In the Preferences Dialog you can set important workflow and export parameters.
Export
Visibility by 3D Window
If it is ON the plugin exports only the items which are visible in the ArchiCAD 3D window.
If you often use the filtered 3D view modes of ArchiCAD, turns this check box ON!
Smoothing Angle
With this parameter you have advanced control about how the plugin exports smooth polygons. If the angle between adjacent polygons is smaller or equal to this angle, they will be smoothed.
Clamp Reflectance 0
Maxwell materials with too high Reflectance 0° color value (close to RGB 255,255,255) can make your image noisy, not realistic. You have this option to automatically clamp the high color values.
For white materials RGB 225,225,225 is usually a good choice.
Use first Frame as Proxy
This setting is only useful in case of animation export. ArchiCAD animation features are quite limited, so usually the geometry doesn't change between the frames (only the camera position or the environment). It means you can save a lot of memory on your drive and a lot of export time if you export geometry only for the first frame, and for the other frames you only reference this geometry (via Maxwell Proxy object). We recommend to keep this flag ON!
FIRE
Qiality
Time (s)
Sampling Level
Num. Threads
Material Preview
Time (s)
Sampling Level
Texture Folders
You can add five custom folders to look for missing texture files (texture files which are not placed in the location they were in when they were used to create MXM material). You can pick the folder using a dialog by clicking on the “...” buttons.