Re: is Maxwell Render abandoned?
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:14 am
I have mixed impressions too. On the one side I am happy to see that Maxwell is still alive. On the other side V4 upgrade was absolutely wasted money for me. There is no difference between V3 and V4 in features except denoiser and VERY limited GPU engine. I bought V4 studio and rhino plugin. Rhino plugin is still unfinished for Rhino 6 (almost 2 years). And since I have still problems to use V3 and V4 simultaneously, I am using just V3.
This time I will wait and think twice before upgrade. Finished GPU engine is nice for sure (promissed in V4), but it is not the reason for me to upgrade. As seghier said "i hope see other new features". If there will be speed improvement in rendering indirect seen caustic of parallel or almost parallel lights (known problem since alpha - as sun caustic seen through dielectrics, or in mirror). Now to see it I have to wait years for full HD image of SL40. It was also promissed in the end of 2005 (do you remember RS2 engine? search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keyw ... e&start=45 , especially viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10889).
Also there was some words from NL back then here on the forum viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10185 . It was very polite from Victor. We felt very important as a customers. They gave us 4 licenses of V1 instead of one as a compensation.
Times have changed a lot, but I am trying to stay optimistic. Please Victor and NL team - stay with the philosophy to developing breakthrough tool for simulating reality. Don`t just count the numbers, but give it a passion as you did in the past.
Patrik
This time I will wait and think twice before upgrade. Finished GPU engine is nice for sure (promissed in V4), but it is not the reason for me to upgrade. As seghier said "i hope see other new features". If there will be speed improvement in rendering indirect seen caustic of parallel or almost parallel lights (known problem since alpha - as sun caustic seen through dielectrics, or in mirror). Now to see it I have to wait years for full HD image of SL40. It was also promissed in the end of 2005 (do you remember RS2 engine? search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keyw ... e&start=45 , especially viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10889).
Also there was some words from NL back then here on the forum viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10185 . It was very polite from Victor. We felt very important as a customers. They gave us 4 licenses of V1 instead of one as a compensation.
Times have changed a lot, but I am trying to stay optimistic. Please Victor and NL team - stay with the philosophy to developing breakthrough tool for simulating reality. Don`t just count the numbers, but give it a passion as you did in the past.
Patrik