Maxwell 1.6

Maxer · November 27th, 2007

Well it's out and from what I've heard it's a descent update. Displacement and instancing were the big features this time along with the changing of the physical sky back to blue. I'm holding off installing it until it's been out a few weeks and I know it works but from what I've heard it's pretty solid. Those of you who have been following Maxwell from the beginning, do you think it’s living up to what was promised or is it falling short?

Fran · November 27th, 2007

I think Maxwell is pretty much feature-complete for what was promised for V1. Although there are two or three things missing, they have a respectable program. I wouldn't call it revolutionary, even though they do.

CHE · November 27th, 2007

I installed 1.6 today and I have to say that I was surprised to find out that it actually works as promised for a change. I was able to import a model I did in Modo into Studio and rendered an almost clean 15 min exterior test out of it. I haven't experienced any crashes so far. Studio looks a lot more friendly and it is actually intuitive. I still have to try the new features. I will continue to test it over the next couple of days. I am very happy with this release so far.

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del82 · November 28th, 2007

Everybody seems to be talking about displacements in MW forum, sorry for asking but dosent FRY already have this nice feature?

lambros · November 28th, 2007

yep, along with instances. But after buying and fiddling around with all these renderers, I have to say that most of my clients prefer vray renders. Maxwell and Fry are stable enough to be used for almost anything, but I do all architectural renders with vray and leave any industrial design to unbiased renderers...
Displacement in Maxwell 1.6. is nice, but in order to use it along with multilight in a 3K render requires a hell of a workstation

CHE · November 28th, 2007

Well I am liking this release a lot. Studio is very stable. I haven't had any crashes so far. Here is a quick test a did last night. I'll post more later.

Maxer · November 28th, 2007

How is the speed? They said that 1.6 would be faster than 1.5, is that true?

CHE · November 28th, 2007

It seems a faster to me specially the Voxelization process; it only takes a couple of seconds.

stuart mayes · November 28th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Maxer

How is the speed? They said that 1.6 would be faster than 1.5, is that true?

I think it will depend on your system, but on my Opteron platform running Vista64 it's about 25%-30% faster than 1.5.

Devin, I had the upgrade successfully ported to my small farm [10-nodes] in about an hour, ran the first half-dozen scenes through and nothing's tripped over yet........so far it looks good.

Maxer · November 28th, 2007

That's good news; I'll probably get it online by the beginning of next year. Right now I'm doing everything in Vray which has turned out to be a wonderful change, I can actually render out stuff in a few hours instead of days!

November 27th, 2007	#1 (permalink)
Maxer Moderator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: USA Age: 34 Posts: 2,491 Name: Devin Johnston	Maxwell 1.6 Well it's out and from what I've heard it's a descent update. Displacement and instancing were the big features this time along with the changing of the physical sky back to blue. I'm holding off installing it until it's been out a few weeks and I know it works but from what I've heard it's pretty solid. Those of you who have been following Maxwell from the beginning, do you think it’s living up to what was promised or is it falling short? __________________ “There is no spoon” http://devinjohnston.cgsociety.org/gallery/

November 27th, 2007	#2 (permalink)
Fran Moderator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 1,379 Name: Frances Gainer Davey	Re: Maxwell 1.6 I think Maxwell is pretty much feature-complete for what was promised for V1. Although there are two or three things missing, they have a respectable program. I wouldn't call it revolutionary, even though they do. __________________ - Fran If you must reinvent the wheel, remember that it works best if it is, like, roundish.

November 27th, 2007	#3 (permalink)
CHE Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: St. Louis Posts: 818 Name: Ernesto Pacheco	Re: Maxwell 1.6 I installed 1.6 today and I have to say that I was surprised to find out that it actually works as promised for a change. I was able to import a model I did in Modo into Studio and rendered an almost clean 15 min exterior test out of it. I haven't experienced any crashes so far. Studio looks a lot more friendly and it is actually intuitive. I still have to try the new features. I will continue to test it over the next couple of days. I am very happy with this release so far. E

November 28th, 2007	#4 (permalink)
del82 Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Croatia Age: 74 Posts: 512 Name: Mario Pende	Re: Maxwell 1.6 Everybody seems to be talking about displacements in MW forum, sorry for asking but dosent FRY already have this nice feature? __________________ Beeeee!

November 28th, 2007	#5 (permalink)
lambros Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Athens Age: 35 Posts: 337 Name: Lambros Potamianos	Re: Maxwell 1.6 yep, along with instances. But after buying and fiddling around with all these renderers, I have to say that most of my clients prefer vray renders. Maxwell and Fry are stable enough to be used for almost anything, but I do all architectural renders with vray and leave any industrial design to unbiased renderers... Displacement in Maxwell 1.6. is nice, but in order to use it along with multilight in a 3K render requires a hell of a workstation

November 28th, 2007	#7 (permalink)
Maxer Moderator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: USA Age: 34 Posts: 2,491 Name: Devin Johnston	Re: Maxwell 1.6 How is the speed? They said that 1.6 would be faster than 1.5, is that true? __________________ “There is no spoon” http://devinjohnston.cgsociety.org/gallery/

November 28th, 2007	#8 (permalink)
CHE Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: St. Louis Posts: 818 Name: Ernesto Pacheco	Re: Maxwell 1.6 It seems a faster to me specially the Voxelization process; it only takes a couple of seconds.

November 28th, 2007	#10 (permalink)
Maxer Moderator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: USA Age: 34 Posts: 2,491 Name: Devin Johnston	Re: Maxwell 1.6 That's good news; I'll probably get it online by the beginning of next year. Right now I'm doing everything in Vray which has turned out to be a wonderful change, I can actually render out stuff in a few hours instead of days! __________________ “There is no spoon” http://devinjohnston.cgsociety.org/gallery/

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