Maxwell Render, The Light Simulator, wartet mit folgenden Eigenschaften auf. Eine bebilderte Ansicht ausgewählter Funktionen können Sie in der Detail-Galerie aufrufen:

Komponenten

• MXST Maxwell Studio:
  Sophisticated Maxwell Scene Editor
• MXED Material Editor:
  Standalone Material Editor with Material Browser for Plug-Ins
• MXCL Maxwell Rendercore:
  Photo Camera

Schattierung

• Single-Shader Material System
• Layer Blending:
  Basic Layer Blending (normal, additive)
  Weightmapping
• Fresnel Reflections
• Advanced Absorption:
  Attenuation
• Spectral Dispersion
• Advanced Transmittance:
  Mapped (smooth-color)
  Clipped (explicit-b/w)
• Advanced Anisotropy
• Bump Mapping
• Sub-surface Scattering
• Coating Layers:
  Thin Film Interference
  Thickness-Mapping
• IOR / Complex IOR Support

Beleuchtung

• Advanced Illumination System:
  Color and Luminance Emitters
  Temperature Emitters (Kelvin)
  MXI / HDR Emitters
  Luminaries Presets
  Watts / Efficacy Control
  Lumens / Candela Control
• Maxwell Glare System
• Composite Emitters:
  Emitter over materials (Emitters and Basic Layers)
• Emixer - Emitter Mixer Panel:
  Realtime interactive emitters with keyframe animated intensities
• Physical Sky and Sunlight
• Skydome
• MXI / HDR Environment System:
  Multi-Channel Control (Background, Reflection, Refraction, Illumination)
  Screen-Mapping for background
  Activating channels for skydome / physical sky

Kameraoptionen

• Polygonal / Circular Diaphragm
• Shutter Speed
• Focal Length
• FSTOP
• DOF: Depth of field
• 3D Motion Blur

Rendering

• AGS: Architectural Glass Solution
• Hidden Objects incl. Hidden Emitters
• Merge Multiple MXI
• Resume MXI
• Harddisk Rendering
• Selective Engines: rs0 (preview) and rs1 (production)
• Simple / Advanced Tonemapping:
  ISO, Burn, Gamma
• Render Channels:
  Alpha, Object ID, Material ID, zBuffer
• Render Layers:
  Direct, Indirect, Reflective / Refractive Caustics
• HDR32 Render Output

Studio-Eigenschaften

• Flexible drag and shape GUI
• Customize and save layouts
• Realtime OpenGL sky/skydome preview
• Realtime OpenGL environment preview
• Realtime OpenGL DOF indicator
• Realtime Compass / Sun Position
• Material Browser
• Material Editor:
  Invert textures
  Texture selector
  Shader tools
• Camera Autofocus
• Orthographic Rendering
• Filmback for camera
• UV Projectors
• Multilevel Editing:
  Group, object, polygon selection
  Select objects by name
  Select objects by material
  Remove unused materials
• Undo
• Selective Render Engines (RS0, RS1)
• Bounce control for preview engine
• Google Earth KML markup support
• Commandline Parameters Support
• Supported 3D-file formats like *.mxs, *.obj, *.stl, *.nff, *.xc2, *.dxf, *.3ds, *.xml, *.fbx

Netzwerk

• Autodetect Render-Nodes
• Normal / Cooperative Modes
• Batch Rendering / Render Queue
• Priority Control
• Full Monitoring:
  State, Frames, SL, Target SL, Time, Resolution
• Hybrid Network Support:
  Win, OSX, Linux

Betriebssysteme

• Win, OSX oder Linux

Plug-In

• für Rhinoceros
• außerdem für 3dsmax, Maya, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, SolidWorks, FormZ, SketchUp, Archicad
• NOTE: For all other applications (Autocad, Microstation, Blender, Carrara etc.) it's possible to bring geometry into Studio with the supported file formats. (*.obj, *.stl, *.lwo, *.nff, *.xc2, *.dxf, *.3ds, *.xml, *.fbx)

Behobene Probleme

• Keine Unschärfe mehr hinter Glassobjekten
• Clipmaps funktionieren nun
• Lichtdurchlässige Objekte sind nun möglich
• Versteckte Lichtquellen sind einsetzbar