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From here you can control the basic render settings such as specify the output, render time, sampling level etc. Please see the Render Options page for the Maxwell Render documentation for details on these parameters as they have exactly the same functionality.
Specific settings to the ArchiCAD plugin
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Smoothing Angle: With this parameter you have advanced control about how the plugin exports smooth polygons. If the angle between adjacent polygons is smaller or equal to this angle, they will be smoothed.
Info This parameter doesn't have any effect if you are in "3D Window" Export mode.
Skip Zone elements: Enable or disable the export of Zone type elements.
- Clamp Reflect. 0: Maxwell materials with too high Reflectance 0° color value (close to RGB 255,255,255) can make your image noisy and not realistic. You have this option to automatically clamp the high color values.
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- Radiance multiplier: This parameter is a global multiplier for automatically converted AC materials. In case the AC material has emitter property, plugin multiplies the power of the automatically calculated emitter component with this value.
- Export Light: in In ArchiCAD Lamp objects can have light components. These light components are not geometries, only definitions of virtual light models. Plugin converts these virtual lights to simple geometries for Maxwell with emitter materials applied on them. In case you don't want to export these, just turn off this parameters.
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For details on the Maxwell camera parameters please see the Camera chapter of the Maxwell documentation.
Unique parameters of the plugin
Lens Type: Set the type of the Maxwell camera lens. In default mode "by ArchiCAD" the plugin converts the ArchiCAD camera settings automatically. This is true for parallel and axonometric projections too.
Warning In case of axonometry view please keep in mind that Maxwell can't convert the view in case the spatial axises are not perpendicular or not equally scaled!
In Maxwell V3 it is possible to use other lens types too, you can select the desired type from the drop-down list.
Autofocus: Normally plugin reads the focus distance of the ArchiCAD camera. It can be difficult to set the proper focus distance with the normal ArchiCAD tool, but yiin default plugin usese plugin can set the resolution of the rendered image according to:
- Focus Distance: Manual focus distance of the exported ArchiCAD camera.
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- Resolution: The plugin can set the resolution of the rendered image according to:
- ArchiCAD 3D window size - choose this one if you want to see exactly the same camera setup what you see inside the 3D window. (To be sure you will see exactly the same, keep the Film fit parameter ON.)
- Render Size - in this mode the output image size comes from the ArchiCAD render size values. You can find the render width and height values at the top of the PhotoRendering Settings dialog below the Engine parameter.
- Film fit: Keep this flag ON if you want the plugin the set the film width/height values automatically (proportional to the render image dimension).
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