Maxwell Render - The Light Simulator

[Anonymous]

If you are interested in a new rendering engine for ArchiCAD, check out Maxwell Render.

Gallery at:
http://www.maxwellrender.com/

If you want THAT TYPE OF REALISM in your images, you need to take the jump into the Maxwell universe.

You might be thinking it is difficult. I used to think that way. Guess what? It isn't all that difficult. Within just a few hours I have been able to come to grips with the interface, navigation and material editor.

"But isn't it Slooooooooow?", you quip... No. In many ways it is actually fast. The reason it is so fast is because it is predictable. You don't need to think about Global Strength, Occlusion, Shadow Sampling settings, etc, etc.

It is extremely architectural, place your crosshairs on the hires Earth globe, think google earth, now position your project with north arrow - specify the year, month and time of day. Check Physical Sky and you have just successfully finished the lighting of an exterior.

It has a function that takes just 1 or 2 minutes to generate a fuzzy preview. Very fast and useful.

Here is the clincher, you can also do much of it from within ArchiCAD 10. Yup, NextLimit is working hard to create the connections (plug-ins) between ArchiCAD 10 and Maxwell. PC will come first (as usual Mac comes next) What's exciting about the Mac development is Universal App - Mactel support. Have you heard about the Quad Core Intel chips coming out soon? Imagine a MacPro with dual Quads. All of them working on your images at once. The future is looking kinda bright.

I will post within this thread more info as it become available to me, and I will give you a peek at some of the programs more useful features.

[Dwight]

Archi wrote:
@ferrini
bottom of concrete ceiling is wrong.

Picky, picky.

How about that texture pulsing on the tree trunk - the bark?

[Anonymous]

@fferrini
Thanks for your homepage.
Very nice

[Anonymous]

fferrini,

thanks for jumping into the thread. Great architecture, you explore structure to its extreme. Yes. Looking forward to your continued contributions to the Maxwell information.

[Anonymous]

Archi wrote:
very simple?
You mean ctr.I?
Please answer me.

save your floor plan or perspective drawings in pdf mode (print as pdf) or jpg image, or tiff image, then open photoshop:

[Anonymous]

@ hi Burginger,
thanks a lot! Maxwell is fantastic!

@Dwight
the bark, it has been created with mxed a maxwell standalone application. If you are interested I can mail settings

@Rakela Raul,
grazie, grazie davvero esagerato! Maxwell è strepitoso, lo conosco pochissimo, questi sono veramente i primi test che ho fatto.

@everybody
excuse me for my poor English!

[Anonymous]

WOW, I didn't know that you can done so goooood renders in maxwell...
Is the tree done aslo in that program, could you inport models from 3d max??
Great work..

[Anonymous]

Hi WhiteMan,
Thanks a lot!
Trees are models imported in Archicad from Onyxpro (saved as .3ds)
Ciao Fabio

[Anonymous]

Bellissimo lavoro Fabio (anche se te l'ho gia detto..), bello anche il taglio delle inquadrature 😉

Maxwell Render R O C K S !! (only my humble opinion, dont'kill please...)

[Anonymous]

I have just downloaded maxwell, and plug in for 3d max. I created a box and a plane in max, put on them maxwell materials, one light, and pressed render. All I got was the black picture in maxwell render window.
Why???

[Anonymous]

I solve that problem, not bad at all...
Just one more question: Do you inport models from ArchiCAD to Studio, or just take renders in ArchiCAD(with seted maxwell for rendering engine, because I did that combination, but I can't render it-it openes that window for rendering, but it wont do any rendering..)
Do you need to place some specials lights maybe???
Maybe someone could tell the proces of making the render with ArchiCAD + maxwell..