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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
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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
REAL TIME OPENGL previews
- Sky/ Sky Dome
- Environment
- DOF indicator
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