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[Anonymous]

Let these developers know what you think.

http://www.maxwellrender.com/


Mark

[rm]

WOW!!!!

Mark, excellent find, and for OSX no less! What do you know about this software.....cost, availability, file format?

Hope we can get this soon.

Regards.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Very cool, Mark. Thanks for the heads up.

Fascinating capital-generation model: buy the alpha version for $395, and get all of the alpha, beta updates, and then the final version next year for being a tester ... vs $995 anticipated retail price next year. Of course, it takes some confidence that the company will survive to deliver, but $395 isn't that risky...

Let us know when they have links to something other than MAX and Maya. (Speaking of Maya, there is a complete version of Maya 6 Personal Learning Edition - watermarks images - on the CD with the current edition of 3D World magazine.)

Karl

[stefan]

When was the last time you had to pay to beta-test software?

--- Oh well, ArchiCAD 8.0 comes to mind 😉

They either don't have the capital to get the ball rolling or they are so confident it will be good. But nevertheless, paying for an alpha-version is not that correct.

And the rendering look OK, but you can do that in other software too. The question is if you can make such renderings in a reasonable amount of time and know nothing about rendering at all. Then it's a good candidate to support.

If they have an easy import-format, then it might be tempting to try to support it with an ArchiCAD export-addon... I'm thinking or rewriting my Radiance addon (that is in pre-alpha stage) to support more render-engines (e.g. Renderman, POV-Ray & Radiance or so). The thing is that I still need to figure out how to get a clean, triangulated mesh, instead of the polygons with holes ArchiCAD provides.

[Rob]

absolutely amazing...
such a fantastic idea to have just one variable for output quality - time