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[lexpattison]

Once again - missed the point.

Maxwell isn't Mental Ray.

Do you grab a screwdriver to hammer in a nail? Two seperate tools used to perform the same work with different degrees of results based on the need.

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[aitraaz]

but you get what I'm saying, right?

what you're saying about rectums or what you're saying about complex architectural interior scenes?

The latter i get, the former i'm still not sure if its clear to me

[giacob]

anyway ... in my opinion maxwell is the best for lighting and material for archiviz render s.... too bad is so slow in interior and dielettric dont work...
it would have no rivals in this field but instead of fixing the major problems (cooperative render, dielttric, clipmaps etc... which would make it the best in absolute ) they play with minor features...
frankly dont get them.. unless this means that the major featurr ar in part unfixable...

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[giacob]

werent us told it is a release candidate?...and a release candite n5.. quite near the final version....

[Leonardo]

post 1000

[jleckron]

post 1000

Aw man! Congrats, Leo.

EDIT: Whups, on closer inspection, it looks like Leo made it in at 1004. I believe it's Powell who gets the prize.

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[Leonardo]

post 1000

Aw man! Congrats, Leo.

EDIT: Whups, on closer inspection, it looks like Leo made it in at 1004. I believe it's Powell who gets the prize.

Yeah, I know I think I'm 1003... andrewsweet didn't claim it... So I did

leo

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[lllab]

"actually it's pretty charitable to even call it a beta"

not at all. rc 5 is very stable, more than 3dmax is, and a lot of things are working very nice. just a bit is missing.

i think it is more than beta.

some of the plugins arent that far thats true.

cheers
stefan

[mverta]

Mike, do you provide some royalty free tracks? (for buying, of course)

Personally, I don't provide anything like that; though I've been commissioned for hundreds of "library" tracks by various agencies over the years. Most of my other music was paid work by the studios, who own every bit of it for all mediums known and unknown until the end of time or something like that.

I had to jump through a bunch of hoops just to get permission to put my own music on my site...

Thanks for the kind words...

_Mike

[mverta]

Easy there, tiger. It just seems like, since IES data is physically-based, there ought to be a way to translate that to a physically-based render engine.

Adam -

I agree, it seems like it should be feasible somehow, to find some use for all that data. I was responding more generally to those sort of low-rent pot-shot arguments that can be leveled at any piece of software for virtually any reason by those so inclined. My response wasn't directed at you or even the direct discussion of IES, per se...

_Mike