Any features you'd like to see implemented into Maxwell?
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By Asmithey
#348550
With Maxwell 2.6 coming out, and being able to render strand particles, will this effect the outcome of the Blender exporter to include stand rendering?

Aaron
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By Rickyx
#349146
I'm back and married ;)

Now, I can involve interested people in testing...

I need testing scenes:
you can both link them here or pm me if you can't make it public.

I'll convert directly from Blender and show a render from the active camera you set-up.
If you pm I will pm you with the render.

On request I can send the exported scene.


As I wrote (and now unfortunately, edited), what has been done?


all kind of geometry
groups
material assignement
multiple Uv channel
cameras


As extra we get:
- environment!, passing "Constant Dome" setup
- some Render parameters
- possibility to pass and link pre-existent material: just name in blender your material "material.mxm" and exporter will search for a maxwell material (with the same name) in .blend dir (and subdirs) and in maxwell root (MAXWELL2_ROOT
)

For the future is planned a total integration with Blender (customized Blender interface, lauch render inside Blender and retrieve image inside Blender ) but it depends on public response.

Ciao,
Ricky
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By Asmithey
#349150
Hello there,

Great news!! Here is my public response WooooHOOO!!!!!

One question. As far as future "total" integration as you mentioned is concerned. Now that Maxwell supports hair/ fir and particle rendering. Is this something that would be included in the fully integrated plug-in too.

Most of my scenes have strand particle systems set up in them.
By Lynchon
#349166
Im sooooo looking foward to try this exporter!!! id love to help you with testing, dont know if you have a beta already...

Im an architect and i use a huge maxwell material library for material testing, therefore im very interested in having a complete integration of maxwell with blender specialy having the possibility of opening the material library for drag and dropping materials.

For the record, i would also be happy with donation for the developer ;)
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By Rickyx
#349525
Ok, thank you to all,

there is someone willing to send me some test scene?

Riccardo
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By Asmithey
#349532
I can send you a couple of scenes. Do you have a specific email address I can use?

Aaron
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By Asmithey
#349634
got it. I sent you some stuff. Let me know if any textures are missing. By the way, I am using Blender 2.6a and Maxwell 2.6.

Aaron
By Lynchon
#350663
wow finally we have something to try!

i did install it... but i cant enable it, may be because im using mac? on b-maxwell site says its only for windows but i always thought it didnt make any difference with addons.

anyway im looking forward to test it, thanks!
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By Asmithey
#350666
I downloaded it. It is in very early beta. I still can not get it to export anything to Maxwell. I can get the material editor to open up. But that is it.
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