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]

I tried a different sun position and opened the gate as requested. Hope you guys like it

[Anonymous]

Looking great. Now you can have fun and render, render, render.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Testing some materials that i will be using in my next scene. I used the Physical Sky and an HDRI sky map for the reflections. I was wondering if anyone has had the problem of rendering out of archicad and the depth of field is way out of sink. I am starting another exterior scene and i did some test lastnight. I found my scene with a depth of field that was so bad it was hurting my eyes to look at it. Either i was that sleepy(didn't go to bed until 4:15am) or my settings were really messed up. I would like to see other users of the plug-in comment on this issue. Hope you guys like my material test

[Anonymous]

Hi kjverine,

About DOF - if you render via plug-in make sure your target is in range, do it by "Look to -> Target Point" from 3d navigation pallet, to avoid shallow DOF increase F Stop of maxwell camera to 10 or even more.
I found also that film settings are tenfold comparing to what we used to in Studio (and real camera settings), so make sure you divide it by 10 when putting values.
Some general thought: even though new plug-in is a great improvement I still get better results by using Studio, from the other hand having Maxwell under ACad roof make the workflow a lot more comfortable.

[Anonymous]

Another one of those Chair Scene test renders. Who left the water on?

[Anonymous]

Looks like my bathroom after me taking shower

[Anonymous]

Is there any tutorials for AC to Maxwell, that anybody know of, so the conversion will be flowless.

any simple tips are wolcomed, as well.

[Anonymous]

Is there any tutorials for AC to Maxwell, that anybody know of, so the conversion will be flowless.

any simple tips are wolcomed, as well.

[Dwight]

"Flowless"

Like DWG import to Archicad was in 1992.

[Anonymous]

I meant the plug ins and the workflow that I should be following, any tutorials on that?
never used maxwell actually, it is an option now,
so don't know much about it