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]

2nd attempt

SL - 13.14
Render time - 48 min

[Anonymous]

Danj,

What is your f-stop, shutter, ISO, burn and gamma values?

[Anonymous]

f-stop - 11
shutter - 125
ISO - 100
burn - 1
gamma - 2.2

renders done at low dpi just for speed, if I was printing they be at 300dpi +

[Anonymous]

After alot of playing around I think I am finally getting my head around maxwell render, materials and using it with archicad.
behold, I give you my latest render, be prepared to be dazzled,

I made GRASS.....

thats right, GRASS.....

[Dwight]

The bile of envy rises in my throat.

Would you be so kind as to post your texture map and strategy so it might be applied in Archicad? Looks like a bunch of small crisscross walls.....

[Anonymous]

Dwight, sorry to jump in the middle but there is a whole tutorial how to make such grass on the MR forum:

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20883&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

also material can be downloaded from here (registration needed):

http://mxmgallery.maxwellrender.com/search.php?search=grass&mode=1

[Anonymous]

This is a project i did for a local architect. The project is called margaritaville villas. I hope you guys like it.


http://archigraphixdesign.carbonmade.com/projects/56410#2
http://archigraphixdesign.carbonmade.com/projects/60823#1

[Anonymous]

you can download good image of grass, then in photoshop copy it with alpha channel and add this image as texture on small walls ( in archicad) or on something else.
http://archidom.net/ddd/model_G.htm -
grass

[Anonymous]

Here is an interior shot of an office I am designing. This is my first actual project with Maxwell.

S.L. 15
8 hrs

Justin

[Anonymous]

Hello Im looking little in a direction of Maxwell for Archicad nad I was wondering if someone could share some more light on thos subject.
Is MW compatiable with AC11? How do you use it? DO you have to export your model to MW studio or you just have a pluging for AC?
Can you use MW materials? Is it implemented good like Lightworks?
Thank you