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Open MXS

Open a MXS file generated from the plug-ins or from Studio. You can then set the render and output options from the Render Options panel and click the Render button to start rendering.

Open MXI

Open a MXI file which you can then adjust using Multilight, or add Simulens effects to it, change ISO/Shutter Speed to alter the exposure. 

Save MXI as

This menu option can be used to convert a bitmap to the MXI format for use as an Image emitter in your scenes. For more details, see the Load Image menu option.

Merge MXI

Select several MXI files that were rendered on different computers and merge them together to obtain a higher Sampling Level. This is normally done automatically when using network rendering, but this option can be useful in case you are using computers for rendering which are not connected in network.

Merge MXI Sequence

In certain situations you may have several MXI files (i.e. several frames in an animation sequence) rendered by multiple computers, each with the complete sequence of MXI frames. In this case you may want to merge each frame with the same frame in the other computers to obtain the final sequence. This option allows you to specify all the folders to merge (with its “Add Folder” tool), and each frame will be merged with the same frame in the other folders, obtaining a single, complete sequence.

MXI Batch Processing

This tool allows you to edit a group of MXI files, applying the same modifications to all of them. You can change the ISO, Shutter, Tone Mapping, SimuLens, and Multilight settings. You can also extract the render images and the channels from the MXI files, export the emitters as separated images, and make changes in the emitters intensity (overwriting original files, or not). Simply select the input folder where the MXI files are located, and specify an output folder. You can use the “File Name Filter” to filter the file selection, and use the “View affected files” option to review the MXI files that will be processed.

Resume MXI

Select a MXI file to resume rendering. After specifying a MXI file, the corresponding MXS file will be loaded in Maxwell Render and rendering will resume automatically from where it left off. Please note that the resume render will not work if you have made any changes in the MXS or if the location of the MXS has changed. Please see the How to resume a render section page for more info.

Load Image

Load an image in any of the supported image formats. It can be useful for changing an image file from one format to another. You can convert a bitmap into a an MXI which can then be used as an Image emitter in your scenes. After loading the image you can use the Intensity settings from the Edit panel (MXI section) to change the brightness of the MXI emitter. Brighter settings will make the MXI emit more light. Use the “Save MXI as” menu option to save the image in the MXI format. See the Textured emission (HDR emitter) page for more info. Please note that if your bitmaps are in HDR or EXR format they do not need to be converted to the MXI format ; - you can use these formats directly as Textured Emitters.

Save Image

Save a bitmap of the currently displayed render channel (Render, Alpha channel, Shadow etc). After clicking Save in the dialog, a second menu will appear, allowing you to choose the bit depth. Depending on the format you have chosen in the Save Dialog, you can save in 8, 16 or 32 bit output. Please see the Render Export options Output formats page for more info about the capabilities of each image format.

Preferences

Opens the preferences dialog. Please see the Preferences section further down on this page for more info.

Recent MXS/ Recent MXI

Display a list of the recently opened MXS/ MXI files

Quit

Close Maxwell Render.

Select/Pan

Pan: Click & drag on the render to pan through the render. Select: Revert to the normal cursor behaviour.

Zoom/Rotate

Allows you to zoom and/or rotate the render. Please note that zooming also works with the mouse wheel.

Full size

Makes Maxwell fullscreen, and hides all panels. Keyboard shortcut: F

Show/Hide panels

Hides/unhides all panels. Keyboard shortcut: H

Display RenderWhy is this option here anyway?? Remove it?

Enable/disable the continuous refresh of the render on the display. When disabled, the latest refinements won't be displayed on screen nor saved to disk, interesting when you need to save that image reconstruction time.

Clear Console

Clears all messages in the Console panel.

Channels

Sets the display of a particular channel (Render, Alpha, Fresnel etc). Please note you can also switch the display of channels by hovering your mouse over any of the channel buttons in the main render area. 

Start/Stop

Starts or stops the render process. If you start a render that has already been run once and Maxwell finds the render MXI file, it will ask if you want to re-start or resume the render.

Render via network

Launches a Monitor (or uses the existing Monitor if there is one running on the same machine), and opens the Job Wizard automatically, lining up a new job with the current scene. Of course there must be one Manager and at least one Rendernode running to be able to render in network. Please see ? Network Rendering chapter for more information.