[goncalo]

Hello Maxwell community.

Im very glad for purchase the Mawell software, for a lot of reasons...

1st - because i think it is and will be a great software of rendering.

2nd - I liked to see this community of maxwell, to contribute for Maxwell grows, and to help each others to learn how to use it in the better way.

BUT... i think it miss in this forum a SCETION for SETUP scenes.
Where the more experts of maxwell can upload their scenes to others can open an study how to aplly the emitters, the materials, and the combination of every related settings to have a good result. I work with Cinema 4D i read a lot but i learned a lot with shared files with setup scenes.

I understand some people are afraid to share the work... but dont have afraid, instead be happy to share knowledge, to help the beginners to understand how this really work.

I made one simple scene to understand how it works, after a lot of experiences i think i had some clue, i pass to another scene... and i sad to make a lot of experiences to get something to see. And i read a lot about maxwell and have study the manual and some topics of this forum... but i stilll not reach there and then i see lovely renders here and i think they made it with maxwell ... what i making wrong?

Share your knowledges here... this community is wonderful only miss this part to be the best forum of ever.

Thanks to the forum for all the members ... your helps have been grate
...and Thanks to Maxwell Team of course.

Goncalo

[goncalo]

SIJEN - I dont think im funny guy ... maybe you are... or a hero.. who knows... i really dont know you.

I make some suggestion... I bought this software Maxwell like i bought Cinema 4D and i learned a lot with some files in C4D forums, a lot, really.
I read a lot of HDRI, radiosity global illumination, and make a lot of architecture renders with it, and one day i downloaded one scene file in a C4D forum, and that file change all my way of working, and setting lights, since that day, i change the way to set the illumination, with much better results. So I thought this was a great community ( i thought ) and i thought it was a good idea. Like some members post great tutorials, and experiments like i saw: Dielectrics, plastic and diffuse experiences, and SSS and others . (Thanks again for those who made them.)

* Two more things sijen - I downloaded already from this forum Scene SETUP FILES... I only make a sugestion to make Section for this because i think is very usefull. Another thing i was not the first person to post this Topic, i already saw it here on the Forum.

I thought this forum also was to help each others... but maybe you are right Im a funny guy and this is a forum where a person put a render and the others comment: - is very nice - is amazing - etc. etc.

Thank you for the reply.
Im not SARCASTIC like you, so... very nice Greeble render made by you.

Sorry to all that think in the same way, my intention was not to be funny

goncalo

[goncalo]

Sijen thank you for reply the message

I think we are all here for the same, and i want to make friends and not enemies... and i m funny guy

I take this stuff very seriously because, is work. And we spend time to learn a new software... and some times is not easy... even when we study.

The setup scenes files i talk about is >

Not only the picture with the time, the fstop 2.0, speed 1/50, etc.

But some file scene with object and materials, etc... the source file of the image... like this:

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... cene+setup

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... cene+setup


The intention is to open the source file and understand how the FABULOUS renders we see on this forum start, or how we can made some similar.

Because i see some amazing renders here, in the gallery, and they say the time, the fstop, the spedd, etc etc but when i try ... is a disaster.

Thanks again for the reply Sijen

[Mihai]

goncalo, this forum is called "User Gallery", it's the forum ment for users to upload pictures so others can look at them.

Don't ask people to share their scenes, it's not nice. They may do it out of kindness, but it's not a polite thing to ask, you know?

If you have specific questions ask them in the Maxwell forum not in the user gallery and people will help you.

[ivox3]

goncalo,

don't get the wrong idea about the forum .....it's basically friendly.
Mihai is correct about using the proper areas within the forum for technical/info..etc.

They like to keep it an orderly place....that's all.

In terms of help on scene setups/lighting/etc etc.... there already exists plenty of stuff and new info is constantly emerging from the users/NL.
And to comment on whether users will share info ......some will/some won't .

nothing new there.

relax and learn. i3.

by the way .........the initial posts within this thread were kinda funny.

Note: hey Mihai, ......Could i have every setting from every single image in your gallery ? ........

[goncalo]

Hey people i think this is a bad understood

I give an idea because e i saw that setup files here in this forum, and like i sad before in C4D forums i get some great files that change my way of working.

So it was an idea to make a section of setup files, to the people WHO WANT to share some setup files... I daunt ask to people share if they daunt want, i think you all didn't understand the idea.

And ivox3 you are right saying ...it´s basically friendly the forum, is that the idea, i think i didn't get wrong idea about the forum my friend.

One suggestion... only suggestion my friends

Mihai - "Don't ask people to share their scenes, it's not nice" i gonna say it again i didn't ask anything to anybody, i only make a suggestion that helped me in other forums, only that. But i know very well what you mean when you say that. When i make this suggestion, of course i know a lot of people dont want to sahre some files to this purpose, but like some have post their files here to help. why not, one section like tutorials or gallery where people can share files instead only the final render? (if anyone wants) Because my friend i saw so many members posting tutorials and great explanations, why not sharing that setup files for helping?

So my friends i think i daunt have a wrong idea from the forum, i think you guys make some wrong i idea about what i post here, and dint understand the point.

what a confusion about one suggestion... but anyway thanks for the replys... now i´m starting to meet the members of the forum

[shaun]

Hi Goncalo

I was reading you suggestion about sharing files and I totally understand where you're coming from. I have a lot of fustration when it comes to rendering. I simply cannot get my perspectives to look like those I see in the C4D gallery (Maxon Web Site). Therefore I have purchased Maxwell (with the hope of getting better).

