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Version 3.0.0

Maxwell Scene Object

• Output > Channels layout refined.
• Added Channels > Deep.
• Added Channels > Alpha Custom.
• Added Custom Alphas group (shown when Alpha Custom is enabled).
• Added Engine > Globals (Motion Blur, Displacement, Dispersion).
• Added Engine > Overlay Text group.
• Added Custom Sun Type and Color.
• Added Sun Radius Factor.
• Added IBL > Viewport Resolution.

Material Editor

• Added Material > Type (found in top tree node).
• Added Material > Type > AGS.
• Added Material > Type > Opaque.
• Added Material > Type > Transparent.
• Added Material > Type > Translucent.
• Added Material > Type > Metal.
• Added Material > Type > Car Paint.
• Added top node > right-click > Switch To > AGS, Opaque, etc.
• Added top node > Properties > Override Map.
• Added Texture Editor > Use Override Map.
• Added Texture Editor > Rotation.
• Added Texture Editor > Mirror X & Y.
• Added Texture Editor > Hue.
• New texture params are shown in the preview.
• Added new displacement parameters.

Maxwell Object Properties Tag

• Added Opacity.
• Added Backface Material.
• Added Boolean parameter.
• Added Custom Alpha Channels.
• Added Blocked Emitters.
• Added Smoothing.
• Added Subdivision.
• Added PLA Motion Blur.

Maxwell Sea Object (new)

• Produces a Maxwell Sea extension object.
• Provides control for display color and overall object scale.
• The generated object is displayed interactively as a point cloud.
• Easily animated by keyframing the Reference Time parameter.

Maxwell Volumetric Tag (new)

• May be placed on a Null, an RF Particles Importer, or Particles Emitter/Geometry.
• On a Null, may control a Constant or Noise 3D Field, or reference an RF bin file.
• On an RF Particles Importer, the file is taken from the RF Particles Importer.
• On Particles Emitter or Geometry, native Cinema particles define the volumetric.

Maxwell Camera Tag

• UI Layout refined.
• Added Aperture > Lens.
• Added Aperture > Custom Bokeh.
• Added support for parallel projection cameras.

Maxwell Hair Tag

• Specify Root & Tip Width for rendered hairs.
• Specify whether to render using flat, curve, or cylinder types.
• Optionally, raytrace UVs back to a source polygon object.

Maxwell Particles Tag

• Added Enable/Disable switch.
• Added Particle Emitter End Scale & Variation support.

Fixes

• Textures could be projected wrong on some objects.
• Hair UVs could sometimes be rendered wrong.
• Particle Emitter/Geometry with no tag was exported.
• Render Region could disappear with view clipping.

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Version 3.0.2

Changes

• Added Density parameter to Volumetrics in Noise 3D mode.
• Alembic Particle Geoemtry is now treated as Particle Geometry.
• Particles, Volumetrics, etc now support relevant Object Properties.
• Check Paths now reports more details on the location of paths.
• Added new Bind Monitor & Bind Node Networking prefs.
• Added new Start Manager & Start node Networking prefs.
• The plugin now points to the Next Limit support site for help.

Fixes

• Pack & Go was missing displacement & Assistant maps.
• Displacement was not shown when using Assistants.
• Displacement type was read incorrectly from older files.
• A directory name could be written into the active texture.

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Version 3.0.5

Changes

• Added new MaxwellMesher object.
• Added support for RealFlow RK and Hybrido Mesh objects.
• Camera shift lens now allows greater than +/- 100% shift values.
• Cinema material translation now uses pretesselated displacement.
• Improved support for use of non-English characters in paths.
• All plugin versions now use local copies of Maxwell extensions.

Fixes

• Particle Geometry objects were not properly exported.

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Version 3.0.6

Changes

• Switched to Maxwell version 3.0.1.3 binaries.

Fixes

• Fixed various issues with extended-ASCII characters.

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Version 3.0.7

Changes

• Switched to Intel-compiled extensions on Windows.
• Patched for XP (though it is no longer supported).

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Version 3.0.8

Changes

• Added support for R16 materials.
• Added initial support for TFD.

Note on TFD support

• When placed on a TFD Container, the Maxwell Volumetric tag will show a unique set of parameters. Note that some of the parameters do not currently work (e.g. custom UV channels); for this reason, this feature will not yet be documented.

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Version 3.1.0

• Update to Maxwell 3.1.0 binaries
• Add Camera Response
• Add Exposure Presets
• Add Floating Shadows (FIRE)
• Add Floating Reflections (FIRE)
• Add White Point
• Add Tint
• Add Render Zone
• Add Hide to Camera in Shadow Ch.
• Add Spotlight Emitter mode
• Add Material Custom Alphas
• Add Release License function
• Add support for OpenVDB (via Volumetric Tag)
• Now supporting TFD color channels

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Version 3.1.1

• Update to Maxwell 3.1.1 binaries
• Extra Sampling feature was not working from the plugin
• MXM Reference path is only set when linking is enabled

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Version 3.1.2

• Object Properties were exported incorrectly in some cases

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Version 3.1.3

• Update to Maxwell Render 3.1.1 binaries
• Render all textures default set to false in convert materials command
• MXM linking avoids showing confirmation dialog when called from script
• Fixed an issue with render instances of polygon objects from SurfaceSPREAD

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Version 3.1.4

• Fix an issue with MXM file references crashing on OSX.

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Version 3.1.5

• Update to Maxwell 3.1.99.8 libs.
• Add material Priority.
• Add PSD output support.
• Add new Output modes.
• Add Reflectance Channel output.
• Add Maxwell Sea Repeat U/V params.
• Add Stereo Lat/Lon camera Lens.
• Add Stereo Fisheye camera Lens.

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Version 3.1.6

• Update to Maxwell 3.2.0.0 RC1 libs.

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Version 3.2.2

• Update to Maxwell 3.2.1.1 binaries.
• Improve mxm/gallery import error reporting.
• Displacement subdivision default value was wrong.