[F. Tella]

Hello everybody!

We are glad to announce that we have uploaded a new Beta version of what will be Maxwell 3.2.

This latest version is named 3.1.99.10 and includes several bug fixes.

You can get it from the Early Builds site, here: http://www.maxwellrender.com/betas/plugin/22

We will be happy to hear your impressions and suggestions.

Best regards,

Fernando


Maxwell 3.1.99.10 release notes:

MAXWELL

- Fixed bug in nested dielectrics that could generate rendering artifacts
- Volumetrics: fixed bug with transparencies
- Volumetrics: density scale was not working properly
- Improvement: "remove overlapped" instances in maxwell scatter now removes less instances that are not really overlapping.
- Fixed bug when layers had different bit depth than the main image
- Lat-Long and Stereo Fish lens: Fixed a few issues. Parallax max value has been changed from 360 to 100000. Lens separation units is in centimeters for both lenses now.
- Performance of ortho lenses with spot lights improved
- Fixed aliasing issues with color multilight and some emitter types
- Maxwell Sea: Fixed tiling artifacts
- Fixed potential issue rendering hair with textures
- Changed max value of temperature emitters from 1E4 to 1E5
- Linux: if MAXWELL_HONOR_UMASK env variable is set to 1, then do not change the permissions of the written mxs and mxm files as created with the user umask.
- Pymaxwell: fixed crash getting null mxparamlist objects.

STUDIO

- Added shortcuts to open all the panels (Alt + 1, Alt + 2, etc)
- Cleaning of some obsolete parameters in the preferencies dialog
- Fixed issues recalculating/reversing normals when FIRE was running
- Fixed some minor gui issues