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COMPONENTS
MAXWELL RENDERComponents
Maxwell Render
THE CORE RENDER application. Maxwell Render can also be launched from the command line, without displaying the Maxwell GUI. This can be useful for automating certain render tasks, although the scripting capabilities in Maxwell Render offer much greater control and functions to automate jobs. Please see the in-depth Command Line description on the Command Line page.
NETWORK RENDERINGNetwork Rendering
The Maxwell Render™ Network system allows jobs to be sent individually to each machine on the net, rendering animations or single frames. It is also possible to let all machines render the same frame and merge the images that have been created at the end of the rendering process. Other useful functions include grouping nodes for exclusive assignment or displaying an image that is being rendered by a specific node.
PLUGPlug-
INSConnectingins
Currently 15 plug-ins, connecting Maxwell Render to the most popular 3D / CAD and post-production applications. ALL included at no extra charge with every license of Maxwell Render. For a complete overview, see Plug-ins
MXED
The Maxwell Render Material editor. A versatile Material Editor with powerful, physically based correct materials.
MAXWELL STUDIOMaxwell Studio
A sophisticated scene editor with a full 3D environment, offering an alternative workflow to work with 3D applications that do not have a Maxwell plug-in.
GENERAL FEATURES
General features
PHYSICALLY CORRECT
UNBIASED
MAXWELL FIRE
- Fast Interactive Rendering
- Preview scene changes in seconds
- Improved FIRE voxelization
- Integrated in plug-ins and Maxwell Studio
MULTILIGHT™
- Fast GPU-driven Multilight
- Adjust in real time the emitter intensity and color, Sky and HDRIs.
- Keyframe animated intensities and colors
- Adjustments can be made during or/and after the render is finished.
ADVANCED PHYSICAL SKY SYSTEM
- Customizable Sun Radius
- Aerosols
- Presets
- Real-life parameters
- Sky to HDRI conversion
MultiLight™ controllable
HDRI/MXI ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM
- Multi-channel control
- Multilight™ controllable
ADVANCED ILLUMINATION SYSTEM
- Color + Luminance emitters
- Temperature emitters (Kelvin)
- HDR/ MXI emitters
- Luminary
- presets
- Real-life units (watts/efficacy, lumens, candelas)
- IES and EULUMDAT support
- Image projectors
- Blockable emitters
Multilight™ controllable
INSTANCING
REAL 3D
MOTION BLUR
ON-THE-FLY BOOLEANS
RESUME RENDER
PROGRESSIVE RENDERING
- Start the compositing while the render is in progress
- Start the compositing while the render is in progress
RENDER CHANNELS
- Alpha, Z-buffer, Shadows
- , Object ID, Material ID, Roughness, Fresnel
- , Motion Vector, Normals, Position
- , UV
- Custom Alpha channel per object
- Deep compositing support
COLOR SPACES
- sRGB, Adobe98, Apple, PAL, NTSC
- sRGB, Adobe98, Apple, PAL, NTSC
RENDER LAYERS
- 8/16/32 BITS OUTPUT
- PNG, TGA, JPG, TIFF, JPG2000, MXI, HDR,
EXR, BMP
MAXWELL EXTENSIONS
- Maxwell Volumetric
- Constant, Noise and Particle-driven fields
- Pixar Open SubDivision
- Maxwell Grass
- Maxwell Sea
- Maxwell Scatter
- Particle Mesher
- Maxwell Volumetric
REFERENCED OBJECT LOADED ON-THE-FLY
- Hair/Fur
- Hair/Fur
ALEMBIC SUPPORT
MXS REFERENCED OBJECTS
TIGHT COMPATIBILITY WITH REALFLOW
MATERIAL FEATURES
SIMPLIFIED MATERIAL ASSISTANTS
STACKED LAYERS
Material features
- Simplified material assistants
- Stacked layers
- Create extremely complex materials
