The scene state management feature accessible provides users a fast way to save different scene conditions with various lighting, camera, material, environment, and object properties that can be restored at any time and rendered to produce numerous interpretations of a model. The user can save and restore scene states with the Manage Scene States dialog.

The 3ds Max SDK exposes the functionality of the Manage Scene States dialog through the ISceneStateManager interface. A singleton object that implements ISceneStateManager can be accessed through the global function GetSceneStateManager().