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We strongly recommend to first of all read two short sections in our documentation which will help to avoid excessive render times and bad looking renders.

Installation and Licensing

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More about licensing Maxwell is described here: Licensing

Network Rendering

The native Maxwell Network System

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To launch Maxwell in command line mode using a node license instead of a full GUI, all that is needed is adding the –node flag to the arguments list

A note on installing Rendernodes on Linux (X11 and Xvfb) 

Due to 3rd part dependencies, Maxwell needs an X11 session running even in nongui mode. However there is a workaround that can be used to run Maxwell on machines with no display hardware and no physical input devices, using Xvfb (virtual framebuffer). More info on how to use Xvfb can be found here: Network FAQ

Special features

Resuming a render

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