maxwell for archicad

[giza]

hi everybody, news from Next Limit are great soon there will be maxwell plug-in for archicad perfect!!

[giza]

so Stefan are you kind of programmer also?? ,did you try to advice or talk to people from NL about these possibilities , i think thay need more archicad user input, they sent emails to users of their M~R forum :

":We are looking for people that want to collaborate in plugins development for Maxwell. Please send your details to jobs@nextlimit.com:"

i think that the plugin as is now it is useless. it cant even save the .mxi file so that eg. we use Matador light (that is free) and edit materials or lights or similar

[stefan]

giza wrote:
so Stefan are you kind of programmer also?? ,did you try to advice or talk to people from NL about these possibilities , i think thay need more archicad user input, they sent emails to users of their M~R forum :

":We are looking for people that want to collaborate in plugins development for Maxwell. Please send your details to jobs@nextlimit.com:"

i think that the plugin as is now it is useless. it cant even save the .mxi file so that eg. we use Matador light (that is free) and edit materials or lights or similar

I'm a researcher (doing CAD and programming). One of the people from Next Limit visited the developers forum here, at ArchiCAD-Talk and I gave some advice, but then he sort of disappeared.

I have no possibility to do additional programming or contract work.

I do have the intention of one day continuing my Radiance plugin and also add support for different renderers. As long as they are free to use and can be run from the command line, it is possible to export the necessary files from ArchiCAD and call the renderer too. I've done this for Radiance, but expect not much adjustment to support POV-Ray and Renderman/RIB too. I suppose Maxwell would be possible, but I don't have the renderer to play with and, frankly, I can't spend $500 for an alpha-version of a commercial rendering engine, being a non-commercial, academic user.

VRay and Brazil are (or will be) standalone and they are (will be) also ported as a plugin-renderer for Maya.
Even FinalRender has being ported from 3ds max to also run in Cinema4D (although Cinema4D has a nice renderer itself, it is in fact licensed from the people behind Final Render: Cebas, IIRC).
And Mental Ray is both standalone and a plugin renderer (for XSI, Maya, 3ds max and some Mechanical CAD-software).