Any idea when the 2026 version plugin is going to be released? Stuck on 2025 right now, and just noticed that the 5.6 version of the plugin has dropped (without a named 3DS Max version). 2026 has been out since March, the only part of our pipeline we’re waiting on right now is Unreal Datasmith.
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Nothing? Okay. Well. At this point we may as well make the move to USD, because Max has the new plugin for it and Epic are clearly leaving this as a super low priority. 2026 has been out since March, there’s no details on what versions the 5.6 plugin is compatible with, and I don’t want to move the whole thing to a new Unreal version on someone else’s say-so. At least with USD we won’t be waiting months for a single program to catch up.
- work is done it should be released with 5.6.0 version in a week or couple of weeks
- I also noticed no version were mentioned on the plugin website, I will report that to the team, thank you for pointing it out
- The team is reorganizing so plugins release are not locked to release with UE releases anymore, it should help by reducing delays in the future. That process is not yet fully operational
- USD or glTF can be good alternative to transfer model between Max and UE.
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Thanks for the update Flavien. Much appreciated.
USD isn’t an ideal solution. We can’t push changes to Unreal as quickly as with Datasmith, which is why Datasmith. But thank you for the updates on the changes.