Maxwell Render™ is compatible with 3DsMax 2012 and Maya 2012! The full list of caompatible software and updated plugins you can find at they homepage listed at the end of this article. The Maxwell Render™ is a rendering engine based on the mathematical equations governing light transport, meaning that all elements, such as emitters, materials and cameras, are derived from physically accurate models.
The 8th Annual Architectural Award is hosted by industry leader Cgarchitect.com and Chaos Group. This year would be the awards divided into three main categories: Still Imagery, Animation/Film and Real Time. If you are working with V-Ray and have interesting projects which you would like to present or other software solutions, hurry up and submit your work.
After the recent update from V-Ray to version 2.0, Chaos Group products get another update which makes them compatible with the latest products from Autodesk; Maya 2012 and 3DsMax 2012. The new V-Ray compatible with the new releases from Autodesk is already ready to download on Chaos Group webpage. Chaos Group included in this update also new feature and several bug fixes such as:
With releasing of the new 3DsMax from Autodesk came also questions about the compatibility of plugins for this new version. It’s good to see that companies like Cebas proving that they are very tight with this software and all they aspects. While ago they release they rendering engine for 3DsMAx 2012 finalRender™ 3.5 and 3.5 SE (including finalToon™). They are both for 32-bit and 64-bit systems and already available for download!
Cebas released finalRender™ 2 for the latest version of Maya that was released few weeks earlier by Autodesk. The software is available immediately for purchase from the cebas website in both 32- and 64-bit versions. If you don’t know what can this plugin do for you, here is a very short description. finalRender™ 2 is a rendering engine with full support of Hypershade and many of the other shader nodes that Maya presents, but also offers one of the easiest and most efficient integrated pipeline systems.
