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OK, I guess everyone is busy downloading and testing!!!
So, I will start a new topic where we all add what we like most from the new update!!!


1. Displacement : Great improvement, it is finally usable without big delays!
2. Hair/fur/grass: Looks great, I will have to test it more because I didn't use it until today!!! (3dsMAX)
3. Particles: Looks really awesome!!! But now I will have to learn how to make particles in MAX
4. External MXS files... This has to be checked but it must be really nice thing to have for large scenes!!!
5. Displacement + instances & Displacement + motion blur : More great news!!!

Pretesselated Displacement and MXS references are my favorites, but I am working on a way to play with hair.

Best,
Jason.

I like the addition of hair in Maxwell, it was a unexpected new feature and what surprised me the most to see what support for vector displacement, yay! it opens the door for many new creative materials amongst many other things.

There are many other things which i haven't had a time to play with yet but as soon as i got a chance i will.

/ Magnus

Looks like a HUGE update!

Thank you, NL

Check out the separate Sun and Physical Sky now when using ML, it really is a cool "small" addition to ML.
And reading back ML settings into your scene....

I like this update too

I agree, this update is great
And finally separate Sun and Sky among everything else.

Cheers
JC

Whats the difference between regular displacement and vector displacement?

Mihai wrote: And reading back ML settings into your scene....

I like this update too

me to, is really great
and maxwell lights in 3dsmax
saludos
luis

Oh, and I forgot to mention the python scripting support is pretty badass as well -- finally animation support for those of us with modeling packages that do not export animation.

Best,
Jason.

gadzooks wrote:Whats the difference between regular displacement and vector displacement?

http://support.nextlimit.com/display/ma ... +component

Mihai wrote:

gadzooks wrote:Whats the difference between regular displacement and vector displacement?

http://support.nextlimit.com/display/ma ... +component

From the doc: "Vector displacement maps can be created in 3D sculpting applications such as Zbrush, Mudbox, 3DCoat."

But ZBrush is not capable of exporting Vector Displacements yet, right?!

Marco

As far as i know Zbrush is not yet capable of vector displacementmaps. However Modo is able to generate these maps quite easily and with good results.

/ Magnus

Great work, guys. Looking forward to testing it out.

Sounds like a great update. Unfortunately, I keep getting an "image data corrupted" error every time I try to install it. This is for the Mac version. I downloaded it 3 times and keep getting the error when running the .dmg file.

Anyone else getting this?

Walter

I downloaded the mac version yesterday and had no problem whatsoever.