I think those that can or want to share their file can do with great appreciation although we don't mention it sometimes. Those that don't want to share thats fine too.

Oh and I know this thread is in the wrong forum so don't shout at me but since the topic was brought up here I thought I'd reply here.

Thanking you kindly,

Shaun
Ps.: Maybe the moderator can move this thread to the appropriate place.

[Maximus3D]

Hm, well first of all this is all posted in the wrong section of the forum as mentioned earlier. And secondly if people wanna share their scenes then they'll do that on their own, however since alot of people on here do commercial work with Maxwell and lots of stuff they post on here is used in one way or another for some sort of commercial production then such material cannot be shared as it would breach the contract and then it'll all get very messy with lawsuits and stuff like that which no one wants.

But normal privately made scenes for non-commercial use shouldn't be a problem as long as the artists themselves feel like sharing their scenes. After all it's up to each person to make that decision

/ Max

[goncalo]

hy again... Sorry it was a mistake placing here this post, wrong section


Thanks Max for the reply

I think you get what i mean.



To shaun and for who is usefully this C4D file of global illumination
Please download from here

http://rapidshare.de/files/5160389/ROOM ... d.zip.html

[Olivier Cugniet]

Hi,

I don't own Maxwell render for know, but I think also that sharing some setup is nice. I know that there are and would be (for maxwell Render) thousands of CG artists better than me, but I would also share some setup, if I have something good to share.
I think, this thread doesn't speak about sharing models and so, but only light setups, materials and so on... so don't be affraid to share.... Isn't it what we exactly do as freelance artists that work with other ones ? (well, I do it)

[goncalo]

Now i m starting to be afraid to make posts here

BAD UNDERSTANDING AGAIN

I DONT WANT ANY FILE

I ONLY MAKE A SUGGESTION TO BE A PLACE FOR WHO WANT TO POST THEIR SETUP FILES ... like a tutorial... because there is a lot of setup files inside this forum but their are disperse.

like MAXIMUS SAID VERY WELL - normal privately made scenes for non-commercial use shouldn't be a problem as long as the artists themselves feel like sharing their scenes. After all it's up to each person to make that decision.


WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE AFRAID... my art is architecture, rendering is a form of representation, and technic is not art but the way you represent it, Picasso was Great painter ... but you get painters who can copy his work, his technics... and you think that person is like Picasso , you are wrong, the art of Picasso was in his head, not in the hands, the hands is a bridge... You can copy the great artists but you cant be like them... representation is a way, to represent art... ( But i still understand your point, but im not CG artist, my art is the architecture, the renders are very important for me but for representation ) ANd another thing Juango, in that way the Universities of art and should close to daunt share knowledge, and technics of representation...

But nothing of this is related with this post, Sijen and Junago, you still daunt get the idea... THIS WAS A SUGGESTION TO BE A PLACE FOR WHO WANT TO POST THEIR SETUP FILES... because i saw many setup files, but here is not a section for them, or could be inside tutorials.

I m getting tired to explain what is a suggestion... i really daunt need that files, i like very much photography, i also do it, and print my own photos, and i make renders with C4D long time... and i have good results with Maxwell already , but i still think is a good idea to have a place to that files, because some technics are good to share like in university, simple things to rich some solution ( like some disperse setup files in the forum )


I have now one big problem to solve, if anyone could help me i will appreciate it. I work with MAC G5 dual 2.0, and Maxwell crashes after 20 minutes more or less after start, never finish the renders, i m getting crazy... i want to finish a render to a work and i cant...

[pluMmet]

slow down goncalo...it's a fine idea! just wait till the final release. I'd be happy to post a few scenes and they can make it a sticky in the tutorials section and other people can post stuff...no body here hates the idea of helping!

[deesee]

giancolo,

I hear what you're saying. I think a place called "Scenes" or something like that would be cool. If a person doesn't want to share, then don't go there, but if you feel you have something that you're willing to share and that could help newbies, then at least that person would have an outlet / place for to do so.

I personally scratch my head when I see the incredible renderings on here (and as I've said before) say, "How did they do that?"

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

deesee

[Maximus3D]

The idea is ofcourse good, no doubt about that part. But there are a few quirks and questionmarks that needs to be sorted out first. And a couple of rules actually needs to be written down for such a section to be fully working after Maxwell gone final when something like this along with the material library idea which also been suggested a number of times before.

First of all i think these are important things to keep in mind.
- Artists share scenes on their own will, never upon requests from others.
- Only private work, non-commercial work can be shared.
- Textures if commercial should be excluded from the scenes. Homemade can be included.
- Any scenes shared by users are only for teaching, understanding and learning purposes, they cannot be modified and re-rendered from another angle or anything like that and then reposted in a gallery somewhere under any other persons name. Credit should go to the artist who produced the models/textures/scenes if they're reposted elsewhere with permission ofcourse. This should be crystal clear to everyone.
- Respect should also ofcourse be given to each and every artist/creator for their wishes and requests regarding their scene and any content they post for others.

There's some of the few quick "rules" and ideas which i think are quite necessary for a project like this, and well.. actually they're quite valid for a material library aswell.

/ Max

[goncalo]

Thanks Max

I agree with all you mentioned... now i think all can understand the purpose