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COMPONENTS

  • MAXWELL RENDER

    • THE CORE RENDER application.

  • PLUG-INS

    • Connecting Maxwell Render to the most popular 3D and CAD applications. For a complete overview, see

  • MXED

    • The Maxwell Render Material editor. A versatile Material Editor with powerful, physically based correct materials.

  • MAXWELL STUDIO

    • A sophisticated scene editor with a full 3D environment, offering an alternative workflow to work with 3D applications that do not have a Maxwell plug-in.



GENERAL FEATURES

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  • PHYSICALLY CORRECT

  • UNBIASED

  • MAXWELL FIRE

    • Fast Interactive Rendering
    • Preview scene changes in seconds
    • Integrated in plug-ins and Maxwell Studio

  • Trademark

    MULTILIGHT

    • Adjust in real time emitter intensity and color, Sky and HDRIs.
    • Keyframe animated intensities and colors
    • Adjustments can be made during or/and after the render is finished.

  • ADVANCED PHYSICAL SKY SYSTEM

    • Aerosols
    • Presets
    • Real-life parameters
    • Sky to HDRI conversion
    • Trademark

      MultiLight

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  • SKY DOME

  • HDR/MXI ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM

    • Multi-channel control
    • Trademark

      MultiLight

      controllable

  • ADVANCED ILLUMINATION SYSTEM

    • Color + Luminance emitters
    • Temperature emitters (Kelvin)
    • HDR/ MXI emitters
    • Luminary pre-sets
    • Real-life units
    • IES and EULUMDAT support
    • Trademark

      Multilight

      controllable

  • INSTANCING

  • MOTION BLUR

  • RESUME RENDER

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  • RENDER CHANNELS

  • COLOR SPACES

    • sRGB, Adobe98, Apple, PAL, NTSC

  • RENDER LAYERS

    • 8/16/32 BITS OUTPUT
    • PNG, TGA, JPG, TIFF, JPG2000, MXI, HDR,
      EXR, BMP

  • COMPATIBLE WITH REALFLOW

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MATERIAL FEATURES

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  • STACKED LAYERS

    • Stack layers on top of each other
    • Create extremely complex materials
    • BSDF blending (Normal, Additive)
    • Weight mapping

  • SUBSURFACE SCATTERING

  • THIN SSS

  • FRESNEL SIMULATION

  • SPECTRAL DISPERSION

  • ADVANCED ABSORPTION AND TRANSMITTANCE

    • With attenuation distance
    • Mapped (smooth, color)
    • Clipped (explicit, black & white)
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  • ADVANCED ANISOTROPY

  • MATTE MATERIAL

  • BUMP AND NORMAL MAPPING

  • COMPLEX IOR FILES

  • COATING LAYERS

    • Thin film interference/ iridescence
    • Thickness mapping
    • Emission layers

  • COMPOSITE EMITTERS

  • DISPLACEMENT

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CAMERA FEATURES

  • SIMULENS™

    • Diffraction
    • Lens Scattering
    • Devignetting

  • SHIFT LENS

  • POLYGONAL/ CIRCULAR DIAPHRAGM

  • SHUTTER SPEED

  • FOCAL LENGTH

  • FSTOP

  • DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF)

  • AUTO EXPOSURE

  • Z-CLIP PLANES

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NETWORKING FEATURES

  • HYBRID NETWORK support

    • Windows 32, Windows 64, Mac OSX and Linux 64

  • FULL MONITORING

  • Auto-detect RENDERNODES

  • COOPERATIVE/ ANIMATION/ SINGLE JOB MODES

  • BATCH RENDERING/ RENDER QUEUE

  • PRIORITY CONTROL

  • SCRIPTING

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PLUG-INS


All available plug-ins are compatible with the latest version of Maxwell Render. The plug-ins have their own specific user guides,
available with the plug-in installations.

  • 3D/CAD PLUG-INS SUPPORTED BY NEXT LIMIT TECHNOLOGIES

    • 3ds Max, ArchiCAD, Cinema4D, Form- Z, LightWave, Maya, Modo, Rhino, SketchUp, SolidWorks, Softimage.

  • POST PROCESSING PLUG-INS SUPPORTED BY NEXT LIMIT TECHNOLOGIES

    • After Effects, Nuke, Photoshop

  • PLUG-INS SUPPORTED BY THIRD PARTIES

    • Allplan, SolidThinking

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For all other applications (AutoCAD, Revit, Blender, etc.) it is possible to bring geometry in one of the supported file formats into Maxwell Studio.

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MAXWELL STUDIO

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  • FLEXIBLE SCENE EDITOR as an alternative workflow option.

    • Import objects
    • Supported file formats: MXS, OBJ, STL, PLY, LWO, XC2, 3DS, DXF, FBX, DAE.
    • Set up cameras
    • Apply materials
    • Set up sky and lights
    • Send to render

  • HIERARCHY support.

  • FLEXIBLE AND CUSTOMIZABLE UI

  • REAL TIME OPENGL previews

    • Sky/ Sky Dome
    • Environment
    • DOF indicator

  • MAXWELL FIRE INTEGRATED

    • Preview instantly any changes in your scene
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  • REAL TIME COMPASS/ SUN position

  • MATERIAL EDITOR

  • MATERIAL WIZARDS

  • MATERIAL BROWSER

  • MXM GALLERY integration

  • ORTHOGRAPHIC RENDERING

  • UV MAPPING TOOLS

  • GOOGLE™ EARTH KML MARKUP support

  • EXPORT OBJ option

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ADDITIONAL CONTENT

The following additional contents are included with the purchase of a Standard license of Maxwell Render.

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