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Maxwell Render 2.5 User Manual
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F.01 MXI Batch Processing
• Resume MXI: Select a MXI le to resume rendering. After specifying a MXI le, the
corresponding MXS le will be loaded in Maxwell Render and rendering will resume
automatically from where it left off. Please note that the resume render will not work
if you have made any changes in the MXS or if the location of the MXS has changed.
• Load Image: Convert a bitmap into a MXI which can then be used as an Image
emitter in your scenes. After loading the image you can use the Intensity settings from
the Edit panel (MXI section) to change the brightness of the MXI emitter. Brighter
settings will make the MXI emit more light. Use the “Save MXI as” menu option to
save the image in the MXI format. Please note that if your bitmaps are in HDR or
EXR format they do not need to be converted to the MXI format; you can use these
formats directly as Image Emitters.
• Save Image: Save a bitmap of your render. After clicking Save in the dialog, a
second menu will appear, allowing you to choose the bitdepth. Depending on the
format you have chosen in the Save Dialog, you can save in 8, 16 or 32 bit output.
• Preferences: Open the preferences dialog to set preferences for notication
messages, texture repository paths where Maxwell Render will look if any textures
are missing, exporting channels formats, and general issues. The General Preferences
tab allows you to change the look of the interface, specify where output les will be
stored, or indicate a minimum time for saving to disk (in minutes). Using this option,
you can improve the performance in systems where the writing process is very slow.
For example, if the output folder is to a USB stick, it may be better not saving to disk
frequently during the rst sampling levels, but rather when a certain amount of time
has passed. By default, the value is set to “Automatic”, which means that Maxwell
Render saves to disk as usual (i.e. when a new SL is reached).
• Recent MXS/ Recent MXI: Display a list of the recently opened MXS/ MXI les.
• Quit: Close Maxwell Render.
View: Visualize your scene in different ways, using tools like Zoom, Pan, Rotate, Full Size,
display the Render, or display different Channels.
Render: Start, stop, or resume the render process. You can also launch the current scene
in network, using the option “Render via Network”. This option launches a Monitor (or
uses the existing Monitor if there is one running on the same machine), and opens the Job
Wizard automatically, lining up a new job with the current scene. Of course there must
be one Manager and at least one Rendernode running to be able to render in network.
Scripting: Load and run a script le to automate the rendering process. See the Scripting
chapter for more information about Scripting. The Scripts menu option shows a list of the
scripts available in the “scripts” folder in the Maxwell installation folder. For quick access
to scripts you should save any scripts you use regularly in this folder.
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