Support for Maxwell Renderer?
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stephenbuck
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Support for Maxwell Renderer?
Does anyone know if there is support for the Maxwell renderer available or in development? I'm currently using DXF, but tighter integration would be really cool!
External Rendering API
Hi,
From what I know the rendering system just underwent an extensive re-write but the external rendering api (which is what you would need to use Maxwell, plus a plugin from Maxwell I supose, to get really tight integration) hasn't been written yet, though it is up as an idea for the Google 2006 Summer of Code. But I don't see any SoC projects listed yet.
There's some good information on what Ton did for the rendering re-write though if you'd like to take a look:
http://www.blender.org/cms/Changes_sinc ... 727.0.html
loos
From what I know the rendering system just underwent an extensive re-write but the external rendering api (which is what you would need to use Maxwell, plus a plugin from Maxwell I supose, to get really tight integration) hasn't been written yet, though it is up as an idea for the Google 2006 Summer of Code. But I don't see any SoC projects listed yet.
There's some good information on what Ton did for the rendering re-write though if you'd like to take a look:
http://www.blender.org/cms/Changes_sinc ... 727.0.html
loos
Maybe this doesn't answer your question directly, but you may want to look into the freeware opponent of Maxwell; Indigo
If you look at the gallery, you'll see the quality of the renders are very high - it's a nice program to play with (especially since it doesn't cost anything!).
Together with some other people I wrote an exporter, which you can download from the wiki: http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/ ... o_exporter
The beta version is much improved (much faster, hdr environments and more realistic camera), but I didn't update the exporter yet...
If you look at the gallery, you'll see the quality of the renders are very high - it's a nice program to play with (especially since it doesn't cost anything!).
Together with some other people I wrote an exporter, which you can download from the wiki: http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/ ... o_exporter
The beta version is much improved (much faster, hdr environments and more realistic camera), but I didn't update the exporter yet...
This is a new version, but you need to add HDR environments manually to the xml (see the 0.5beta post for instructions)
Indigo 0.5beta exporter
have fun!
Indigo 0.5beta exporter
have fun!
stephenbuck, sorry to go on this Indigo / OT, but it's a fascinating renderer.
Inktvlek given that I tried every version of the exporter I found since you guys started it, I found that there is always something missing (I edit the xml by hand, so that's a detail). Then, the problem is that after the warmup, it crashes, and the log doesn't inform me much about what's going on. Maybe the parameters I set by hand in the XML files are absurd (I tried different things though).
Here are the 2 I add / hand:
<lens_radius>1</lens_radius>
<angle_of_view>36</angle_of_view>
Inktvlek given that I tried every version of the exporter I found since you guys started it, I found that there is always something missing (I edit the xml by hand, so that's a detail). Then, the problem is that after the warmup, it crashes, and the log doesn't inform me much about what's going on. Maybe the parameters I set by hand in the XML files are absurd (I tried different things though).
Here are the 2 I add / hand:
<lens_radius>1</lens_radius>
<angle_of_view>36</angle_of_view>