Preview and Console panels

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Last updated: 26 Jan, 2015 by Mihai Iliuta (Unlicensed)
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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).

 

Preview window - Courtesy of Fuel FX

  

  

Fast Multilight Preview

Multilight can use the power of your graphics card to accelerate the slider adjustments, displaying your lighting changes instantly in the main render view, instead of in the small Preview window described above. Find more information and see it in action in the Fast Multilight Preview page. 

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.

 

Console panel displaying information about the render process

  

  

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)