Maxwell Render

[Roger Evans]

This link was posted by Mr GG at RevitCity

Superb stuff produced on Maxwell ~

Posted Tuesday Oct 26th, 2004 - 5:33 AM


Take a look on what you can get using this new renderer:
http://www.maxwellrender.com/
A renderer made for architects...
If only Revit could use it!

[hand471037]

impressive stuff indeed. Can't beat those Physically accurate rendering engines!

Says it will be available for Max & Maya, and it sounds like it uses similar tech to the open-source Radiance. Cool stuff! If the plug-in works for Max, then this could be a very good way to go for rendering... either that or the plug-in for Max that allows for you to use Radiance as a plug-in as well. Both would be accessible ways of getting physically accurate renderings!

[flaviusb]

That is some cool software. I think that for the money, it does more than expected. Do you know if you can export from Revit to Maxwell? Thanks for the link.

[hand471037]

it better, it costs $1000 and is nothing more than a rendering engine. :D

Add to that the cost of MAX ($3000) and it's starting to look like a bit of money. Additionally, these physically-based rendering engines tend to be slower in my experance than the more traditional ones. Mental Ray, Radiance, Yafray... all take longer, but can do just gourgous stuff. The only GI or Physically-based render engine I can think of that's fast (and doesn't use custom hardware) is Vray. But I haven't seen the benchmarks on Photorealistic Renderman yet, either. So that's a concertation, I didn't see anything about the time it took to render those frames, and I know that in Radiance those frames would have taken a lonnng time...

And it looks like it will only have links to Max and Maya when it first comes out, so no direct Revit link.

[Roger Evans]

They do ask what platform you want to use Maxwell On ... so If we all lobby them likewhat I did ....

They also claim to be fast depending on processors etc

but other than that I have no idea and bow to your experience .. but I have noted all renders are hard with no plants or landscaping yet .. still very interesting though

[Kroke]

Read what others have to say about it here:
http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/newsfeed.asp?nid=2269

[Mr Spot]

[Moderator note: No Mr. Spot's question isn't as strange as it seems appearing here...his new thread was merged into this existing one]

Has anyone had a look at the new rendering engine plugin for a variety of CAD packages called Maxwell Render. Images are incredible!!

www.maxwellrender.com (http://www.maxwellrender.com/) :!:

[Arnel Aguel]

There seems to be no information on render time yet. This is a new plug-in renderer which has not been tested in actual production yet unlike the rest Vray, Final render, Brazil etc.

I'm very skeptical on this one and will just wait and see how it performs in actual production.

[hand471037]

Yeah, lots of folks over there are wondering the same thing I am: GI, which 'fakes' global light (think Vray, Mental Ray, ect) is fast and looks great; Physically-Acurate renderings (Radiance) which don't fake anything are slow (unless running on specialized hardware, like a FinalRender box or Pure card) but look great. So guess which one is used for most businesses? ;) Fast and Great, or Slow and Better? People only go for the second when they have too, unless they are fools like me. :D

[GuyR]

Lots of options for rendering at the moment. here's another one:

http://lucille.sourceforge.net/

Guy