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It would be great to send a render straight from 3ds to Maxwell render, (network) by-passing export as mxm.
Use 'tiles' map in displacement and bump
use Proxy objects
Non renderable objects/ geometry for shadow and or reflection only
Keep up the great work NL and all the supporting crew and moderators

sorry that was ment to end up in the wishlist.....newbe!

3DML wrote:It would be great to send a render straight from 3ds to Maxwell render, (network) by-passing export as mxm.

This is not possible yet, but we'll look into it.

3DML wrote: Use 'tiles' map in displacement and bump

Maxwell doesn't support any kind of procedurals, so this is not possible.

3DML wrote: use Proxy objects

You mean for instances?

3DML wrote: Non renderable objects/ geometry for shadow and or reflection only

The following settings are relevant to this:
- "visible to camera" and "visible to reflection/refraction" in the "general" tab of the object properties window
- "hidden to global illumination" in the "Maxwell" tab of the object properties window

If you wanna using procedurals of 3dsmax, just render it to bitmap with Render Map function at material editor. That is not a perfect but the only solution so far.

"If you wanna using procedurals of 3dsmax, just render it to bitmap with Render Map function at material editor. That is not a perfect but the only solution so far."

Thank you sandykoufax thats a great idea!!


"You mean for instances?"

My mistake I did some testing last night and got it to work!
(not neccessarily, I was thinking you couldn't make objects non- 'visible to reflection/ refraction' 'cast shadows' etc, but this does work in Maxwell, I sometimes like to put geometry etc behind the camera to be picked up in reflections of windows and glass,)
however, my other challenge is I can't seem to get the Alpha only to cast a shadow, the geometry seems to override the alpha, but I have found a crazy work-around by applying it to clear glass.
Thanks for your feedback Mihnea :D