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Very nice render!

Well, it's Maxwell Render )
and, one of the most underrated features of the entire render engine - Coating. Love how it works

Yes and they're good for a lot of cases, and pretty flexible how you can set them up in the material system. Linking this in case you haven't seen Toms blog post about a different way to add coatings to a material:

http://blog.maxwellrender.com/tips/push ... materials/

Oh yeah! I've seen that. That's pretty cool.
Gonna give it another read. Lot's of takeaways there.

Thanks

great attention to detail in your images.
a joy to watch!

Thanks man appreciate your feedback

By the way if anyone interested, here is the simple Pearl material set up in Maxwell Render V4 - http://www.paramonov.me/uploads/4/9/3/7 ... ell_v4.zip (MXM file with couple textures)

Cheers,
Tim.

Added new image to the main post.

Again Base wood materials - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qGQee

Lightsabers (3D models) with Maxwell Materials - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0vD8V

Tiled materials (starwars 'ish inspired) - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LdzXR

Cheers.

added a few new images to the first post

Great work and attention to detail.

Added another image to the first post.
Oh boy, creation of materials never been easier

Beautiful Work! Thank you for posting all of these. Pleasing to look at.

Thanks man! appreciate your kind feedback

wow beautiful image ....
What do you think are the best reasons to go from Maxwell 4 to 5 ...

Leo

Thanks man

Well .. see I usually don't work in studio itself .. I mainly use Maya as my primary tool. When I was doing that image - there were no Maya plugin available so I've exported it to studio and rendered from there.

Can't say about previous versions - was not using it enough to say something for sure - but it definitely feels more stable. Especially FIRE preview is not crashing anymore. Altho I've noticed a habit after myself that before do FIRE I always save - muscle memory

I love new Substance Painter Material Assistant - that is just - I can't even spelled it out enough- it's amazing. That lightsaber scene on the first post (V5) has only 2 Maxwell materials and none of them even have a displacement. Both materials were created in literally less than 20 seconds.
Beside that .. colour randomiser (and uv randomiser) are big things - might look very niche - but it is a great thing to add that little bit of natural touch to the scenes - so that everything is just a tiny bit less than perfect.

So again - hard to say whether it is worth it for you to upgrade (for me, I'm on Mac so I'm not even benefiting from all the GPU craze) - overall feels fairly stable and .. I don't know maybe it is me (who want's to believe in brighter future) - but it does feels that everything renders slightly faster. I don't know - not sure - it's just feels that way. But that's a great feeling for sure

And, you know .. again - 500 euros .. - I'm sorry, but I don't think that is a lot if you're using it for production. I mean - 1-2 small projects - and that's it - you returned your money. And you got a very nice capable piece of software. If you're a freelancer - yup - that might be a bit of a big sum for a one time payment (would you prefer subscription rather ? 🤪) - but for studio - 500 euros - is not a question.

So I dunno man - if you're considering just for yourself - without intention of making money with it - for some very light freelance or hobby - might be a bit heavy - considering you already have a V4
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