NEW FEATURES IN MAXWELL 5
The Preferences Panel
On the Menu bar, the Edit>Preferences option allows you to open the Studio Preferences panel, where you can adjust your preferences for notification messages, texture repository paths where Maxwell Render will look if any textures are missing, exporting channels formats, and general issues on its several sections.
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General
The General Preferences tab allows you to change the look of the interface, colors, icons, sky , and manage the temporary files and Auto-save option.
Warnings
In the Notifications section you can set the log verbosity level (varying from None to Debug mode), to display different depths of messages in the Console about the render process.
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.
In normal behavior it is more suitable to leave it to a lower mode, to get a cleaner messages console.
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This section allows you to specify the path search paths for the temporary MXS scene filesmissing textures, IOR files and other dependencies, and the path to the Default MXM material (the material used by default by Maxwell when an object has no material assigned to).
Now Maxwell will search for dependencies in the specified folders and 3 extra subfolder levels. This is very convenient, as you can now just set the base path of your collection of textures and allows for keeping it well organized in categories.
Viewport Rendering
Allows you to control the appearance of the OpenGL render in the viewports: shading mode, colors, grid...
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Options to control the quality of the interactive renderer, both in the Interactive viewport (Maxwell Fire) and in the Material Editor.
Shortcuts
This panel allows you to edit the Studio shortcuts and customize them to fit your needs.
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Editing the shortcuts in Studio preferences