[問題]maxwell render

[S'tephen]

　
maxwell render 是什麼？同ｍａｘ通用嗎？
幾大容量，有無得download？

my email Adress: kyfung01@hotmail.com ，感謝:oops:

　

[Siegfried]

It's a plug-in renderer, for the time being, there are only several software compatible with MW, e.g. Solidworks, Rhino, 3DSMax, Maya, LW, C4D etc....

http://www.maxwellrender.com/

容量--- very small.

Download ? Of course yes, you can download it directly from FTP once you paid the money, on wire exchange or credit card.

It's in beta ver now, price is $495.

[俏女傭]

唔知點解用最新的beta 1.2用30min去render,sampling用25
但去到sampling7就話...Rendering successful！冇得再render看起來仲有很多noise！我是用maya 6.01的

[Siegfried]

唔知點解用最新的beta 1.2用30min去render,sampling用25
但去到sampling7就話...Rendering successful！冇得再render看起來仲有很多noise！我是用maya 6.01的

It would be super-grainy if you wanna have a rendering in just 30 min with S.L of 25 !

The engine stops to calculate when the time you input reached, or it stops when the S.L. achieved.

In that case, just input a very large value of time and a fair amount of S.L. and let it run, you can then stop the rendering whenever you're satisfied with the rendering outcome.

Remember, MW is a software that eats time, even they claimed that the beta would be faster in 4X in average ( that means, the grain would be 1/4 in the same amount of time ).

Take a look at the attachment (original 2055*1032 px), I rendered it for 870 mins with S.L.25, but I just stoppped it around 860 min as I cannot take that long, the rendering is still VERY grainy.
I'll give it a try during Saturday and Sunday, for a 48 hrs rendering marathorn.

[Wolf]

870 min! I would've killed the bastard when it entered the 30 min mark and showed the first sign of that level of grain -- and remember grains look even worse in moving images. Notwithstanding the pretty pictures in their gallery, this type of rendering speed is unacceptable for any serious work. I think currently the only viable solution for fast GI is MR.

[俏女傭]

謝謝Siegfried兄的意見,真的唯有加長render time的的時間及Sampling Level,但正式版希望有更大的改善！

[Siegfried]

As you all know, MW is still in Beta ver. with such an attractive price rank, we cannot ask for too much right ? Just like 3DS DOS (b4 3DSMax), there are so many bugs founds, people keep expressiing their comments and let the software grow, that's the way a software expand and get mature.

[HammerChugoh]

Doesn't sounds like ready for production anyway, looks more like another CG toy.

[Siegfried]

The principle behind MW is truly extraordinary, by using electromagnetic waves, what you applied in the real life can be applied to the 3D scene, that's good for lighting and effect.

What it needs to improve is the rendering speed and certain bugs within the plug-in for a variety of software.

[Wolf]

For people who're interested, Matt Pharr & Greg Humphreys' book "Physically Based Rendering" has a short chapter about the color technology behind MW (page 227). Spectral color representation adds one more level of complication to a rendering system that's still struggling with GI, volumetric illumination (including SSS), etc. I don't think it will be anytime soon that this technology will become fast enough for serious production work. Anyway, emphatically,

~(Computationally accurate illumination -> good lighting)

[Siegfried]

Right. that's why I'm still using my Flamingo for production rendering, though a lot more lighting tricks are required for a similar effects.

MW for the time being is still a toy for kids... and you're gonna need a super computer to run it smooth.

[俏女傭]

想問她的network render 能否support多粒cpu去Render一張圖！thx各位

[Siegfried]

For the time being, 1 licence = 4 CPU.

[俏女傭]

但Batch Render好像不行啊！

[Siegfried]

但Batch Render好像不行啊！

When you take a look at the MW forum, so many user still got problems in network rendering.