User manual MAXWELL RENDER MAXWELL RENDER DATASHEET 2010

[. . . ] Maxwell Render's physically correct creations and data can help architects, designers and VFX supervisors understand what lighting inside or outside a building would look like once realized, or what a final product would look like in production. · · KEY FIELDS OF APPLICATION · ARCHITECTURE&INTERIORDESIGN Maxwell Render is the perfect solution for the high end, photo quality visualizations that architects and designers need. The physically correct simulation helps to envisage how natural and artificial light will affect their creations, and high-level integration with many of the major 3D and CAD applications provides a fast and straightforward workflow. Innovative features like Multilight enhance the workflow even further. INDUSTRIAL&PRODUCTDESIGN Used extensively in the automotive, jewelry and product design industries, Maxwell Render offers a complete package for designers. [. . . ] This makes it very easy and intuitive to create interesting and complex materials, such as a rust material showing through a car paint material, or applying a logo on top of a combination of different materials. A large library with thousands of free, ready-to-use materials is also available. Brick 02 by archSTUDIO Distressed gold frame by jason_maranto 100 windows facade by Luca_StudioAltieri Outdoor table V2 by Luca_StudioAltieri trick by Artem80 · Networking In high-end productions, it is often necessary to distribute a render job over a number of machines in a farm to quickly obtain all the frames needed for a sequence or to calculate a very large image. Maxwell Render's networking capabilities are very powerful (more computers equals more speed in a very linear way), and very flexible - networking is multi-platform allowing a mixture of Windows, Mac and Linux systems to be connected together. The software's wizard system makes setting a network job a straightforward task. With networking, you can tell Maxwell to render the same image on all your computers (cooperative rendering), or each computer can render one frame of an animation. PhysicalSkySystem The Physical Sky system in Maxwell Render uses a novel approach, offering a wide range of real-life and physically correct parameters to control the look of the sky and the subsequent lighting in the scene. Results range from common Earth values to exaggerated fantasy skies. Users can create pre-sets of sky settings to quickly load a new sky, or share their pre-sets with other users. It's also possible to save the current sky as an HDR map. · · RealisticCameraModel Maxwell Render simulates a real camera with the associated parameters, such as f-stop, focal length, shutterspeed, etc. By using this type of camera model Maxwell Render can automatically simulate depth of field, natural 3d motion blur, and other effects. With Maxwell Render's camera model, it is very straightforward to match the lighting levels of a real photo with a render. If you are familiar with photography you will feel right at home!MaxwellDisplacement Displacement is a powerful texture-driven tool that can help users to create real geometric detail on objects on-the-fly while rendering. As opposed to many other displacement solutions currently available in the industry, Maxwell Render offers you its very own, unique displacement technology which is capable of simulating any detail without extra memory consumption. In addition, Maxwell Displacement has very few parameters and is very comfortable to control. Sub-SurfaceScattering(SSS) Sub-Surface Scattering (SSS) simulates the effect of light entering a translucent object and scattering inside it. It is a crucial component that allows users to accurately simulate many kinds of materials including plastics, marble, milk and skin. Subsurface scattering in V2 has a special mode which can handle single-sided geometry. This mode is very suitable for leaves, lampshades, paper, and curtains amongst others. The new Thin SSS mode also has the advantage of rendering faster than normal subsurface scattering. The SSS component in Maxwell Render follows an entirely new approach compared to any other SSS system currently available, offering unprecedented, photorealistic effects in material creation. · · Furumaru - http://furumaru. deviantart. com Brian Looney - brianlooney@cox. net Brian Looney - brianlooney@cox. net · SimulensTM Advanced bloom and glare controls that bring a new level of realism and quality. Simulens allows the user to define a pattern to simulate the shape of the camera diaphragm that will model the pattern of light reaching the camera film, creating realistic lens diffraction effects (glare). [. . . ] Linux64 · · · · · · x86_64 distribution with a 2. 6 Kernel and glibc 2. 5 2Ghz Intel® Core® 2, AMD Athlon 64 or better. X server with accelerated OpenGL drivers. 4 GB of RAM memory is highly recommended. 300 MB available hard disk space for installation. [. . . ]