Image courtesy of Hervé Steff- Meindbender
Highlights
Grass
The Maxwell Render grass generator allows you to quickly create grass on a selected piece of geometry. Designed to offer maximum control over the look of the grass from impeccable detail on close up shots to fast-rendering further away from the camera. Compatible with Maxwell Studio and almost all supported plugins. Please refer to the Grass documentation for more details.
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A new Benchwell test, the official Maxwell Render benchmarking test, has been released, to allow the user test his/her computer's performance under controlled conditions, so that anyone can compare his/her rendering power with other hardware configurations. Now the Benchwell test will be launched directly from the Maxwell menu bar (in the Tools>Run Benchwell menu), and the results could be automatically uploaded to the official Benchwell page, to compare different hardware performances. A new beautiful Benchwell scene has been created by Hervé Steff and Atilla Akin (Tom). For more information, see the Benchwell Test page.
The new Benchwell scene, courtesy of Hervé Steff and Atilla Akin (Tom)
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When you load more than one particle sequence into the same MaxwellMesher object (to be meshed together), you can now give each fluid a distinct look, by using just one multi-layered material. These distinct fluid material layers can even be blended in the transition between two fluids. See the Maxwell Mesher page ("Blend material" section) for more info.
Two fluid sequences loaded with the same MaxwellMesher and using a blend material
Maxwell
Improvements / New features
- Grass generator and primitives added
- Support for grass flat primitive in 3rd party hair systems
- Anamorphic bokeh added
- MXS/MXI file compression
- New 3D vector displacement type for RealFlow displacement
- Support for non-bin particles vastly extended
- Added support for the environment variable "MAXWELL2_LICENSE_PATH" pointing to define the folder where the license.txt file is located through an environment variable
- Support for blending materials for Maxwell Mesher fluid simulations
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