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Maxwell Render 2.5 User Manual

Chapter 9. The core rendering application | 39

9 THE CORE RENDERING APPLICATION

The core rendering application in Maxwell Render (previously called MXCL) is the engine

which computes your render and shows you the nal image. The component is called

Maxwell.exe in Windows, Maxwell.app in Mac OSX and Maxwell in Linux. It provides a

standalone interface that allows users to load MXS scenes to render, view the rendering

progress and adjust render parameters. Many of these parameters can be adjusted while

the render is in progress. When adjusting parameters, the small preview image will show

you the results in real-time.

The core rendering engine interface is opened automatically when a scene is launched to

render.

The MXI format:

The core rendering application also allows users to load MXI les, the Maxwell Render™

native le format. An MXI le is always created when rendering with Maxwell Render™. It

contains high dynamic range image data and other Maxwell Render™ data stored during

the render process.

Information about calculations and the light conditions in your scene is also stored in the

MXI le. This information is extremely important. As long as you have your render in MXI

format, you will always be able to tune your image or resume your render after stopping it.

The MXI le also contains all the info from the camera used to generate that render.

9.01 The core rendering application interface

The core rendering engine offers a complete user interface which is easy to use, exible

and visually attractive. All the panels are dockable so it is easy to customize the interface.

The panels can be re-sized by simply dragging their borders. Fields and sliders will re-

shape to ll spaces, providing more comfort.

You can display the panels as oating panels using the Detach icon, or you can arrange them

in the interface by dragging them to the desired location. The interface will automatically

re-arrange to create space for the new panel. You can also create tabs which hold different

panels by dropping the panel on top of another panel.