Experiencing Maxwell Render Plugin for Daz Studio

LpProject

Glad to show my latest render done in Maxwell Render 3.2.0

For exporting scene to Maxwell Render I use my own developed plugin(now in alpha stage) - Maxwell Render Plugin for Daz Studio

In scene I use only environment IBL. All Default material(autoconverted from Daz Studio materials).

FSMCDesigns

very nice! Since maxwell was the first renderer I ever used, I would be interested in this, but the $1000 price tag might keep me from using it. Look forward to seeing your progress though.

LpProject

Thanks.

About cost of Maxwell, I agree with You.

But, I think Maxwell Render is for real connoisseurs of big quality

joseft

I've always been awed at the results that can be achieved with Maxwell. But after speaking to some artists that use it, and learning about how slow it is.....hard to cope with that coming from the speed from a GPU powered engine like Octane and iRay. One told me that most of his renders are around 24 hours of render time - and that is with a 4-machine render farm. The average user with an average desktop CPU wouldnt stand a chance.

But i did hear that Maxwell are working on either GPU acceleration, or another version powered entirely by GPU. That would be worth the price tag then. at least for me.

LpProject

Render that I show take 500 minute render time on my own desktop pc (Intel Core i7-2600 3.40GHz)

 

wolf359

I still have Maxwell 1.7 collecting dust ony my intel mac.

Shame to see it still  remains ridiculously slow here in this era

of faster & freely available PBR's ...oh well

nicstt

LpProject said:

Thanks.

About cost of Maxwell, I agree with You.

But, I think Maxwell Render is for real connoisseurs of big quality

Is it because it is better?

Or, is it because those that buy it have greater skill (and commitment considering they invested $1000) and knowledge and are thus able to utilise its features to a greater extent.

I see renders done in other engines of equal merit.

jamesl767

Excellent when can we expect to try your plug-in . I've been using Maxwell render for quite some time it's an extremely powerful robust renderer you can do things like deep compositing and masks stuff that iRay can't touch

Serene Night

Looks okay, but can't you get similar results in other render engines? 

Gator

nicstt said:

LpProject said:

Thanks.

About cost of Maxwell, I agree with You.

But, I think Maxwell Render is for real connoisseurs of big quality

Is it because it is better?

Or, is it because those that buy it have greater skill (and commitment considering they invested $1000) and knowledge and are thus able to utilise its features to a greater extent.

I see renders done in other engines of equal merit.

That really makes you wonder, doesn't it?

After all, if a render is physically based, as long is it's accurately modeling light and how it behaves, then theoretically you would have the same output with the same input.  Of course, they are models of real light's behavior, but I'd imagine most are accurate enough to be unnoticeable to the human eye. 

I have Octane but haven't used it now for months getting myself familiar with Iray.  After spending time learning Iray and shaders, I don't think the results are much different.  For me, Iray wins hands-down with Studio for the simplified workflow.

jamesl767

It's not about quality because iray delivers fine quality in a fraction of the time. It's about flexibility. If I render and use it in something professional program like Nuke I need to render out, shadow passes reflection passes diffuse passes ambient inclusion passes ect.
If GPU style rendering packages had all these features the professionals would use this instead is a whole lot faster.

FSMCDesigns

jamesl767 said:

It's not about quality because iray delivers fine quality in a fraction of the time. It's about flexibility. If I render and use it in something professional program like Nuke I need to render out, shadow passes reflection passes diffuse passes ambient inclusion passes ect.
If GPU style rendering packages had all these features the professionals would use this instead is a whole lot faster.

the main point of using an unbiased renderer such as Maxwell, keyshot or Luxrender for me and probably many more is that you don't have to deal with passes or other composite effects since the lighting is as close to the real thing based on mathematical radiance approximation. If I was using a program like Nuke, it wouldn't really matter what renderer i was using as long as i got the types of images I needed, so biased would work also