RealFlow does not only provide a convenient method to create plain previews from the viewports, but also to render images and movies in studio quality. With FIRE you can evaluate the look of a scene together with materials and a physically correct lighting system in realtime:
Render shelf > FIRE
Please take a look at the → “Maxwell Render” chapters for more information about our built-in render engine.
Renderable
There are three options:
- “Same as display”. If the node is visible in the viewport then it will be rendered.
- “Yes”. The node will be visible in the preview regardless of its viewport visibility.
- “No” hides the node regardless of its viewport visibility.
Material
Here are the menu's entries:
- “From Node”. Maxwell will take the colour from the “Node” panel's “Color” parameter.
- “From File” lets you load an external MXM material file.
- Choose one of the predefined and ready-to-use materials.
@ File
This field is only available when “Material” is set to “From File”. With a click into the empty field you can load any valid MXM file.
Recalculate normals
When active the node's normals will be recalculated by Maxwell Render. If you experience problems like flickering in animations deactivate the option.
@ Threshold angle
With higher settings, the node appears smoother, with smaller setting a faceting effect appears. The final quality depends on the node's number of polygons.