[choo-chee]

Funny, I think, that when I check CG sites they are full of articles about new features on other render engines, that I got used to in Maxwell like years ago. Still can't use others as they are lower quality than Maxwell. Yet, NL seems to have abandoned their product. Weird, as finally CPU's are fast enough to give me good renders and acceptable timeline. Really sorry to see this. And, I don't really think that anything is missing from Maxwell other than maybe some better asset library. Hope that after all they'll continue and we'll see a new version, who knows....

[Matteo Villa]

Other rendering engines are evolving day by day, month by month, releasing new quality of life updates, constantly.

Maxwell Render, considered one of the most influential rendering engines in the Archiviz / Product design / Architectural industry, has been left behind by other rendering software.

You could have one of the best rendering engine out there.

But if you don’t evolve, if you don’t invest your time, effort and energy in keeping it on par within the competition, it will definitely die.

[choo-chee]

after some more thinking and browsing, I think the days of the "traditional" render engine are numbered. AI generative engines are getting better by the day, producing very good to excellent results in seconds, and it's only a matter of a year or two (to my understanding) that models will get AI generated images without all the fuss of lighting, texturing etc. , same as after basic phong shading and ray tracing came radiosity and global illumination and then physically based rendering ....

[Matteo Villa]

I’m personally against full ai rendering.

It doesn’t give full control over clients requests.

Actually the IA path is not valuable whenever a client have specific changes for the project.

But something like D5 render is way faster then Maxwell render. And it’s constantly updated with the latest technology.

In like 10 minutes you could render a whole project.

Quality wise, Maxwell could be superior, but being stagnant without any update in the latest 2 years, make the difference month by month slightly less noticeable. Nothing you can’t achieve with some post pro enhancing within affinity/photoshop.

[jurX]

I already started a Thread to this theme.

viewtopic.php?f=166&t=46087

...and it´s crazy next limit to ignore all the users who wait for a new Maxwell Version, and there're a lot. @Next Limit: These customers will bring you money!!!!

regards

[choo-chee]

well I don't think AI will remain like it is now. same as we used to just ray trace and photoshop, than we had radiosity and global illumination, than unbiased rendering ... now AI is changing all to just rendering. so a year or two maybe but I think all the old school workflow of "model, texture, light, render, post" will change to "prompt, edit, prompt" and that's it.

[jurX]

I don't think that in 2 years AI will be precise like real modeling. For concepts, ok, but not for precise building modeling.

[Andreas Hopf]

"prompt, edit, prompt"

How will an AI renderer read the 3D files from Alias, Catia, NX, texture and render them?

With much ado, I can generate some ok-ish AI 2D inpainting from an accurate black outlines on white background drawing. For each new perspective or zoomed in detail, I have to produce a new 2D drawing.

[Matteo Villa]

Ai actually can’t compete with a proper
CAD/BIM - rendering engine combo workflow.

But even with some quality compromise,
rendering engine like D5 render definitely surpasses Maxwell render in usability, performance and time saving.

Plus the recently added AI tools inside D5 render exponentially increase the value of AI in rendering engines.

Maxwell Render still shine in high quality rendering output, but the advantage its narrowing month by month when compared to latest Vray release, and in some instances with TWINMOTION too.

Maxwell Render definitely need a big comeback release or will fall like Artlantis sooner or later

[choo-chee]

I think you are all very optimistic. AI will soon "learn" precise modelling and that's it for our profession. Already now AI is better and faster and lighting, texturing, rendering, scene assembly - whatever you name it AI is already moving in fast in that area. So the only logical thing is that in a year, maybe two, maybe three and probably not more than that, AI will be able to make a complete project from showing the client some ideas, and than move in to plan and model it with perfect renderings.