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Maxwell Render 2.5 User Manual

Chapter 10. Maxwell Materials | 57

F.01 Material preview

By right-clicking on the material preview image or using the Preview menu in the Material

editor, you can access some specic options:

• Select Scene: You can use any MXS le to preview your materials. By default

Maxwell Render uses the defaultpreview.mxs le in the preview folder of your Maxwell

installation folder. The list shows all the scenes found in this folder.

• Load Scene: Load a scene to use in the material preview.

• Previews: This dropdown will list all the saved material swatches. Each swatch will

have a small preview and you can select it from the list to revert the material settings

to that swatch. Alternatively, you can use the Browse swatch button at the bottom of

the Preview section.

• Store: Store the current material settings as a swatch. The saved swatch will save

all settings from the entire material, including if a texture is activated or not, texture

tiling, etc. Please note that these swatches are saved temporarily and will not be

available when you re-open the scene.

• Remove: Remove the currently selected swatch.

• Export:

• To MXS: Export the currently selected swatch to the current scene and add it to

the material list.

• To MXM: Export the currently selected swatch to a new .mxm le.

Please note: these two options will only work if you have a saved swatch in the material.

• Options: This eld species the quality and the size of the material preview. Complex

materials may require a higher Sampling Level. Use this led to specify the SL, Render

Time and Scale of the material preview. These options are also available in the

Preferences panel, and they will be used as defaults.

• Making your own preview scenes: The material preview window can render any

MXS. Preview scenes are useful to preview specic scenes or objects. When the

Right-click menu is open, all the MXS les available in the preview folder are shown,

allowing you to choose the one you need. Create your MXS scene as usual, but make

sure the scene has a material called “preview” applied to the object(s) you want to

use for material previewing. Then save your MXS in the preview folder located in the

Maxwell installation folder.

Tips for creating preview scenes

• Keep the scene as simple as possible, with few emitters and without using heavy

geometry. This way the preview will start and render faster.

• Make sure the object with the preview material has UVs applied to it; otherwise

you will get an error trying to preview a material that uses textures.

• Keep an eye on the scale of your preview scene and the scale of your preview

object. For example, if your preview object is 2cm in size and the camera in

the scene is close to the object, and you are trying to preview a displacement

material set to use an absolute height of 50cm, the preview will take a very long

time to start. In addition, the preview might look completely black because the

displacement has actually gone past the camera – it sees the “inside” of the

object.

10.02.06 The Right-click Menu

Right-click in the panel of the material component tree to display the main tools. You can

access the same tools through the Edit menu in the Material Editor. The following menu

appears:

• Add Layer: Add a new layer to a material. The layers work like different materials

stacked one over the other in a layered object (i.e.: a shiny layer of paint over a wood

surface). Each layer represents a complete material, with as many BSDF components

inside as you like. Please see the Stacked Layers system description in Chapter 10.3

for more information.

• Add BSDF: Add a new BSDF component to the current layer. You can add as many

BSDF components to a layer as you like.

• Add Emitter: Add an emitter component. Emitters can be mixed with a material. For

example, if you have applied a glass material to a light bulb with the emitter turned

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