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The plugin supports several Maxwell extensions, which generate render elements at render time:

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Extension

Description

Maxwell Grass

Accessed via the Maxwell Grass window, this extension produces grass blades on geometry.

Maxwell Sea

Accessed via the Maxwell Sea window, this extension produces a sea surface, using Next Limit RealFlow technology.

Maxwell Volumetric

Accessed via the Maxwell Volumetric window, this extension produces a region containing participating media.

Maxwell Scatter

Accessed via the Maxwell Scatter window, this extension scatters instances of an MXS file over a surface.

All of these extensions are created by assigning data to a SketchUp group. Their respective windows track the active selection, with changes made being applied to all currently-selected groups. At the top of the windows you will find an item named Selection, which indicates how many groups are selected, as well as the most recently selected group:

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In this example, there are three groups selected, with the most recently selected one being named "Plane". The grass blades will be applied to all the objects in the group (if this was the Scatter extension, all the MXS instances would be distributed over the objects in the group). Oftentimes, groups have not yet been named, in which case, this selection would appear as:

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