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v3.0.0.4

 

Requires Maxwell Render 3 (3.0.0.0) (or greater) and Bonzai3d 3.2.2 (or greater).

 

v 3.0.0.4


Changes

  • Fire
    • Faster Fire interaction; full revoxelization is now unnecessary in majority of cases.
  • Views
    • Axonometric and Orthographic view types supported
    • Additional Camera Types: Pinhole, Fisheye, Spherical, and Cylindrical
  • Maxwell Scatter Object Modifier
    • Randomly distributes MXS scene references upon any Bonzai3d object (e.g., plants on an undulating ground plane)
    • Complex scenes may be built with no penalty on your Bonzai3d memory or file size.
    • Load/Save scatter definitions for reuse
  • Maxwell Reference Object Type
    • Tool to place MXS scene references
    • Multiple options for random scaling and rotation, dynamic placement along surface normal, etc.
    • Massive MXSs take up very little memory / disk space in your Bonzai3d project
    • Bounding box or proxy points display
  • Maxwell Sea Object Type
    • Generate bodies of water within Bonzai3d
    • Sea placement tool

  • Maxwell Volumetric Object Type

    • Render haze, fog, and underwater suspended particulate effects
    • Volumetric placement tool
  • Layer Channels
    • Allow making custom alpha channels from any number of Bonzai3d Layers for fast and easy adjustment and compositing
    • Option to merge alpha layers

  • Lights

    • New image "Projector" light type, with parameters of field angle, spin, etc.
  • Materials
    • New "Wireframe" Material
    • New "Matte" Material
    • Translate 'Shaded' with map alpha channel now supports negative roughness values. (Texture map is inverted if parameter is less than 0.)
    • 'Is Emitter' setting is no longer necessary for referenced emitter materials
  • Object Attributes
    • Backface culling (single-sided surface display)
    • Backface Material (specify material for the back side of objects)
    • Object Transparency control
  • Environment
    • New Sun Radius Factor allows for softer sun shadows.
    • Sun Color by RGB option.
  • Render Text Overlay
    • Custom text + more than a dozen options to display filename, view, SL acheived, etc.
  • Scale Model
    • Render scene as a scaled architectural model for enhanced depth-of-field effects
    • Options for common architectural scale factors following the metric 1-2-5 rule, and fractional inches-to-foot for imperial projects

 

v 2.7.2.2

Changes (from v 2.5.3.1)

  • Interactive Preview
    • Added Maxwell Fire support for real-time previewing views, lights, materials and objects.
    • Possible to store image ‘snapshots’ of the preview as it is rendering.
    • Preview window options: fixed sized 1:1 ratio, and fixed sized 2:1 ratio
  • Extensions
    • Added Maxwell Grass support.
  • Materials
    • New system for updating 'Shaded' Renderer texture maps to match MXMs.
    • Added texture map adjustments (saturation, contrast, interpolation, etc.) for auto-translated Bonzai3d materials.
    • Autotranslated materials can now map the alpha channel of the color map to MXM roughness or bump.
    • Autotranslated materials can now be exported as MXMs for further editing
    • Material ID color for auto-translated materials can now be explicitly set.
    • Resource Manager now heals referenced MXM paths as soon as material is selected in Material Parameters palette.
    • Resource Manager can now automatically search for missing bitmaps referenced by autotranslated materials, instead of relying on project-embedded bitmap export
    • Scene Material Overide option.
    • New Autotranslate Material Hints:
      • Emitter
      • Realistic Match
      • Anodized Aluminum
      • Industrial Coating (automotive paint; powder coat)
      • Rubber
      • Simple Subsurface Scattering
    • Ability to set all preview render thumbnails to the MXED embedded thumbnail. Useful when opening formZ 6 files (which do not store thumbnails) for the first time.
    • Maxwell materials can now be previewed in the Materials Parameters palette using Fire. Option remains to use the MXM preview embedded by MXED, if preferred.
  • Image
    • Normals and Position channel support
  • File handling
    • Dramatically faster export from Bonzai3d to Maxwell Scene.
    • Added Resource Manager which automatically detects and filepath-corrects any missing dependencies (IES, MXMs, HDRs, images, etc.). Makes moving projects between workstations and using resource servers easy.
    • New Workstation Transfer and Package for Renderfarm commands replace the legacy pack-and-go functionality.
  • Interface
    • Improved Render Options dialog/palette organized into five new tabs.
    • Growl support (OSX only).
    • Added console Log to diagnose problems and evaluate scene performance.
    • New Forum command takes you to the user support forum, and provides vital system information for including with your post.
    • New Maxwell Documentation and Plugin Documentation commands take you directly to the online documentation.
  • Lights
    • 2-color gradient Sky Dome now supported.
  • Cameras
    • New Focus Camera command focuses the camera on the plane of selected entities, without changing the view cropping.
  • General
    • Separate Maxwell Attributes plugin eliminated; functionality now included in the main Maxwell plugin.
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