Maxwell Fire - Fast Interactive Rendering

Maxwell Fire is an interactive preview tool that will significantly speed-up your workflow by allowing you to see scene changes instantly through a floating window inside your normal user interface.

Instead of constantly doing test renders and moving your camera or objects to check where emitter reflections fall on a surface or see how the bumps and color look in your scene, with Maxwell Fire you can get real-time feedback when editing a material or moving your camera and/or objects in the scene.

In Maxwell v3, Maxwell Fire has dramatically been improved, by selectively voxelizating only the objects which have changed, saving you a tremendous amount of time when setting up your scenes. 

Plug-in compatability

Maxwell FIRE is currently available in Studio and the following plug-ins:

• 3DS Max

• ArchiCAD

• Cinema4D

• FormZ 7

• Houdini

• Lightwave

• Maya

• Modo

• Rhinoceros

• SketchUp

• Softimage

• Solidworks

Other plug-ins will see the addition of Maxwell Fire in the near future, subject to SDK limitations.

Like the free Demo version of Maxwell Render itself, Maxwell Fire inside the free demo version has its rendering resolution limited to 720x576 pixels. You can adjust the rendering resolution in a quality scale (from 1 to 5), meaning that you can easily specify the quality/speed of your interactive view.