User manual MAXWELL RENDER MAXWELL RENDER DATASHEET 2010

[. . . ] Maxwell Render is a recognized standard in architectural visualization, product design, jewelry, film production, scientific research and other high-end rendering markets, and the leader in render quality. KEY BENEFITS TO USERS · QUICKSET-UP Maxwell Render's approach to rendering is based on real-world units and settings, eliminating strange concepts and exhaustive lists of parameters in complicated terminology. For example, the settings of the Maxwell Render camera work and adjust just like the settings of a real camera. Creating and rendering scenes is straightforward, and setup times are extremely low compared to other renderers. Features such as Multilight enable users to edit scenes even after rendering has been completed. [. . . ] MultilightTM allows the user to change intensities of individual lights and multiple scene emitters during and after the rendering process, eliminating the need to run various renders to tweak the lighting set up. A recent addition to this is Color Multilight, which enables users to edit the color of emitters in real time. These features give users infinite possibilities saving numerous different lighting versions of the same scene without rendering it over and over again. The Multilight feature is the first of its kind in a commercial render engine and it is extremely powerful. · Hervé Steff - www. insideko. com Benjamin Brosdau Pure - www. purerender. com · MaxwellMaterials Based on real optical properties, creating unrivaled realism. The Maxwell Material Editor offers real-life parameters that define the materials in a natural and accurate way. It is possible to create Sub-Surface Scattering effects (see below), thin layers, light-emitting materials and advanced stacked materials. A material in Maxwell Render can consist of several components, one stacked above the other much like layers in an image editing application. This makes it very easy and intuitive to create interesting and complex materials, such as a rust material showing through a car paint material, or applying a logo on top of a combination of different materials. A large library with thousands of free, ready-to-use materials is also available. Brick 02 by archSTUDIO Distressed gold frame by jason_maranto 100 windows facade by Luca_StudioAltieri Outdoor table V2 by Luca_StudioAltieri trick by Artem80 · Networking In high-end productions, it is often necessary to distribute a render job over a number of machines in a farm to quickly obtain all the frames needed for a sequence or to calculate a very large image. Maxwell Render's networking capabilities are very powerful (more computers equals more speed in a very linear way), and very flexible - networking is multi-platform allowing a mixture of Windows, Mac and Linux systems to be connected together. The software's wizard system makes setting a network job a straightforward task. With networking, you can tell Maxwell to render the same image on all your computers (cooperative rendering), or each computer can render one frame of an animation. PhysicalSkySystem The Physical Sky system in Maxwell Render uses a novel approach, offering a wide range of real-life and physically correct parameters to control the look of the sky and the subsequent lighting in the scene. Users can create pre-sets of sky settings to quickly load a new sky, or share their pre-sets with other users. It's also possible to save the current sky as an HDR map. · · RealisticCameraModel Maxwell Render simulates a real camera with the associated parameters, such as f-stop, focal length, shutterspeed, etc. By using this type of camera model Maxwell Render can automatically simulate depth of field, natural 3d motion blur, and other effects. With Maxwell Render's camera model, it is very straightforward to match the lighting levels of a real photo with a render. MaxwellDisplacement Displacement is a powerful texture-driven tool that can help users to create real geometric detail on objects on-the-fly while rendering. As opposed to many other displacement solutions currently available in the industry, Maxwell Render offers you its very own, unique displacement technology which is capable of simulating any detail without extra memory consumption. In addition, Maxwell Displacement has very few parameters and is very comfortable to control. [. . . ] An alternative workflow to employ applications that do not have a Maxwell Render plug-in. www. 7-t. co. uk Stack Studios - www. stack-studios. com WORKFLOW . . . viaPlug-ins Platforms supported through plug-ins: 3ds Max (7, 8, 9, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011) VIZ (06, 07, 08) Maya (8, 8. 5, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011) LightWave (8. x and 9. x) Rhino (4 SR5 and 5 X64 WIP) Cinema 4D (9. 6 and up) SolidWorks (2007 s. p. 3. 1, 2008 and 2009) Form Z (6. 1 and up, 6. 6 recommended) SketchUp (6 and 7) ArchiCAD (10, 11, 12 and 13) XSi (5. x, 6. 01 and 7. 01) Modo (302 and 401) Nuke (5 and 6) Photoshop (CS3 and CS4) . . . viaMaxwellStudio Import objects into Maxwell Studio to create, edit and assign materials, set up lights and cameras and send the scene to Maxwell for rendering. Currently supported file formats are . mxs, . 3ds, . dxf, . lwo, . obj, . fbx, . stl, . xc2, . ply and . dae. Other Maxwell Render plug-ins developed and/or availablethroughthirdpartiesinclude: AllPlan solidThinking Houdini SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS & SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Windows(32and64) · · · · · Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008. Linux64 · · · · · · x86_64 distribution with a 2. 6 Kernel and glibc 2. 5 2Ghz Intel® Core® 2, AMD Athlon 64 or better. [. . . ]