Max 2009 and 3ds Max Design 2009

Congratulations we have twins. This morning, Autodesk announces the birth of two versions 3ds Max 2009 and 3ds Max Design 2009 . These twin applications will share the same binary (DNA), either then small differences , they would be identical. The main defense would be differences into interface and precepts that will be geared towards the target industry (Design Visualizations will be the design version and Gaming and Media & Entertainment would be the regular Max). Except for a couple of tools, the tool sets are going to be identical. The big difference would be that Max 2009 would have the SDK included for users that need to write their own plug-ins, and Max Design will have a new Lighting analysis tool which will have values in the graphic representation (an answer to the many requests of some of our local users).
There are many new tools and improvements throughout the application from new lighting tools, exciting new material libraries and material tools animation and Biped tools ,many improvements to Mental Ray (including Proxy Object), a much tighter connection to Revit 2009, and many more (I will share them all with you as soon as it is legally possible).
These news will be accompanied with more news of improvements in other M&E applications especially for subscription users. All of which you can find here in the next few weeks, as they are released for publication