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Hi all

I have encountered a problem of after i set the camera as cplane_top (no perspective) and zoom into the model as close as possible to fill up the screen, the m~r render came out as the model became super small in the middle of the image, hence the quality became soo poor as its very small, whats the issue here? and i also found out the rendering isn't a exact top view, but a slight perpective view. Wonder how M~R translate the camera from rhino to itself. any hints? TIA!!!

screenshot of my expected view



render of m~r, the model became sooo small, output setting 1600*1600, notice the wall here is fatter than the top view in rhino

I don't have problem with rendering from rhino perspective views

i don't think you'll be able to render orthographic yet.

thats a pity!! really looking forward into the beta verion to be included orthogonal view rendering!!

at the moment, the only way i found to get rid of the perspective is to set the camera focal length to a very high value, like 1000+ to have a super telescope lens.

thanks tom to let me know

you can also get rid of perspective with a big lens like 135 mm or more.

As tom mentioned, orthographic views are not supported at this time.

Hi, the issue is that an orthographic view doesn't get on well with maxwell philosophy. Maxwell tries to simulate the real works as accurate as possible so always needs a finite point of view, because that's the best approach to the real life. Orthographic views are an abstraction, a view type that we can't see out of our papers or computers. You are true, the only way to approach a view of this type in maxwell is placing the camera so far a way and setting a huge focal length.

adehus wrote:Hi Juan-

I've followed this thread with interest, because I see orthographic rendering as essential for architectural visualization. Obviously orthographics don't really mesh with the approach Maxwell takes towards rendering, but is it possible to create a special lens or separate 'camera' that could render orthographics? It would be a big hurdle to overcome for archviz users if they had to render their orthos with a different render engine than what they use their perspectives.

Set your viewport camera lens-length to 1e+006

adehus wrote:Hi Juan-
is it possible to create a special lens or separate 'camera' that could render orthographics? It would be a big hurdle to overcome for archviz users if they had to render their orthos with a different render engine than what they use their perspectives.

Hi adelhus,
Architectural visualization is very important for us. We will study hard your suggestions.

that will be great!! Juan

people in my school ( the architectural association school of architecture in london) are getting more and more interested in M~R after i promoted as this is a loooong waiting program for accruate computer simulations which we highly demand. i will second adehus' request!

Just to add to the architecture comments. Ortho views are just as important in consumer product design. Usually a client is given renderings with a layout of top, front, and side. Then a larger perspective view somewhere on the same page. Thanks for the help on this NL team. Greatly appreciated.