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If you often use the filtered 3D view modes of ArchiCAD, turns turn this check box ON!

 

Smoothing Angle

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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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This setting is only useful in case of animation export. ArchiCAD animation features are quite limited, so usually the geometry doesn't change between the frames ( only the camera position or the environment)sun settings. It means you can save a lot of memory on your drive and a lot of export time if you export geometry only for the first frame, and for the other frames you only reference this geometry (via Maxwell Proxy object). We recommend to keep this flag ON!

 

FIRE tab

Main You can set the main render parameters for the FIRE mode.

Time, Sampling Level and Num. Threads are similar parameters what we have in normal render mode, with . With Quality you can set the actual resolution at which the interactive engine renders (higher value means better quality but slower preview).


Material Preview tab

Main You can set the main render parameters for the Maxwell material preview.

Time (s)

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Sampling Level

 

Texture Folders tab

You can add five custom folders to look for missing texture files  (texture files which are not placed in the location they were in when they were used to create MXM material). You can pick the folders using a dialog by clicking on the “...” buttons.

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