- Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:06 pm
#43984
On behalf of architects and architecture students everywhere I'd like to have some nonrealistic camera options. Specifically, orthographic views, clipping and pseudocolor renders that show illumination levels on a customizable scale. Allow me to plead my case:
Maxwell's realistic camera is extremely useful for setting up the kind of money-shot, sell-it-to-your-client-or-professor graphic that we've come to expect from arch-viz software, especially the "CG guy as architectural photographer" school of thought. But many of us also use visualization in design and analysis. Having the most realistic lighting engine in the business, Maxwell is particularly well suited to lighting studies that are important in the "green" design field, that are best done in plan, section and section-perspective.
The business angle for Nextlimit is, "This renderer doubles as a physically accurate lighting simulator for Autocad and Sketchup." If I can knock off a Sketchup model, render it overnight and in the morning show the client in plan view that my light shelf design gives the second row of desks the correct amount of light while saving x watts of lighting which equals y dollars per year, that's a very valuable feature, and something I can't really get from the other renderers out there, and probably not that hard to write into the software - it's already doing all the calculations.
Maxwell's realistic camera is extremely useful for setting up the kind of money-shot, sell-it-to-your-client-or-professor graphic that we've come to expect from arch-viz software, especially the "CG guy as architectural photographer" school of thought. But many of us also use visualization in design and analysis. Having the most realistic lighting engine in the business, Maxwell is particularly well suited to lighting studies that are important in the "green" design field, that are best done in plan, section and section-perspective.
The business angle for Nextlimit is, "This renderer doubles as a physically accurate lighting simulator for Autocad and Sketchup." If I can knock off a Sketchup model, render it overnight and in the morning show the client in plan view that my light shelf design gives the second row of desks the correct amount of light while saving x watts of lighting which equals y dollars per year, that's a very valuable feature, and something I can't really get from the other renderers out there, and probably not that hard to write into the software - it's already doing all the calculations.
My firm is big into Green, we actually built the first LEED certified building in my area so giving Maxwell the capabilities to do some minor calculations like this would be a great asset! From what I've read this shouldn’t be to hard to do for the NL team since all of this data is already there I think it's just a matter of creating an interface that can deliver this info. Good idea 
- By jurX
- By Jochen Haug