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Noemi Balogh
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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.
Nice work kjverine.. how did you make the paintings? When i use the "Picture 10" object and render with maxwell my pictures get black 
another camera angle.
(When i use the "Picture 10" object and render with maxwell my pictures get black )
I jus made the paintings a box or in archicad a wall with the painting dimension size. Then i made the painting a material, then applied it to the box. I played around with the projectors in studio to get it to fit the "box" or canvas size of the painting.
For the background...........i dunno wat happened. I had it screen mapped and when i sent it to rendr thats what i got. So something went wrong somewhere and i will have to figure that one out later
(When i use the "Picture 10" object and render with maxwell my pictures get black )
I jus made the paintings a box or in archicad a wall with the painting dimension size. Then i made the painting a material, then applied it to the box. I played around with the projectors in studio to get it to fit the "box" or canvas size of the painting.
For the background...........i dunno wat happened. I had it screen mapped and when i sent it to rendr thats what i got. So something went wrong somewhere and i will have to figure that one out later
These rendering times make me feel uncomfortable! Am I the laziest of us here in the forum? 
This urges me to show the latest rendering of an inteior renovation I made today to show it to a client. Work in progress, good enough for clients but not for competitions.
Model: lounge chair - Evermotion; curtains, pillows, ashtray and carpet- Max; everything else - AC.
Original size - as shown, 800/600; faces - 250 000; Max+VRay.
Rendering time - 46 min; Secret - no reflections for metals and wood.
This urges me to show the latest rendering of an inteior renovation I made today to show it to a client. Work in progress, good enough for clients but not for competitions.
Model: lounge chair - Evermotion; curtains, pillows, ashtray and carpet- Max; everything else - AC.
Original size - as shown, 800/600; faces - 250 000; Max+VRay.
Rendering time - 46 min; Secret - no reflections for metals and wood.
cool kjverine! .. can you describe for me how to create the materals in maxwell, i've tried but it doesn't seems to work
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