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Here be renderings.

I didn't remember anyone posting a mxw-render of the stanford dragon, so I had to do it myself.. I'll render the bunny too in a minute..
The insane amount of polys didn't seem to affect rendertimes that much Is it because of the voxelization?


I was wondering about the differences between the metal types so I made a quick test (4 hours (the digits are for u and v roughness)):

Can't see anything spectaculary different between aluminium, cobalt or silver.. Should there be something else that defines them but the slight color variations?

Here's a chair. It got kinda dark inside .. Experimented with a few different lighting setups here and came up with a light gray bottom-half of a chamfer-cylinder for the floor and a slightly smaller and flipped chamfer-cylinder for the emitter. I used a bit too high roughness-settings for the floor though..
Reached level 15.3


Here's a quick studio-setup test I made. 3 emitters total. It's quite noisy, because one emitter is reflected via a white wall and I didn't have time to refine it more. I'll also post the scene. It might be useful if you just want to concentrate on your model, not the setup (3dsmax 8 so I'm not sure if it can be opened with earlier versions :S )


mxw_studiosetup.zip
more to come..

There is a slight difference. It is best when doing material previews to keep them isolated so their colors don't interact with each other.

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... ht=preview

Also, in the current beta the anisotropy is not functioning. So [0.5, 0.0] is the same as [0.0, 0.5]

Thomas An. wrote:There is a slight difference. It is best when doing material previews to keep them isolated so their colors don't interact with each other.
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... ht=preview

Those are nice renders
If I remember correctly, it's possible to set your own models for the material editor's preview in 3dsmax. Not so useful for Maxwell (before they get the mxw-mat. editor ready), but it'd be nice for some of the other renderers

Thomas An. wrote: Also, in the current beta the anisotropy is not functioning. So [0.5, 0.0] is the same as [0.0, 0.5]

I thought so too

i think this post is place in tutorial

thank for test

:: great tests... it would be nice to have more variation in the uv roughness.
Thanks

Can't see anything spectaculary different between aluminium, cobalt or silver.. Should there be something else that defines them but the slight color variations....

Thank you for your test.

The problem for your speculars is in your image, most it are burned out and approx. white now. Only in the 1,0.5 row, I see a slight difference.

The current metal shader is a very simple one. Only reflection and roughness are suported. Most I use the plastic shader with an additional diffuse component. For example in a current rendering I use for steel specular 150 + diffuse 100. If you like to get colored metal per plastic shader, don't forget to set the color at both -> spec + diffuse.

New pic!
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 8040#78040