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But for a simple scene with simple lighting, I think it worked awesome! I’ll be sure to use it on simple exteriors with simple material work on them.
Again the denoiser is really buggy it seems. Sure you have to watch your materials, but for this basic scene, it rendered to SL 10 in 1 minute!!! Thats pretty awesome. I’d rather have a higher SL than the built in denoiser. If the time were the same, I’d be totally into it, but this dual SL thing, not so sure about it. I didn’t realize that it would take a lot more time to render. I’d just rather run my topaz filter on it, and render it for longer. Being tied down to a SL might not work for me. As far as the denoiser goes, I don’t think I’ll be using that function. At least as people in my office jump to sketchup 2018+ I wont have to down save them to work on them. I guess I can no longer use my v3? Kind of sucks. I wanted to bench these against my v3.xx Maxwell, but the licensing wouldn’t let me. It wasn’t just a shitty stand alone plug in for sketchup like they had before. You get all the same workflow that you have used in previous generations of the software, which I am really happy about. Had it been +$1000, I wouldn’t feel like I got much. I think I paid over $1400 for the last Maxwell upgrade, since I only paid $150 I’m happy with it. I tried this again with the denoiser fuction The second cube with the displacement map came out very strange, and the car paint cube didn’t work at all. I tested the same scene and got an interesting result. I popped that into my Dell and took out the old quadro card. So I had the old GeForce GTX Titan )6 gig) card sitting around.
I had just recently upgraded my Lumion machine’s video card to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11 gig) card. So my quadro card wasn’t going to cut it. After a little research, I realized they only supported CUDA architecture in their video cards. When I tried this option it failed instantly. you can change the render engine from CPU (above) to GPU. Additionally, if you just run your own denoiser from PS or Topaz as I have, you can save a ton of time. It seemed to just take a lot of extra time for not a huge gain in quality. I’ll have to use it some more to verify that though. I’m not convinced that the denoiser is a great feature.
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To better compare the images download them to a new folder on your local so you can just toggle from image to image without loading times. Since the denoiser clearly took more time (10 minutes more), I set the time to 12 minutes and wanted to see how far the render could get.įrom the 4 images, I think the best one is the one that rendered the longest. You can not end it early, or there would have been no point in selecting that option.įor fun I ran my own denoiser in photoshop over the second image that had the 2 minute SL10. for the denoiser to work effectively, it MUST finish. Take a look at this screen shot, it has 2 levels of SL. Here is with the denoiser that maxwell is marketing. All the SL are the same, the times change for the most part.
The furthest cube had some the lacquer setting in maxwell, the middle had a plastic setting with a displacement, and the close cube had a car paint setting on it, The ground had no reflectivity, but a fairly strong bump map turn up. I rendered this scene with a few different settings. Turns out its the exact same thing and workflow as I always used. I buy photoshop plugins for more than that… Turns out since it was an upgrade, it came out to $148.75. I figured I’d give it a shot for half off. I was nervous since sketchup was cheaper it was going to just be like the old worthless plugin.Īnyways, I was working on Black Friday, as I do every year, and saw a 50% off email from Maxwell. My experience with this plugin is what lead me to be hesitant to upgrade.
It didn’t let you render out any channels. It was pretty worthless and only let you save images from the Fire preview window. In v3, Maxwell offered a 100$ plugin for sketchup which I tested out. Conceptually, I liked this idea, but in practice, my workflow whats pretty much straight out of sketchup. In previous versions, a licence of Maxwell got you access to their render engine, and whatever plugin you wanted to use.
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I was a little confused at why Maxwell broke their software down into all the different plugins.
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Obviously, this is coming months after the release of v4, but I had been hesitant to make the upgrade for a few reasons. Since we got that out of the way I can dive into my quick look at the new version of Maxwell.
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*This is not a professional product review, just me playing around with the software for an hour*
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