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http://support.nextlimit.com/display/maxwelldocs/Installation
Licensing
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If you are installing Maxwell in one or few computers, the easiest way to get it correctly licensed is to use the License Info panel (from Maxwell.exe, go to Help>License Info), and paste there your customer licensing information (this customer information is a license text block embedded in the confirmation email you received from our Sales Department after acquiring Maxwell). You simply have to copy and paste that license text in the License Info panel, and Maxwell will automatically create a license.txt file containing your customer info and will store it in your user folder, where it will easily find it (the exact location of the license file is displayed in the popup window if the licensing process went successful, stating “License saved in.....”).
More about licensing Maxwell is described here: Licensing
To license more than one computer, repeat the same procedure on each computer, pasting your same license text block in each License Info panel.
Licensing many computers
In order to license many computers at the same time you can set the license path through an extra MAXWELL3_LICENSE_PATH environment variable. This environment variable (created in the same way as described above) must point to a path where you stored your license.txt file. This file is the one generated by the Maxwell License Info panel described in the paragraph above. So simply license Maxwell on one computer following the described procedure, find the license.txt file that Maxwell generated, and move it to your desired path.
The license path can be a network path (\\mypc\shared\maxwell\license.txt), or if the user has mounted an image it will look like a normal path (z:\maxwell\license.txt).
Additionally the license path can even be overridden by launching Maxwell with the “-licensepath:[path]” command line flag.
Maxwell
Maxwell 3 has, basically, two different license types: Node-Locked and Floating. Node-Locked are designed to be used on one computer only and once activated the license it gets tied to it. On the other hand, Floating licenses are served from one central computer and used from different computers connected to it in the network.
More about licensing Maxwell is described here: Licensing
Network Rendering
The native Maxwell Network System
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To launch Maxwell in command line mode using a node license instead of a full GUI, all that is needed is adding the –node flag to the arguments list.
A note on installing Rendernodes on Linux (X11 and Xvfb)
Due to 3rd part dependencies, Maxwell needs an X11 session running even in nongui mode. However there is a workaround that can be used to run Maxwell on machines with no display hardware and no physical input devices, using Xvfb (virtual framebuffer). More info on how to use Xvfb can be found here: Network FAQ
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Specifically Color MultiLight needs even more memory than intensity MultiLight and should be used only when there is a real need of changing light colors after the render.
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One important tip is to merge lights that you want to be controlled together, by applying the same emitter material to all geometry that you want to control using a single ML slider. This way you can still benefit from ML, but keep the memory usage to a minimum. |
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