Maxwell Render Suite 2.7

Product Description

A physically correct, unbiased rendering engine, Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 is capable of simulating light exactly as it behaves in the real world.

Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 can fully capture all light interactions between all elements in a scene no matter how complex they are, while offering a straightforward user interface and effective workflow through plug-ins to a large range of 3D and CAD applications.

Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 has been acclaimed as a landmark in next-generation rendering technology, having produced the best photo-realistic images to date, and continues as the leader in unbiased rendering for photo-realistic imagery and advanced lighting, especially in architecture, interior design, product design and film and TV production markets.

Key Features

Speed: There is a misconception that Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 is a slower render engine, albeit with higher quality results, than the competition. While it's true that in some scene set-ups Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 may be slower in render times than some of its rivals, in terms of end-to-end process Maxwell is unbeatable on fast, easy set-up and reliable first time results - saving your customers valuable people time! The entire Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 approach (real world camera, emitter and material parameters) is geared up to save your customers time on their projects by giving them accuracy, predictability and a fast, simple process. This means they don't waste valuable time endlessly tweaking dozens of parameters; just set up the scene with simple Maxwell settings - and move on to the next project! This simple, flexible workflow is ideally suited to the complex pipelines in VFX and animations, as well as producing the stunning visualizations for the Architecture and Design world that Maxwell is famous for.
Multi-processor, Multi-platform and Cross-platform: Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 can exploit all the processors available on your system, is compatible with Windows (32 and 64 bit), Mac OSX, and Linux (64 bits), and connects via plug-ins to the most popular 3D design and CAD applications.
Physical Sky System: The Physical Sky system in Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 uses a novel approach, offering a wide range of real-life and physically correct parameters to control the look of the sky and the subsequent lighting in the scene. Results range from common Earth values to exaggerated fantasy skies. Users can create pre-sets of sky settings to quickly load a new sky, or share their pre-sets with other users. It’s also possible to save the current sky as an HDRI map.
Multi-light: Don’t re-render – adjust the lights in real time. The Multi-light feature removes the need to re-render images when light changes are required; instead you can simply adjust the lights in real time. Multi-light allows the user to change intensities of individual lights and multiple scene emitters during and after the rendering process, eliminating the need to run various renders to tweak the lighting set up. This gives you infinite possibilities and you can save numerous different lighting versions of the same scene without rendering it over and over again. This feature is the first of its kind in a commercial render engine and it is extremely powerful.
Realistic Camera Model: Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 simulates a real camera with the associated parameters, such as f-stop, focal length, shutter-speed, etc. By using this type of camera model Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 can automatically simulate depth of field, natural 3d motion blur, and other effects. With Maxwell Render Suite 2.7’s camera model, it is very straightforward to match the lighting levels of a real photo with a render. If you are familiar with photography you will feel right at home!
Simulens: Advanced bloom and glare controls that bring a new level of realism and quality. SimuLens allows the user to define a pattern to simulate the shape of the camera diaphragm that will model the pattern of light reaching the camera film, creating realistic lens diffraction effects (glare). Users can add a second pattern which defines ‘obstacles’ in the lens such as dust, fingerprints or eyelashes adding to a more realistic diffraction effect.
Maxwell Materials: Based on real optical properties, creating unrivaled realism. The Maxwell Material Editor offers real-life parameters that define the materials in a natural and accurate way. It is possible to create Sub-Surface Scattering effects (see below), thin layers, light-emitting materials and advanced stacked materials. A large library with thousands of free, ready-to-use materials is also available.
Stacked Material System: A material in Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 can consist of several components, one stacked above the other much like layers in an image editing application. This makes it very easy and intuitive to create interesting and complex materials, such as a rust material showing through a car paint material, or applying a logo on top of a combination of different materials.
Sub-Surface Scattering (SSS): Sub-Surface Scattering (SSS) simulates the effect of light entering a translucent object and scattering inside it. It is a crucial component that allows users to accurately simulate many kinds of materials including plastics, marble, milk and skin. It can also simulate translucency for single sided surfaces, perfect for creating leaves, lamp shades, paper etc. The SSS component in Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 follows an entirely new approach compared to any other SSS system currently available, offering unprecedented, photo-realistic effects in material creation.
Maxwell Displacement: Displacement is a powerful texture-driven tool that can help users to create real geometric detail on objects on-the-fly while rendering. As opposed to many other displacement solutions currently available in the industry, Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 offers you its very own, unique displacement technology which is capable of simulating any detail without extra memory consumption.
Many of the other displacement methods presently offered, pre-tessellate the given geometry, which wastes a lot of memory resources before and during the render. Maxwell Displacement does not use triangle tessellation methods and does not prepare subdivided/tessellated geometry before rendering. In addition, Maxwell Displacement has very few parameters and is very comfortable to control.
Instances: Support for Instances means that you can have thousands of high polygon objects in your scene and Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 will render them using the same amount of memory as if you only had one of those objects in the scene. Instances are handled very well in Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 and are extremely useful to reproduce objects such as plants, bricks, stones and furniture.
Networking: In high-end productions, it is often necessary to distribute a render job over a number of machines in a farm to quickly obtain all the frames needed for a sequence or to calculate a very large image. Maxwell Render Suite 2.7’s networking capabilities are very powerful (more computers equals more speed in a very linear way), and very flexible - networking is multi-platform allowing a mixture of Windows, Mac and Linux systems to be connected together. The software’s wizard system makes setting a network job a straightforward task. With networking, you can tell Maxwell to render the same image on all your computers (cooperative rendering), or each computer can render one frame of an animation.
MMaxwell Render Suite 2.7 and RealFlow: Maxwell Render Suite 2.7 is compatible “out of the box” with Next Limit’s own RealFlow software, giving RealFlow users an option to use Maxwell as their render engine of choice. Procedural geometry and meshes can be generated at render time, and it is also possible to render individual fluid particles, resulting in an easy and accelerated workflow.