Render by Mihai Illuta
Main Features
- Full support to spotlights, fully controllable new emitters workflow. More information here.
- Extra Sampling feature, that allows to distribute different Sampling Level values in different parts of the image, saving a huge amount of time. More information here.
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Maxwell
- Improvements in preprocess and voxelization time
- Fixed potential crash with blocked emitters
- Fixed blocked emitters were not working with references
- Fixed objects could disappear or show invalid transformations in FIRE in some extreme scenarios
- Support for hair with tip radius greater than root radius
- Fixed crash deleting instances with excluded lights
- Change in multilight sliders range for IBL
- Fixed SSS brightness in some cases, with IBL
- Fixed token %mwchannel% was not working properly
- Hair material dependencies issues fixed
- Better support for blade normals in Grass primitives
- Improved support for IES and EULUMDAT files with lines longer than 256 characters
- Fixed instances of references with multiple objects were only instancing first element:
- Fixed preview window was ignoring camera response if multilight enabled
- Added new command line flag -affinity [auto/manual] to override thread affinity (true by default, Maxwell overrides thread affinity)
- Fixed root & tip was half of expected in flat and curve grass/hair primitives
- Fixed render failed when grass/hair flat primitive had zero tip with
- Fixed memory leak with procedural textures
Studio
- Fixed GUI issue when having MXM references (the Item shown in the stack properties and the Item selected could get out of sync)
- Fixed GUI issue that allowed to set IES/Spot emitters with Temperature
- Animation tool forced longitude/latitude sun position. Fixed
- Animation tool forced jpg image output. Fixed
- Fixed camera roll angle was wrong when entering negative values
- Fixed RealFlow bin meshes loader was failing in some cases
PyMaxwell
- Fixed crash after running getObjectNames(), scene corruption
- Useless parameter for getNumCustomAlphaChannels() removed
- Fixed crash on getPath() when path is emptyOpenVDB format supported for volumetric rendering. More information here.
- 360º Animation tool in Studio, to easily create turntable and time-lapse animations in Studio in just one click. More information here.
- Camera sensor models, reproducing the color response of many real world camera models. More information here.
- White balance and Tint tone mapping controls of the render. More information here.
- Floating Shadows and Floating Reflections in FIRE. More information here.
- Support for UDIM and other tiled texture formats. More information here.
- Custom Alpha now based on materials as well. More information here.
- New Technology Preview Network System (TP Network). More information here.
- Hide to Camera in Shadow Channel, to get perfect full shadows for compositing, avoiding the 1 pixel border around the shadow without the need to launch an extra for the full shadow. More information here.
- Devignetting can now be negative, for artsy purposes. More information here.
- New output macro to specify the name of the channel in the output image file name. More information here.
Improvements
- Improved and simplified licensing procedure
- Improved Single Sided SSS model
- Improved performance in scenes with a lot of grass and/or hair
- 50% reduction of memory consumption in volumetrics
- Dramatical improvement in memory usage when loading references
- Dramatical improvement in memory usage and voxelization time in massive scenes with motion blur
- Histogram now can display RGB curves separately
- RealFlow RenderKit updated to the latest version
- Benchwell can be launched now with a command line flag: maxwell.exe -benchwell or maxwell.exe -benchwell:path to write benchwell results to disk
- Optimizations in FIRE to preprocess the scene faster when editing materials
- Fireflies and hot spots in FIRE reduced
- Added support for machines with more than 64 cores in Windows (Windows 7 or higher required)
- Cleaning after rendering in large scenes is much faster now, allows for the next frame in an animation to start quicker
- In Studio: display of references in viewport improved
- In Network: added preference to connect to a specific Manager
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: potential problem loading the volumetric extension in some plugins.
- Fixed: crash in On-the-fly displacement
- Fixed: some artifacts rendering with Thin SSS and multiple BSDFs
- Fixed: some artifacts with transparencies in spheric/cylindrical lenses
- Fixed: crash freeing scenes with instances with motion blur
- Fixed: UV channel with motion blur failing
- Fixed: UV channel with 100% opaque objects
- Fixed: some artifacts with volumetrics in interactive mode
- Fixed: backface material in object with transformation motion blur
- Fixed: some details preprocessing extensions
- Fixed: crash with MXS References and instances
- Fixed: crash with multipoint particles
- Fixed: displacement was not working in referenced materials
- Fixed: some problems with the Gamma on procedural textures
- Fixed: problem in alpha channel with Subsurface scattering if there where opaque objects behind sss objects
- Fixed: some clipping artifacts in FIRE
- Fixed: On-the-fly displacement could show incorrect height in FIRE
- Fixed: Color Multilight + Sun was failing if there were emitters with emission textures
- Fixed: some problems with 32-Bits emission textures
- Fixed: volumetrics were not inheriting parent transformations correctly
- Fixed: some problems with transforms of MXS references with transformed parent
- Fixed: crash in MXS references with double sided materials
- Fixed: display percentage box of particles could go beyond 100
- Fixed: precision issue in daytime parameter
- Fixed: parents with transformation motion blur were losing motion if they were instanced
- Fixed: -mintime command flag was not working in -node mode
- Fixed in Studio: tab order in procedural textures
- Fixed in Studio: clone camera in studio was not cloning some parameters
- Fixed in Studio: resources browser was not listing folders properly. Now it also allows to navigate inside folders double clicking them
- Fixed in Studio: materials with extensions with no bsdfs could not be saved in Standalone mode
- Fixed in Studio: crash cleaning scenes with several references pointing to the same MXS file
- Fixed in Studio: "Convert to Mesh" was not updating the mesh state correctly
- Fixed in Studio: FIRE not working when the viewport was closed
- Fixed in Studio: regression bug that was breaking drag and dropping in some UI elements
- Fixed in Studio OSX: Resource Browser allows selection of network paths
- Fixed in Network: bug closing sockets that could be affecting stability in some cases