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Maxwell's Fire feature is accessed through the Maxwell Fire palette. Using Maxwell Fire, it is possible to view changes to materials, lighting, and geometry interactively as you work with the model. This greatly improves the Maxwell workflow, as it removes the need to do many incremental exports and test renders. While Maxwell Fire can be used to render final images, its primary purpose is to provide real-time feedback during scene setup. It is assumed that an MXS file will subsequently be written, and rendered in Maxwell Render. See Fire for more detail.
- Fire Checkbox: Enabling translates the project and starts the render engine. Disabling stops the render and disposes of the temporary scene.
Pause: Stops the current render, but does not empty the render cache. The render will begin again immediately when further changes to the model, lighting, or view are made.- Status Bar: Indicates the status of the current render process. Messages posted here are also copied to the Log.
Save Image: Saves an image of the current Fire rendering to disk, at the resolution specified in Fire Preferences. Snapshots can be made while Fire is rendering, without interrupting it.
Preferences: Invokes Fire global preferences; see below.
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