Complete Feature List

Owned by Systems Next Limit (Unlicensed)
27 Jan, 2017
3 min read

Courtesy of Wonder Vision. www.wonder-vision.com

Components

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 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.

Plug-ins

Currently there are 14 plug-ins, connecting Maxwell Render to the most popular 3D / CAD and post-production applications (post-production plugins are free of charge). For a complete overview, see Plugins

MXED

The Maxwell Render Material editor. A versatile Material Editor with powerful, physically based 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
    • 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

  • 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

  • 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
    • Hair/Fur

  • ALEMBIC SUPPORT
  • MXS REFERENCED OBJECTS
  • TIGHT COMPATIBILITY WITH REALFLOW

 

Material features

  • Simplified material assistants
  • Stacked layers
  • Create extremely complex materials
  • BSDF blending
  • Weight mapping
  • 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

 

Camera features

  • Lenses

    • Thin film
    • Pin hole
    • Orthographic
    • Spherical and Cylindrical

  • 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

Network Rendering 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
  • 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, Maya, Modo, Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, SolidWorks.

  • Post processing plug-ins supported by next limit technologies

    • After Effects, Nuke, Photoshop
  • Plug-ins supported by third parties
    • Allplan, SolidThinking, Blender

For a detailed list of available plugins and host versions, see Plugins

For all other applications (AutoCAD, Houdini, Lightwave, 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
  • 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.

  • A free pack of HDR maps

  •   A free pack of erco ies lights

  • Free maintenance and basic technical support for 12 months from the first purchase

  • The Maxwell Render SDK