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Hello!

We have just released a new version of the plugin for Rhino 6: Maxwell 4 | Rhinoceros 4.2.6.1
It makes the plugin more stable and fixes and improves several things, however, the issue with Windows 7 and 8.1 is still there. It's not an easy-to-solve problem related to Microsoft Redistributable files which we hope to solve soon.

As always you can find it at the portal: https://portal.nextlimit.com

These are the release notes:

Maxwell 4 | Rhinoceros V6 4.2.6.1
Publish date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019

Improvements:

• The Font for Maxwell controls has been changed to match better the default Rhino UI and also because it has better readability.
• If the current environment is a Rhino environment, it is also exported to Maxwell. It translates the color but if a texture exists it is translated as IBL.
• Rhino sun change updates the displayed Maxwell Environment (under the Rhino Render view too).
• Rhino sun automatically converted even if the actual Environment is not Maxwell Environment.
• Render Wallpaper environment mode is exported to Maxwell as IBL environment with a planar background (in Maxwell it is always stretched to fit the render frame).
• In the case of a FIRE error or warning, the viewport status shows that we have Error/Warning message from FIRE. By clicking on it a message dialog appears with the FIRE message.
• In case of a FIRE error the displayed FIRE screen is black.
• Better warning or error messages.
• "Maxwell Referenced" material has its own type icon.
• The create NEW mxm material button opens now the newly created material automatically in Mxed.

Fixes:

• In Maxwell Render meshes were in wrong positions.
• Maxwell export with a named view(s) could crash Rhino.
• Maxwell Environment Sun date/time (with some localized formats) could crash Rhino.
• Maxwell placed the objects in the wrong position during dynamic transforms (depends on scene base scale).
• Rhino materials were not exported (in non-English Rhino versions).
• Typo "Pin Holde" -> "Pin Hole".
• Rhino viewports were full black after Maxwell Fire was used and after that, a new scene (or other scenes) was opened.

Changes:

• Rhino sun Enabled status is used if Maxwell Environment uses Rhino sun.
• The "Maxwell Material" name has changed to "Maxwell Referenced".
• In the case a Rhino environment is used (not Maxwell) and there is a background image, the plugin converts it to IBL and uses the image for all the IBL channels.

Known issues:

• The plugin is still crashing Rhino on Windows 7 or 8.1 because of a problem with Microsoft Redistributable files. We'll try to workaround this in the next version.