[Maxer]

Here is the new link, I have also replaced the old link in my original post with this new one.

DivShare File - Sequence_02.wmv

[oracio]

Hi Maxer, did you use any compressors for the video?
if you did, which? because for 3 minutes it's in a very good size...

[Maxer]

Yes I used the Windows Media Video 9 codec but the trick is the average video bitrate it needs to be at least 5000 Kbps.

[abgrafx3d]

Wow - really nice stuff! I agree about the trees but again great stuff!

[sandykoufax]

Very nice work, mate.

[Fernando Tella]

Great job!

There's a lot of work put in this job.

[ivox3]

hey Captain Render, ...

...a herculean effort I'd say.

[Maxer]

Thanks

[lsega77]

Maxer could you share with us a little bit of your workflow...

you seem to be one of only a handful that are doing animations. I know you have an extensive 'farm' to work with but who easy/difficult is it to set up animation with maxwell?

I'd like to get into animating in maxwell but at this point I'm not sure if this is something I can realistically pursue with my limited resources.

Nice Work on the anim by the way!

Luis

[Maxer]

Maxer could you share with us a little bit of your workflow...

you seem to be one of only a handful that are doing animations. I know you have an extensive 'farm' to work with but who easy/difficult is it to set up animation with maxwell?

I'd like to get into animating in maxwell but at this point I'm not sure if this is something I can realistically pursue with my limited resources.

Nice Work on the anim by the way!

Luis

Ok, well one of the biggest issues you have to deal with is exporting your frames and where you will store them. This animation had about 5000 frames which all total was about 488 GB of information. I have a specific hard drive that I use only for exporting MXS files; this drive needs to be pretty fast because you will spend a significant amount of time writing those files to the drive. On average each frame took about 30 seconds to export from Max, needless to say I spent hours and hours just waiting for the frames to export. You also have to deal with the fact that due to some memory leak in the Maxwell plugin when exporting Max becomes unstable. Sometimes Max would crash after exporting 100 or so frames, other times it would crash after exporting 1 frame.

After you get the frames exported you have to submit them to render which is the easy part, once they begin rendering is when you have to watch out. Most of the time if I had a job that had 200 frames about 1/3 of those frames would fail for what ever reason. The only way to fix this problem is to submit each frame individually for re-rendering. I can't tell you how much I want a system like Backburner for Maxwell, it's ability to pick up dropped frames and re-render them, or the way it will only use a defective computer so many times before it quits sending frames to it. Those kind of features really need to be implemented into Maxwell's render manager.

[lsega77]

Maxer could you share with us a little bit of your workflow...

you seem to be one of only a handful that are doing animations. I know you have an extensive 'farm' to work with but who easy/difficult is it to set up animation with maxwell?

I'd like to get into animating in maxwell but at this point I'm not sure if this is something I can realistically pursue with my limited resources.

Nice Work on the anim by the way!

Luis

Ok, well one of the biggest issues you have to deal with is exporting your frames and where you will store them. This animation had about 5000 frames which all total was about 488 GB of information. I have a specific hard drive that I use only for exporting MXS files; this drive needs to be pretty fast because you will spend a significant amount of time writing those files to the drive. On average each frame took about 30 seconds to export from Max, needless to say I spent hours and hours just waiting for the frames to export. You also have to deal with the fact that due to some memory leak in the Maxwell plugin when exporting Max becomes unstable. Sometimes Max would crash after exporting 100 or so frames, other times it would crash after exporting 1 frame.

After you get the frames exported you have to submit them to render which is the easy part, once they begin rendering is when you have to watch out. Most of the time if I had a job that had 200 frames about 1/3 of those frames would fail for what ever reason. The only way to fix this problem is to submit each frame individually for re-rendering. I can't tell you how much I want a system like Backburner for Maxwell, it's ability to pick up dropped frames and re-render them, or the way it will only use a defective computer so many times before it quits sending frames to it. Those kind of features really need to be implemented into Maxwell's render manager.

wow... I guess this puts me far from being able to do anims with maxwell then... online farms just seem waaaay tooo expensive.

seriously, thanks for the info Maxer! much appreciated.

Luis

[creasia]

I must say that you have accomplished a huge task in Maxwell!

Still my choice of renderer would be Vray for animations. The fan motion blur and the noise on the exercise room floor would have been fixed nicely. I would like to see an option to blend the technologies used in the Vray irradiance map and the maxwell points of light system.

Someone has to do the ground work in maxwell though. You are to be commended.