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Maxwell for Rhino :: Maxwell Fire
The new Maxwell Fire interactive rendering feature is accessed using this window. Using Maxwell Fire, it is possible to view changes to
materials, environment, etc., interactively as you work with the model. This greatly improves the general Maxwell workflow, as it removes
the need to do many incremental exports and test renders.
The plugin’s Maxwell Fire window has been designed to provide this functionality in as simple a manner as possible. At the top of the
window you will find a toolbar which contains the three main commands used to control Maxwell Fire:
Enable Preview: enables and disables the engine; if Cache Meshes is disabled, disabling invalidates the scene
Refresh Scene: re-exports the scene, including changes to geometry, then re-starts the engine
Save Image to Disk: save the Fire-rendered image to disk (saves at the actual rendered resolution)
Enable in-viewport display: displays the rendered image directly in the appropriate application viewport
Lock to Current Camera: prevents the plugin from dynamically changing the camera to that of the current viewport
Additionally, the Fire window contains a context menu, which is available via right-click when Maxwell Fire is enabled. The options here
are fairly self-explanatory, as to their respective purposes:
SL: the sampling level at which the engine will stop rendering
Quality: the actual resolution at which to render; the image is interpolated to the Fire display size
Threads: the number of threads which will be used by the engine (zero means auto-detect)
General Notes on Maxwell Fire Usage
Maxwell Fire functionality is tightly integrated with the plugin Export option Cache Meshes. When Fire is active, the plugin’s behavior is
identical to what it would be when Cache Meshes is activated; the reason for this is that it is neither necessary nor desirable that the
scene’s geometry be re-exported, unless it has actually been altered. As such exporting an MXS, or rendering in Maxwell Render, when
Fire is active requires no unnecessary geometry-export.
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