- BSDF blending
ADVANCED ANISOTROPY
MATTE MATERIAL
BUMP AND NORMAL MAPPING
COMPLEX IOR FILES
COATING LAYERS
- Weight mapping
SUBSURFACE SCATTERING
THIN SSS
FRESNEL SIMULATION
SPECTRAL DISPERSION
ADVANCED ABSORPTION AND TRANSMITTANCE
- With attenuation distance
- Mapped (smooth, color)
- Clipped (explicit, black & white)
- Subsurface scattering
- Thin sss
- Fresnel simulation
- Spectral dispersion
- Advanced absorption and transmittance with attenuation distance
- Procedural textures
- Advanced anisotropy
- Matte material
- Bump and normal mapping
- Complex ior files
- Coating layers
- Thin film interference/ iridescence
- Thickness mapping
- Emission layers
- Composite emitters
- Displacement
DOUBLE-SIDED MATERIALS
PROCEDURAL TEXTURES
- Double-sided materials
Camera features
CAMERA FEATURES
LENSES
Lenses
- Thin film
- Pin hole
- Orthographic
- Spherical and Cylindrical
Simulens™
- Diffraction
- Lens Scattering
- Devignetting
- AA Sharpness setting
- Shift lens
- Polygonal/
SHUTTER SPEED
FOCAL LENGTH
FSTOP
DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF)
AUTO EXPOSURE
Z-CLIP PLANES
NETWORKING FEATURES
HYBRID NETWORK- circular diaphragm
- Shutter speed
- Focal length
- Fstop
- Depth of field (dof)
- Auto exposure
- Z-clip planes
Network Rendering features
- Hybrid network support
- Windows 32,
- windows 64,
- mac osx and
- linux 64
- Full monitoring
- Auto-detect
- rendernodes
- Cooperative/
BATCH RENDERING/ RENDER QUEUE
- animation/ single job modes
- Batch rendering/ render queue
- Progressive rendering
- Auto update the image at desired
- sampling level steps
- Priority control
- Scripting
Plug-ins
All available plug-ins are compatible with the latest version of Maxwell Render. The plug-ins have their own specific user guides, available on this site.
3d/
cad plug-ins supported by next limit technologies
- 3ds Max, ArchiCAD, Cinema4D, Form·Z, LightWave, Maya, Modo, Rhino, SketchUp, SolidWorks, Softimage.
Post processing plug-ins supported by next limit technologies
- After Effects, Nuke, Photoshop
- Plug-ins supported by third parties
- Allplan, SolidThinking
info
For a detailed list of available plugins and host versions, see Plug-ins
For all other applications (AutoCAD, Revit, Blender, etc.) it is possible to bring geometry in one of the supported file formats into Maxwell Studio.
Maxwell Studio
Flexible scene editor as an alternative workflow option.
- Import objects
- Supported file formats: MXS, OBJ, STL, PLY, LWO, XC2, 3DS, DXF, FBX, DAE.
- Set up cameras
- Apply materials
- Set up sky and lights
- Send to render
Hierarchy support.
Flexible and customizable UI
Realtime OpenGL previews
- Sky/ Sky Dome
- Environment
- DOF indicator
Maxwell Fire - Fast Interactive Rendering integrated
- Preview instantly any changes in your scene
- Real time compass/ sun position
- Material editor
- Material wizards
- Material browser
- Mxm gallery integration
- Orthographic rendering
- Uv mapping tools
- Google™ earth kml markup support
- Export obj option
Additional content
The following additional contents are included with the purchase of a Standard license of Maxwell Render.
Access to 15 3d/cad plug-ins and 3 post pro plug-ins, free of charge
Vip access to the official maxwell render forum
A free pack of HDR maps
A free pack of erco ies lights
Access to maxwell render resources website
Access to all content in the maxwell render support site
Free maintenance and basic technical support for 12 months from the first purchase
The Maxwell Render SDK