Any features you'd like to see implemented into Maxwell?
By iandavis
#35806
1. This should be an easy one, and if I have somehow missed if this request actually can be done, please someone tell me.
- The ability to mix textures together! Aluminum-glass. A simple blending tool (like Lightwave morph) could allow users to create textures coming out of their eyeholes! Without the addition of a huge array of different stand-alone textures. By blending glass and Cobalt together you could get tinted metalized glass! The combinations are endless. I'm assuming by with my rudimentary understand of mathmatics that such a thing wouldn't be too difficult, though I could be enirely wrong! Oh, and the main reason I thought of this... Can't make a glowing object... glowing plastic for starters.

2. A little help for outdoors. This rendering engine has the potential to create actually photorealistic scenery, however a little dash of vue would make this a superpower tool. IE> Skys. Even support for a photographic dome. Stars! Clouds, with shadows... I don't care how it's done, we will shoulder the work, but if there is a little crack for us to squeeze through, we will find a way.. But perhaps start with a bitmap skydome 'slot' and a colour control for the sun... this would go oh so far.

3. Proceedural textures. A bump, roughness (specular/reflection), glow and colour support for a bunch of basic mathmatical textures... This of course would allow us to add much needed randomness to textures... OH displacement... forgot that.

There are a bunch of others... but people have mentioned those a bunch already... so these are the ones I noticed most.

cheers, and yes... I know it's a beta, so this is something to think about for the future. Like version standalone v2 ;P
By iandavis
#36321
I figured so...

Since I'm a serious newbie with maxwellrender, and have been using Lightwave since V5.6 I thot it might be a good thing to mention what immediately struck me.

Maybe the info would be of some use to the developers.

I'm glad these features will be available... I am very excited about the prospect of using this app when mature! I can only dream and anticipate the imagery I can start to create.
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