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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 15 plug-ins, connecting Maxwell Render to the most popular 3D / CAD and post-production applications. ALL included at no extra charge with every license of Maxwell Render. For a complete overview, see Plug-ins

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, 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

For a detailed list of available plugins and host versions, see Plug-ins

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
Realtime OpenGL previews
- Sky/ Sky Dome
- Environment
- DOF indicator

Maxwell Fire - Fast Interactive Rendering integrated
- Preview instantly any changes in your scene

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.

Access to 15 3d/cad plug-ins and 3 post pro plug-ins, free of charge

Vip access to the official maxwell render forum
- http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum

A free pack of HDR maps

A free pack of erco ies lights

Access to maxwell render resources website
- http://resources.maxwellrender.com

Access to all content in the maxwell render support site
- http://support.nextlimit.com

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

The Maxwell Render SDK

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Components

Maxwell Render

Network Rendering

Plug-ins

MXED

Maxwell Studio

General features

PHYSICALLY CORRECT

UNBIASED

MAXWELL FIRE

MULTILIGHT™

ADVANCED PHYSICAL SKY SYSTEM

HDRI/MXI ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM

ADVANCED ILLUMINATION SYSTEM

INSTANCING

REAL 3D MOTION BLUR

ON-THE-FLY BOOLEANS

RESUME RENDER

PROGRESSIVE RENDERING

RENDER CHANNELS

COLOR SPACES

RENDER LAYERS

MAXWELL EXTENSIONS

ALEMBIC SUPPORT

MXS REFERENCED OBJECTS

TIGHT COMPATIBILITY WITH REALFLOW

Material features

Camera features

Network Rendering features

Plug-ins

Maxwell Studio

Additional content

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