Maxwell 1.5

[travistlo]

Instead checking what is happening with Maxwell I'd take more attention to Fryrender....1.7 is out and it has displacement and something similar as Vrayproxy but you would able to have color variation in every instance.

Other than maxwell, or Fry, Modo seems to be stepping things up a bunch too. Now that they have animation, sculpting, and painting all in one package, i feel alot of people will be making a switch.

[voltron7]

Well, MW 1.5 has been out for a few days. There is already a 3 page topic in the MW forum of bugs and things that just don't work! Many are still pissed about 30 hour renderings at 640x480 that look like crap...What's with that company?
Each post I read over there makes me more happy I have Vray.

[beestee]

I jumped on the pre-order discount for fryrender just yesterday. I have been seeing a lot that I like about the developer and had been mulling the pre-order over for a while. This is my first personal render engine purchase. The company I work for owns VRay, but if I ever go out on my own, I will definately be purchasing myself a seat of VRay! Can't beat it in most aspects!

Can't wait to start playing with fryrender, just too busy this week to do anything with it(too busy playing with VRay )

[Giovanni]

Well I downloaded the Maxwell 1.5 demo, and I have to say (even looking at the tutorial videos) it is indeed a quite impressive piece of software.

I could open MW Studio, import a big DXF, throw a white material everywhere, set the sky, select the glass and apply a default glass material, hit render and...well, get a good preview in a minute or so.

The process seems like LC, with the image fading in slowly.
When you stop the rendering, you can ho in a multi light control panel and actually do lights emitters mixing in post...Turn them on off, tweak exposure, etc. Nice.

The MAX plagin is pretty owfull, but all things considered, the software do require minimal rendering settings to get cool imagery.

Drawbacks are license sold by CPU core! You get 4 cores per license (networked or not), and, of course, everything is maxwell specific, and it is faster to rebuild your scenes from scratch than convert anything to it.
Besides, it will take forever for any hires, large scenes...of course!

regards

gio

[Buck]

I lost track of maxwell. Even thought I have a license... Fry however, shows a lot of promising results. First of all displacement, fast render times..I think latest can have 3-4 hours and make a clean render....we will see...

same here! I have a license of MW (well, now I think I have 4-5 licenses or something like that? they keep on giving me more licenses, haha!) but I haven't used it since the beta. A. I just don't have much time to learn new software. I'm busy at work with Vray. B. the first release after the Beta was worse than the beta itself, so I just didn't touch it after that (not to mention the fact that I could only render on one machine with it!)

FR looks cool (isn't it made by some of the folks who made MW?), but I think I have come to the conclusion that I just don't like 'unbiased' rendering systems. To slow for me. If i want to wait 6 hours for a render that isn't really even complicated, it's going to be a print ready 4k render from Vray

[Morbid Angel]

you see, when I did buy a license of MW, it was unique, interesting as a renderer with "physicly correct" lighting and etc. No one has used gamma correction before, nor physical camera. The maxwell moved to another direction... one where it is now. And vray has taken more physicly accurate approach...made it a lot more appealing. No point in using maxwell now. Only for tests..