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Hey Jason! Thanks!! I'll give it some time...
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...I'll see...but I think they will have to act fast. I've worked with it now for a few days and the UI is great, works like a charm within SU. This actually could be an unbeatable workflow, BUT I still think, after have read all the pro's of Maxwell, the speed is disastrous. I really hope the will solve this soon...
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There is a thread on another forum site that asks why Maxwell is not are mainstream as V-Ray and just about everyone said the same thing. Speed. One person even said his client preferred the biased rendering over the unbiased one. It all depends on your workflow, your client, and what your trying to accomplish. I have been on the fence about Maxwell for a long time and when this plug-in came out I was excited to see it inside of SU. But when I am in a crunch, I stick to biased V-Ray to get renderings out fast. We are at a turning point in rendering technologies that will shift over to biased and real time technologies. Maxwell is ahead of the curve, so learning it now puts you in a good place in the future.
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The offer they have right now where they give you 5 free render nodes is their immediate solution to speed. If you have a few workstations you can farm together this will cut render times down a lot. Also, you need a pretty decent processor if your machine is solely going to chug through these. I recommend an i7 if you dont already have one. Speed vs Quality is what the Maxwell folks will tell you. Unfortunately most clients do not care about quality over "need it yesterday". The ones that do care pay more.
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Yep, a dual i7 setup is my dream machine... but hardware is constantly improving so a time will come when these things are really not such a big deal. Already in the short time Maxwell has existed the processing power of the average render machine has tripled (or more).
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Just order a 6-core i7 on HP.com. Really good deals on there.
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About the Mainstream like V-ray....
Have you ever teached Autocad users to Sketchup? They only ask me why Sketchup has not this or that function and tend
to make Sketchup to be a primitive Software. They are often sluggish to change the way of thinking. No offending, but I have my autocad spinsters along my courses So Autocad will be the leader in the next years...that's mainstream.
But that's in general with human thinking.
V-Ray stays longer on the market and have a great customer community. So it is Mainstream, too. In the Render Community, where Professionals are working, the names are beside each other. Who needs speed tend to V-Ray, who needs quality tend to Maxwell.( biased and unbiased are quite different to compare ) The V-Ray comunity is larger by nature, not more.
You'll find a lot of Help for V-Ray - here in the Forum too. Let's say single supportedI thought the same about Maxwell and be on the track to learn it deeper. Now the Pluggin is really well implemented- thanks to JD- and well documented - thanks Jason too - so it makes it a lot easier now. Although - shame to me - I'm Maxwell owner since the alpha stages
Congretulation for a 6- core I7
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