New Maxwell Rendering Engine Ac2Mxs is ready for ArchiCAD

[Steve Jepson]

"Maxwell Rendering Engine
What is Maxwell?
• Maxwell is a new render engine based on the physics of real light. It's algorithms and equations
reproduce the behavior of light in a completely accurate way. All of the elements in Maxwell,
such as light emitters, material shaders, cameras, etc ..., are entirely based on physically
accurate models.
• Maxwell's method of calculation always converges to the correct solution without introducing
artifacts due to the fact that it is an unbiased renderer.
• Maxwell can fully capture all light interactions between all elements in a scene. All lighting
calculations are performed using spectral information and high dynamic range data.
• Maxwell operates as a stand-alone command line application that targets many different
enivironments like high-end rendering, architectural, production and scientific.
What is Ac2Mxs?
• Ac2Mxs is an ArchiCAD plugin which allows to integrate Maxwell with ArchiCAD
• Ac2Mxs is implemented as 3rd party rendering engine for ArchiCAD – thus it is integrated into
ArchiCAD workflow.
• Ac2Mxs allows to set Maxwell materials as well as Maxwell parameters from within ArchiCAD."


http://www.maxwellrender.com/

[Djordje]

Steve,

Is this the 11 compatible plugin? Otherwise it has been there since 9 ...

[Rafal SLEK]

Latest working plugin was for AC 10 and no Mactel version for long time, as I remember.

[Steve Jepson]

It's a new plug-in for version for Maxwell Render 1.5

It does not work with 11 yet. However, see the Maxwell site about the plug-in that does work with RC1 897

[Djordje]

The final build is 970 ...

I had too many crashes of Maxwell and no time to investigate, although everything did come nicely across, and it did start from the Render menu in 10.

Maybe the best plugin for rendering since Abvent's deceased AV Works? Not the rendering quality, the plugin

[Steve Jepson]

The Maxwell plug-in works fine with ArchiCAD 11.