Maxwell Features

Componenti

1. The core render application
2. Plug-ins to the most popular 3D and CAD applications. For a complete overview, see below
3. MXED: the Maxwell Render Material editor. A versatile Material Editor with powerful, physically correct materials.
4. Maxwell Studio: A sophisticated scene editor with a full 3D environment, offering an alternative workflow to work with 3D applications that do now have a Maxwell plug-in

Peculiarità

1. Physically correct
2. Unbiased
3. Multilight™
   1. Real time interactive emitters, Sky and HDRIs with key frame
   2. Animated intensities and colors
4. Advanced Physical Sky system
   1. Aerosols
   2. Pre-sets
   3. Real-life parameters
   4. Sky to HDRI conversion
5. Multilight™ controllable
6. Sky Dome
7. HDR/ MXI environment system
   1. Multi-channel control
   2. Multilight™ controllable
8. Advanced illumination system
   1. Color + Luminance emitters
   2. Temperature emitters (Kelvin)
   3. HDR/MXI emitters
   4. Luminary pre-sets
   5. Real-life units
   6. IES and EULUMDAT support
   7. Multilight™ controllable
9. Instances
10. Motion blur
11. Resume render
12. Render channels
13. Color spaces
    1. sRGB, Adobe98, Apple, PAL, NTSC
14. Render layers
15. 32 Bits output
    1. EXR, TIFF, HDR, MXI
16. Hidden objects
17. Compatible with RealFlow

Caratteristiche dei materiali

1. Stacked Layers
   1. Stack layers on top of each other
   2. Create extremely complex materials
   3. Layer blending (Normal, Additive)
   4. Weight mapping
2. Subsurface Scattering
3. ThinSSS
4. Fresnel simulation
5. Spectral dispersion
6. Advanced absorption and transmittance
   1. With attenuation distance
   2. Mapped (smooth, color)
   3. Clipped (explicit, black & white)
7. Advanced anisotropy
8. Matte material
9. Bump and normal mapping
10. Complex IOR files
11. Coating layers
    1. Thin film interference/ iridescence
    2. Thickness mapping
12. Emission layers (composite emitters)

Caratteristiche della Camera

1. SimuLens™
   1. Diffraction
   2. Lens Scattering
   3. Vignetting
2. Shift Lens
3. Polygonal/ Circular diaphragm
4. Shutter speed
5. Focal length
6. F-Stop
7. Depth of Field (DOF)
8. Auto exposure
9. Z-clip planes

Caratteristiche Networking

1. Hybrid network support
   1. Windows 32, Windows 64, Mac OSX and Linux 64.
2. Full monitoring
3. Auto-detect RenderNodes
4. Cooperative/ independent job modes
5. Batch rendering/ Render queue
6. Priority control
7. Scripting

Plug-ins

All available plug-ins are compatible with the latest version of Maxwell Render. The plug-ins have their own specific user guides, available with the plug-in installations.

• Plug-ins supported by Next Limit Technologies & Plug-ins supported by third parties

Note: for all other applications (AutoCAD, Revit, Blender, etc.) it is possible to bring geometry in one of the supported file formats into Studio. See below.

Maxwell Studio

1. Flexible scene editor as an alternative workflow option:
   1. Import objects
   2. Supported file formats: MXS, OBJ, STL, PLY, LWO, XC2, 3DS, DXF, FBX, DAE.
   3. Set up cameras
   4. Apply materials
   5. Set up sky and lights
   6. Send to render
2. Hierarchy support
3. Flexible and customizable UI
4. Real time OpenGL previews
5. Sky/Sky Dome
6. Environment
7. DOF indicator
8. Real time compass/ sun position
9. Material Editor
10. Material wizards
11. Material browser
12. MXM gallery integration
13. Orthographic rendering
14. UV mapping tools
15. Google™ Earth KML Markup support
16. Export OBJ option

Contenuti addizionali

The following additional contents are included with the purchase of a Standard license of Maxwell Render

1. The Maxwell Render manual
2. Access to 11 plug-ins, free of charge
3. A free pack of Dosch Design HDRIs
4. A free pack of Erco IES lights
5. Access to the Maxwell Render Resources website: http://resources.maxwellrender.com
6. Access to the Maxwell Render tutorial website: http://think.maxwellrender.com
7. Free maintenance and basic technical support for 12 months from the first purchase
8. The Maxwell Render SDK