Preview and Console panels

The Preview window

The Preview window displays an smaller version of the rendered image. This windows shows the progress of the render and the adjustments interactively, and the changes are only transferred to the big window on each integer Sampling Level value that is reached (if the render is running), of when you hit the Refresh button (if the render is stopped).

The Console panel

This panel provides information about the rendering process and scene statistics. Any error or warning messages are also displayed in the Console tab. If your scene does not start to render, you should first look in this panel for information on what the problem might be.

The verbosity levels can be adjusted in the Maxwell preferences (File>Preferences), or controlled via the command line, using the -v: or -verbose: flag, which values can vary from:

• -v:0 (no information displayed)
• -v:1 (errors)
• -v:2 (warnings)
• -v:3 (info)
• -v:4 (all)