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COMPONENTS
MAXWELL RENDER
- THE CORE RENDER application.
PLUG-INS
- Connecting Maxwell Render to the most popular 3D and CAD applications. For a complete overview, see
MXED
- The Maxwell Render Material editor. A versatile Material Editor with powerful, physically based correct materials.
MAXWELL 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
PHYSICALLY CORRECT
UNBIASED
MAXWELL FIRE
- Fast Interactive Rendering
- Preview scene changes in seconds
- Integrated in plug-ins and Maxwell Studio
MULTILIGHT TM
- 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 TM
controllable
SKY DOME
HDR/MXI ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM
- Multi-channel control
MultiLight TM
controllable
ADVANCED ILLUMINATION SYSTEM
- Color + Luminance emitters
- Temperature emitters (Kelvin)
- HDR/ MXI emitters
- Luminary pre-sets
- Real-life units
- IES and EULUMDAT support
Multilight TM
controllable
INSTANCING
MOTION BLUR
RESUME RENDER
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
- PNG, TGA, JPG, TIFF, JPG2000, MXI, HDR,
COMPATIBLE WITH REALFLOW
MATERIAL FEATURES
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)
ADVANCED ANISOTROPY
MATTE MATERIAL
BUMP AND NORMAL MAPPING
COMPLEX IOR FILES
COATING LAYERS
- Thin film interference/ iridescence
- Thickness mapping
- Emission layers
COMPOSITE EMITTERS
DISPLACEMENT
CAMERA FEATURES
SIMULENS™
- Diffraction
- Lens Scattering
- Devignetting
SHIFT LENS
POLYGONAL/ CIRCULAR DIAPHRAGM
SHUTTER SPEED
FOCAL LENGTH
FSTOP
DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF)
AUTO EXPOSURE
Z-CLIP PLANES
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
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 with the plug-in installations.
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
Note: for all other applications (AutoCAD, Revit, Blender, etc.) it is possible to bring geometry in one of the supported file
formats into Studio.