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.

[Anonymous]

Hi, i have just installed the maxwell render plugin, and now i want to try to use the materials from maxwell render also, can someone tell how to do that? I know i have to open the materials settings dialog and select something, but i can't figure out where to find it :S

[Anonymous]

My First Interior With Maxwell. Hope You Guys Like It.

[Anonymous]

That looks really good. The noise cleanup saves time. Great view!

Perhaps photoshop the building reflection across the coffee table.

[Anonymous]

Nice work, but it can get better. Just look at those pictures in their gallery. I think we should post here same tips& tricks, about maxwell. For example, I am about to start making one house in ArchiCAD, and then try to make realistic render in Maxwell. So, I would like to know how I can put realistic trees in my renders.

[Anonymous]

Some updates to my rendering.

[Anonymous]

another update

[Anonymous]

another update

[Anonymous]

Could you share the number of faces of the model, rendering time and original size?

[Anonymous]

Geometry:

Num Meshes: 151
Num Triangles: 678014
Num Vertexes: 356376
Num Normals: 361411

Bitmaps:

Num Bitmaps: 36

Resolution
1500x1000 Camera03
Can't remember Resolution for Camera04

Did some noise reduction and postwork in photoshop.

Had these Cooking for 24hrs on my AMD Athlon XP 1700+, 1.5 Gigs Ram

[Anonymous]

Oops! You DO HAVE a lot of patience!

Never done a rendering more than 5 hours long!

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=14251&postdays=0&postorder=desc&&start=20