[F. Tella]

Hello!

Early Build 4.0.1.1 has been upgraded to "stable", so we have a new official version of Maxwell Studio, Maxwell Render and all the plugins.

I hope you enjoy it.

Warning: MXI backward compatibility broken due file format change. Older maxwell render are not able to open 4.0.1.1 MXI files.

You can get it from here: http://www.maxwellrender.com/betas/

And these are the releases notes:

4.0.1.1
Publish date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017

MAXWELL GPU
- Fixed bad MXI file saved when engine is GPU and normals channel is enabled. MXI backward compatibility broken due file format change. Older maxwell render are not able to open 4.0.1.1 MXI files.

MAXWELL RENDER
- CPU render engine performance improved about 10%. Now Maxwell 4 and Maxwell 3 has the same performance.

This are the release notes of previous Early Builds versions:


4.0.0.18
Publish date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017

MAXWELL GPU
- Linux supported.
- OSX supported.
- Improved emitter sampling and triangle artifact solved.
- Fixed crash with emitters and instances with motion blur.
- Fixed Stack overflow on high-depth voxelizations.
- Fixed clipmaps issues.
- Improved voxelization copy to GPU.
- Fixed memory crash with disabled BSDFs.
- Fixed crash when a coating is on a non active BSDF or when having a material with mixed active and non active BSDFs.
- Fixed Z channel through clipmaps. Normals channel has bad values in areas with no geometry.
- Fixed crash using default material in nogui mode.
- Fixed crash in scenes with no emitters (i.e. sky dome).

MAXWELL RENDER
- Fixed MXI batch processing is exporting channels when user unchecks the option to export them (in some cases).
- Fixed RGB numeric values displayed under mouse pointer (bottom status bar) have not gamma applied for bit-depth 8 and 16.
- Fixed switching from GPU engine, channels does not work on RS1.
- Software opengl DLL added to Windows installers. needed in some cases for old GPUs or remote desktops to show viewport.
- Fixed HDR sky changed to physical sky if using ortho lens, and emitters not reflecting on other objects.

ASSETREFERENCE EXTENSION
- Fixed Load of asset referencess for OSX

MAXWELL STUDIO
- Fixed layer transparency values updated wrong in interactive mode (GPU).
- In scenes in which the paths need a high number of bounces now it can be solved withouth affecting performance (GPU).

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4.0.0.12
Publish date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016

MAXWELL GPU
- Fixed bug in indirect lighting
- Fixed problem rendering some dielectric materials
- Fixed rendering artifacts that could show up depending on material settings.
- Fixed issues with opacity in materials with layers with more than one bsdf.
- Fixed issue with emitters hidden to camera
- Fixed tiling parameters were not working for global bump
- Fixed issues with clipmaps
- Fixed some stability issues
GENERAL
- Fixed command line help does not show all the render engine options.
- [OSX] Fixed assets loading