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NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:39:44 GMT

http://www.richardrosenman.com/maxwell.htm

http://www.maxwellrender.com/indexeng.html

Check this out

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Still at begining but it pomise !

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Rob — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:13:56 GMT

already discovered at:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=4652

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:48:17 GMT

Thanks for the reminder. I had not visited since they posted the Santa rendered video. That is neat.

Tick, tick, tick time keeps advancing - so do the applications we all enjoy. Isn't it just grand?

Mark

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 20:41:41 GMT

Render test, how does C4D stack up against the Maxwell rendering engine?

http://ixor.gr/maxwelltest/tea.htm

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:45:29 GMT

Let's see if i understood right....

for example, in maxwell site it says that there will be a stand alone version with material editor..etc..etc..

...it means that i will be able to model in archicad and export directly to maxwell??? without having another software like 3ds max or c 4d?....

if so,...it means that it will be a complete rendering tool instead of being a lonely rendering engine...

anyone?

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:22:20 GMT

anyone, anyone to answer me?

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:23:06 GMT

From web site, yes.

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:38:32 GMT

YES.

But it is not currently availiable.

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:25:18 GMT

There is a nice interview in cgarchitect, take a look...

http://www.cgarchitect.com/upclose/article1_NL.asp

....I really like when they say, "Maxwell guarantees the calculation of light propagation as in the real life with a few parameters, so it's more like touch-and-go"

i'll be waiting

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:46:06 GMT

Having used Maxwell for about a week to some very simple geometries but difficult lighting conditions my impression is that the results are great.

You dont have to know a great deal of thingsabout lighting to make a good rendering. You only put the lights that are ACTUALLY in the scene and not 5-10 more to simulate light bounces. There are many nice renderings in cgtalk to see for examples.

The main "drawback" are long rendering times, but the results are worth the time.

I am going to post later some very simple examples. Not fancy renderings but to show how it simulates light.
I am currently doing a big rectangular room with everything set to white except the floor , set to plastic green material. There 24 spheres accross the roof set as light emiters (using normal lamps intensity).

I am posting the result as soon as it is finished.

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:52:37 GMT

That sounds interesting, are you using the plug-in or the stand alone beta?

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:10:27 GMT

the stand alone will be released in about a month.

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 04:54:22 GMT

I am maybe one of the very first users of Maxwell and the Stand alone Version will not be available NEXT month...

According to the road map it will be available 15 MArch but wait till April....

anyway if you want to see maxwell renderings check my website:

http://www.bisand.com

I will upload more stuff - when I have time...

Also I have read somewhere about import Archicad model to maxwell question?

The R.1 Maxwell will be like a super advanced Art-Lantis lets say... so no need to C4d os Max or whatever you are using... I do not know yet if you will be able to animate objects - but I am sure about lights and cameras!

anyway... I am trying to convince Oscar and Victor (maxwell developers) to fully support an archicad model but they are so many 3d programs that it is imposible for them to support all... maybe we will have better luck to talk to graphisoft to create a Maxwell export plugin...

if you have questions let me now...

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:31:29 GMT

Actually maxwell as is, is targeted to architecture mostly (due to high rendering times), so an export plugin is not just another 3d program.
But i guess if there 3d format (mxs) is open, a plugin would be really easy to write.

From Archicad to 3ds to maxwell is not an easy trip for a big project.

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:24:07 GMT

Since the C4D plug-in for Maxwell won't be coming out for several months and I don't know when the C4D Macintosh version of the plug-in is scheduled.

And, since most of us don't design projects that look like hollow hallways with nothing but stairways and teapots hanging from the ceiling. Would any of the current users be interested in a 3ds export that they can render in Max using Maxwell? Just a standard house, nothing artsy.

Interested in render times and basic effect.

email me directly

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:06:43 GMT

Hi andronikos916: Congratulations by your work... are very good... I also I use ArchiCAD+3dsmax+Vray... that good that you were used my model 3d of the chair phanto... jejeje... follows ahead

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:51:25 GMT

Just one inside rendering. Nothing fancy. Not quality materials.
Most materials are reflective, plastic floor, nickel, to watch how the renderer uses light.

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:03:47 GMT

Thanks, very interesting. Render times and platform?

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:16:32 GMT

In Maxwell you dont put the model and press render and wait to finish.
You actually do the other way around.
You put the max time you wish to render and the max sampling level you wish the algorith to reach.
The sampling level is part of the algorithm maxwell uses, the higher the better, and values above 20 usually produce noise free pictures.
For that picture i let the program run for 3 hours, i set the time limit to 12 hours but stopped it earlier cause i saw what i wanted.

I will do the same picture with lights off and only sunlight on , which now is off. That king of rendering usually takes much more time to be noise free.

I use an AMD Athlon 2Ghz 1GB RAM.

Maxwell can render in a network(or multiple cpu's) but i have not used that feature yet

PS. Look the band of lights that reflects on the floor behind the chair and is not parallell to the direction of original light.

Re: NEW RENDERING PROGRAM "MAXWELL RENDER"

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:18:39 GMT

The same model with lights off and just sunlight.
The picture is dark, because there hall is big and the openings not enough but that is what i wanted. I wanted to see how reflective surfaces behave.

Rendering time 5 hours. The pictures is noisy enough. I guess for a noise free picture on my machine (athlon 2GHz 1GBRam) i need about 10 hours with the current alpha version.