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GENERAL FEATURES

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  • PHYSICALLY CORRECT
  • UNBIASED
  • MAXWELL FIRE
    • Fast Interactive Rendering
    • Preview scene changes in seconds
    • Integrated in plug-ins and Maxwell Studio
  • MULTILIGHT™
    • Adjust in real time 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
    • Aerosols
    • Presets
    • Real-life parameters
    • Sky to HDRI conversion

    • MultiLight™ controllable

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  • SKY DOME
  • HDR/MXI ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM
    • Multi-channel control

    • MultiLight™ controllable

  • ADVANCED ILLUMINATION SYSTEM
    • Color + Luminance emitters
    • Temperature emitters (Kelvin)
    • HDR/ MXI emitters
    • Luminary pre-sets
    • Real-life units
    • IES and EULUMDAT support

    • Multilight™ controllable

  • INSTANCING
  • MOTION BLUR
  • RESUME RENDER
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  • RENDER CHANNELS
  • COLOR SPACES
    • sRGB, Adobe98, Apple, PAL, NTSC
  • RENDER LAYERS
    • 8/16/32 BITS OUTPUT
    • PNG, TGA, JPG, TIFF, JPG2000, MXI, HDR,
      EXR, BMP
  • COMPATIBLE WITH REALFLOW
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MATERIAL FEATURES

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  • STACKED LAYERS
    • Stack layers on top of each other
    • Create extremely complex materials
    • BSDF blending (Normal, Additive)
    • Weight mapping
  • SUBSURFACE SCATTERING
  • THIN SSS
  • FRESNEL SIMULATION
  • SPECTRAL DISPERSION
  • ADVANCED ABSORPTION AND TRANSMITTANCE
    • With attenuation distance
    • Mapped (smooth, color)
    • Clipped (explicit, black & white)
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  • ADVANCED ANISOTROPY
  • MATTE MATERIAL
  • BUMP AND NORMAL MAPPING
  • COMPLEX IOR FILES
  • COATING LAYERS
    • Thin film interference/ iridescence
    • Thickness mapping
    • Emission layers
  • COMPOSITE EMITTERS
  • DISPLACEMENT
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CAMERA FEATURES

  • SIMULENS™
    • Diffraction
    • Lens Scattering
    • Devignetting
    • AA Sharpness setting
  • SHIFT LENS
  • POLYGONAL/ CIRCULAR DIAPHRAGM
  • SHUTTER SPEED
  • FOCAL LENGTH
  • FSTOP
  • DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF)
  • AUTO EXPOSURE
  • Z-CLIP PLANES
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NETWORKING FEATURES

  • HYBRID NETWORK support
    • Windows 32, Windows 64, Mac OSX and Linux 64
  • FULL MONITORING
  • Auto-detect RENDERNODES
  • COOPERATIVE/ ANIMATION/ SINGLE JOB MODES
  • BATCH RENDERING/ RENDER QUEUE
  • PRIORITY CONTROL
  • SCRIPTING

 

 

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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
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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.

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MAXWELL STUDIO

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  • 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
  • REAL TIME OPENGL previews
    • Sky/ Sky Dome
    • Environment
    • DOF indicator
  • MAXWELL FIRE INTEGRATED
    • Preview instantly any changes in your scene
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  • 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
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ADDITIONAL CONTENT

The following additional contents are included with the purchase of a Standard license of Maxwell Render.

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  • ACCESS TO 11 3D/CAD PLUG-INS AND 3 POST PRO PLUG-INS, FREE OF CHARGE
  • A FREE PACK OF DOSCH DESIGN HDRIs
  • A FREE PACK OF ERCO IES LIGHTS
  • FREE MAINTENANCE AND BASIC TECHNICAL SUPPORT for 12 months from the first purchase
  • THE MAXWELL RENDER SDK