk has updated its online documentation to reveal some of the features of 3ds Max 2022 Update 1.

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