[Lynchon]

Nice "thoughts"... but as Ton Rossendal once said:

-blender is not for everyone its just for enthusiasts.

Asking blender (community) to solve license issues or integrate itself into profesional pipelines will never give optimal results because they have opposite objectives, profesional tools wants to have the job done as fast as posible and with the best results while blender just wants to play and have fun, again im not judging the quality of each tool but its philosophy.

And that is why maxwell will never be fully integrated into blender unless nextlimit takes the control over its plugin and accepts loosing money developing it.

And those were my thoughts...thanks for reading

[seghier]

bmaxwell is great plugin ; but the problem is that blender always have new update every weeks and that need always new update of bmaxwell
if nildar stop his development of the plugin so we can't do anything

[Fernando Tella]

I'm quite surprised too about how easily the plugin breaks when upgrading to minor new versions. I don't know if it's something inherent to Blender or to plugin itself.

[seghier]

Hello; i contact Nildar and he will release the new version of plugin the next week or this week and he will try to implement Maxwell Fire.
he can't post here because the forum allow posting for licensed users only

[seghier]

Bmaxwell have new update

[tom]

he can't post here because the forum allow posting for licensed users only

No, it's not the reason. I wanted to give him hand for several times on this matter but he insisted on rejecting to get in touch with us.

[Rickyx]

Bmaxwell have new update

It does not work for me on Debian linux64 and Blender 2.67b. You managed to use it?

And, in the homepage the license I see is GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2) but I can't find anywhere the source code of pymaxwell.so: I'm I missing something?

Thank you,
Riccardo

[seghier]

i use windows 7 . i have problem with particles
about the license you can ask the developper in blenderartists forum

[Rickyx]

Ok, I read that pymaxwell.so is the one provided by Next Limit, I thought it was a different version.

[Fernando Tella]

Ok, I read that pymaxwell.so is the one provided by Next Limit, I thought it was a different version.

Do you still have in mind developing your Blender plugin, Rickyx?

[Asmithey]

I had been using Form-Z as my main app with Maxwell Render since 2006. I started learning Blender in 2010, and when the Bmaxwell add-on was released, Blender became my main app and Form-Z my supplemental app. So now I do rely on the Bmaxwell add-on. As others have stated, it is a well integrated add-on. I have never had any real problems using it and N.Ildar has been great at addressing any bugs. Pure speculation here, but I think when the time is right N.Ildar will approach Next Limit about the add-on. I know NL has extended themselves to N.Ildar about the add-on. When the time comes and N.Ildar approaches NL, I hope NL will still be willing to work something out for the future of the add-on.

[Rickyx]

Ok, I read that pymaxwell.so is the one provided by Next Limit, I thought it was a different version.

Do you still have in mind developing your Blender plugin, Rickyx?

This is the script: https://github.com/al3p/BtoMW
The development is now stopped because I can't fund the project and nobody showed interest.
I'm still using this script as I don't need "special features" (ex. particles) and my workflow is still fitting: specially the assignation by material name is quite useful.

Of course B-Maxwell has a huge amount of features that leaks in BtoMW.

If someone wants to continue the job is welcome, by his own hand or contacting Alessandro (I suppose he's available for continuing).
Fell free to ask further details.

Have a nice day,
Riccardo

[tom]

I know NL has extended themselves to N.Ildar about the add-on. When the time comes and N.Ildar approaches NL, I hope NL will still be willing to work something out for the future of the add-on.

Good news! We are finally in touch with N.Ildar and I'm happy to announce this here. Currently, we have a lot of internal changes in SDK as we're working on v3. So, he will join and keep his good work when we're ready to share these new changes with him. Therefore, he won't lose time with building more stuff on obsolete methods. Thanks for your patience...

[Fernando Tella]

Those are great news! Thanks Tom, N.Ildar and Next Limit.

[AndreD]

I know NL has extended themselves to N.Ildar about the add-on. When the time comes and N.Ildar approaches NL, I hope NL will still be willing to work something out for the future of the add-on.

Good news! We are finally in touch with N.Ildar and I'm happy to announce this here. Currently, we have a lot of internal changes in SDK as we're working on v3. So, he will join and keep his good work when we're ready to share these new changes with him. Therefore, he won't lose time with building more stuff on obsolete methods. Thanks for your patience...

Thats great!
Now, I switched from Cinema broadcast to Blender and I really like (love) it.
So much features I'm missing in C4d broadcast, upgrading to C4d studio is no alternative for me, because the most stuff like
fluids, sculpting and physics are just fun for me without any payment.
Off course, I'll keep cinema but I'm doing a lot of stuff in blender now and it makes a lot of fun
Fire would be cool!

Great news!!