Updated 11 October 2016: Maxwell 4 is now shipping for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
#MAXWELL RHINO FOR MAC PLUGIN UPDATE#
The update will also introduce a new plugin live-linking Maxwell and Rhino for Mac, and update the renderer’s integration with Revit. Other new features in Maxwell 4 include an updated materials gallery, featuring a “hand-picked selection of … optimised Maxwell materials” ready to use in scenes.Īs well as searching by standard tags such as material type, Next Limit says that it will be possible to search by “performance level”, which suggests that it will be possible to control scene render times more actively.
The system increases scene file sizes and the RAM required to generate a render, but not render times. There’s a bit more information about the standalone version of Multilight, in the shape of the video above.Ī popular existing feature of Maxwell, the system stores the contribution from each light-emitting material in a scene as a separate buffer in the scene file, enabling users to tweak settings during and after rendering. Multilight becomes a standalone relighting tool You can find more details at the foot of the story. Updated 11 October: Actually, there are differences between the CPU and GPU render engines. GPU support represents a big change for Maxwell: previously, even its Fire render preview was CPU-based, with Next Limit preferring to support all the functionality of the final-quality render engine rather than adopting V-Ray’s approach of providing a GPU-accelerated preview supporting a restricted set of features. So far, Next Limit has only posted an outline of the new features, so we don’t have much info on the new GPU render engine, beyond the fact that it’s CUDA-based, and that it’s feature-equivalent to the CPU engine.Īccording to Next Limit: “All the technology under the hood is identical to the classic CPU engine.” Next Limit has unveiled Maxwell 4, the next major update to its physically based renderer, making relighting system Multilight a standalone application – and adding support for GPU rendering.Ī CUDA-based GPU implementation of Maxwell’s CPU tech Scroll down for news of the commercial release.
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