v2.7.2.2
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Requires Maxwell Render 2.7.20 (or greater) and Bonzai3d 3.1 (or greater). |
v 2.7.2.2
Changes (from v 2.5.3.1)
- Interactive Preview
- Added Maxwell Fire support for real-time previewing views, lights, materials and objects.
- Possible to store image ‘snapshots’ of the preview as it is rendering.
- Preview window options: fixed sized 1:1 ratio, and fixed sized 2:1 ratio
- Extensions
- Added Maxwell Grass support.
- Materials
- New system for updating 'Shaded' Renderer texture maps to match MXMs.
- Added texture map adjustments (saturation, contrast, interpolation, etc.) for auto-translated Bonzai3d materials.
- Autotranslated materials can now map the alpha channel of the color map to MXM roughness or bump.
- Autotranslated materials can now be exported as MXMs for further editing
- Material ID color for auto-translated materials can now be explicitly set.
- Resource Manager now heals referenced MXM paths as soon as material is selected in Material Parameters palette.
- Resource Manager can now automatically search for missing bitmaps referenced by autotranslated materials, instead of relying on project-embedded bitmap export
- Scene Material Overide option.
- New Autotranslate Material Hints:
- Emitter
- Realistic Match
- Anodized Aluminum
- Industrial Coating (automotive paint; powder coat)
- Rubber
- Simple Subsurface Scattering
- Ability to set all preview render thumbnails to the MXED embedded thumbnail. Useful when opening formZ 6 files (which do not store thumbnails) for the first time.
- Maxwell materials can now be previewed in the Materials Parameters palette using Fire. Option remains to use the MXM preview embedded by MXED, if preferred.
- Image
- Normals and Position channel support
- File handling
- Dramatically faster export from Bonzai3d to Maxwell Scene.
- Added Resource Manager which automatically detects and filepath-corrects any missing dependencies (IES, MXMs, HDRs, images, etc.). Makes moving projects between workstations and using resource servers easy.
- New Workstation Transfer and Package for Renderfarm commands replace the legacy pack-and-go functionality.
- Interface
- Improved Render Options dialog/palette organized into five new tabs.
- Growl support (OSX only).
- Added console Log to diagnose problems and evaluate scene performance.
- New Forum command takes you to the user support forum, and provides vital system information for including with your post.
- New Maxwell Documentation and Plugin Documentation commands take you directly to the online documentation.
- Lights
- 2-color gradient Sky Dome now supported.
- Cameras
- New Focus Camera command focuses the camera on the plane of selected entities, without changing the view cropping.
- General
- Separate Maxwell Attributes plugin eliminated; functionality now included in the main Maxwell plugin.