The core rendering engine offers a complete user interface which is easy to use, flexible and visually attractive. The UI is made of up of different types of panels such as the Render Options panel, the Camera Options panel, the Multilight panel etc. All the panels are dockable so it is easy to customize the interface.
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Menu item | What it does |
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Help | Opens your default web browser to support.nextlimit.com |
What's this? | Allows you to click a parameter and get a small pop-up text explaining what the parameter does. |
License Info | Opens the License Info window where you can see all your current licenses and also add/remove licenses. Please see Licensing section for more info. |
Visit Home page | Opens your default web browser to www.maxwellrender.com |
Resources | Opens your default web browser to support.nextlimit.com/display/resources/Resources+home where you can find different Maxwell Render resources (tools, scenes, models, scripts etc). |
MXM Gallery | Opens your default web browser to resources.maxwellrender.com where you can browse and download over 4000 free Maxwell Render materials. |
Check for updates | Checks if any new updates are available (internet connection required). |
About Maxwell Render | Switches Maxwell Render to "turbo" mode providing a 50x speed increase. Just kidding. Displays the About message including version number. |
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- The different options here are pretty self-explanatory. In this section you can also set where Maxwell Render should save the Render Logs and their verbosity level (varying from None to Debug mode). In case of problems during the render, it is highly recommended to set this parameter to Debug Mode, to get more in-depth information of all the events happening during the render. Set it to a lower mode during normal usage to get cleaner logs.
Paths
- Allows Allows you to set up up to 4 different alternative texture paths, where Maxwell Render will look for missing textures. This is useful to minimize the "missing textures" error when Maxwell Render can't find a texture used in the scene and will not render. . Maxwell will look for missing dependencies three sub-folders deep in the specified folder.
Appearance
- Choose whether scrollbars should be displayed in the UI or not, and which color scheme the UI should have. "Maxwell classic look" is the default dark grey color scheme.
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