In the Preferences Dialog you can set important workflow and export parameters.
Export tab
Export mode
From version 2.7.3 the plugin provides two export modes: "3D Window" and "Independent". Both of them have advantages and disadvantages, it depends on the project which one you have to use.
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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.
Clamp Reflectance 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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Copy textures to export directory
Normally plugin exports only the textures which are in a location not directly readable for the Maxwell Render program (for example images in a compressed ArchiCAD library). With this option you can force the plugin to export all the used textures (it can be useful to have all the scene files at one place).
Use first frame as Reference MXS
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