maxwell Render - first facts and screenshots

[lightpixel]

I have made some screenshots of the new maxwellrender...
first: it is in a very early alpha-stadium!
only works with maxwell materials, only sunlight or skydome-rendering
method...
standard max lights seems not supported!!!
..and much other limitations!
really nice thing, to set the rendertime!!


ok, here some screenshots of the mat-editor, and the rendersettings...

[jojo7077]

thanks lightpixel...

Thanks for the screen shot Lightpixel. Very interesting developments.

[tom schuelke]

HI very interisting.

Now whats your feeling about speed to Quality ?

Tom

[lightpixel]

hmhm...the speed, a good question!!

let me say so: the scene setup ist very easy! you have to adjust only a view parameters, inklusive caustics and gi caustics!!
for GI and GI-caustics, you just disable or enable TWO buttons!

the time you save for scene setup, you have to put in rendertime,
but you get a very quick preview, like the lightmap-renderer in Vray.
the entire rendering procedure is simular like lightmap in vray, without
second pass...

I will do some testrenderings tonight, so i can post tomorrow and the next days more images...


greetings
chris

p.s. for the last four hours working with maxwell, NO max-crash!!!

[Morbid Angel]

lightpixel does it say in command promt there that the render time for this scene is 10 minutes ??

[Nenad]

Hey thanks for the infos Chris! Could you please post just a finished image and it's render time?

[lightpixel]

@morbitangel:
that says, that I set the rendertime to 10 min.
I will upload some images today, but I can say, maxwell is very very slow,
if you want really smooth renderings like you know from vray

[samuel_bubat]

Hi there,

Thank You for the information !

What I´ve seen so far from Maxwell is nice.. but not very impressive !
Having a physical super correct renderer is great.. for scientists.
(We need more fake shaders in vray !! silent protest )

The most important things for me are speed, stability and compatibility.
Speed :After all that lightpixel said.. that point goes to vray.
Stability:I would be very interrested how Maxwell handles
very complex scenes 3mio polys (noninstanced) and above ?
Compatibility: Let´s see wich plugins are supported !

There seem to be some interesting features like the sky settings.
lightpixel: could you show some images using these sky features ?
Does it really render skies or is it just lighting ?
However.. if the sky doesn´t look similar like this
http://lucbianco.free.fr/index_en.html
I will still stay with Terragen and it´s HDR output anyway !

cheers

[photonC]

There are some pics and times at cgtalk:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php...4&page=1&pp=15
http://ixor.gr/maxwelltest/maxwell.htm

[lightpixel]

ok, here some two TEST-Renderings...

maximum rendertime: 1 hour!
both images rendered with the maxwell skylight system.
normal settings (20 bounces, direct on, indirect on, caustics and indirect caustics on)

see yourself, what happens: NOISE other all...
BUT, the lightsetup for rendering was done in 30 sec!!

I wrote an email to the maxwell support to get some answers:

they wrote me, that to reduce noise, increase the rendertime...haha!!
"...speed improvements will be implemented in the later versions..." fine
works with standart materials, but don´t use procedural maps like noise map and so...

[Morbid Angel]

well dont get me wrong I think pritty much every image gere looks photoreal or close enough, however these results can be achieved with vray or similar render with rendering times of 1% of that maxwell offers and that is a big minus for maxwell...were perhaps large studios with killer render farms will be able to afford it, small studios like ours probably wont...
But still interesting.

[finish]

20 Gi bounce with a direct computation renderer ...
try that in vray too before you scream.. i mean no lightmap no irradiance map, just brute force

[olivierfR]

image rendered by InTheCity, from the CGTalk forum

This looks pretty cool ! realistic light behaviour ( tint at least )
...but 5 hours !

[Mudvin]

I think 20 gi bounces will just wash out the image in Vray. Not sure though.

[percydaman]

hmmm...is it really that realistic? I mean you have a very bright window with even a key light showing. You would think the whole room would be brighter.