neW FeatuRes
• STACKED LAYERS
Materials can now be stacked on top of each other, much like layers in a photo editing application. Each layer can hold a number
of components and an opacity mask can be used to determine the infuence of each layer. The stacked layers system makes it
much easier to create extremely complex materials and materials that were simple impossible to create in V1.7.

• THINSSS
Subsurface scattering in V2 now has a special mode which can handle single-sided geometry. This mode is very suitable for
leaves, lampshades, paper, and curtains amongst others. The new Thin SSS mode also has the advantage of rendering faster
than normal subsurface scattering.
• NEWNETWORK SYSTEM
• Robust
• More control
• Easier to use; Jobs Wizard.
• Customizable
• NEWUI
• Customizable
• More powerful
• Flexible
• Visually attractive
• Easier to use
• Improved dual-screen viewing
• Viewer in full screen
• Improved help system
• COMPATIBLE WITH REALFLOW
Maxwell Render can generate procedural geometry and meshes at render time, and render individual fuid particles.
• MODO PLUG-IN
• IES&EULUMDAR
IES support and EULUMDAT support.
• COLOR MULTILIGHT
Edit the color of emitters in real time.
• MXM GALLERY INTEGRATION
It is now possible to do a search in the MXM Gallery directly from the MXM browser, making thousands of materials available for
users’ scenes.
• NEW SCRIPTING LANGUAGE
New scripting language for basic rendering tasks.
• Control Multilight
• Automation of tasks
• Batch rendering
• MXI THUMBNAILS
MXI thumbnails visible from Windows Explorer.
• NEW COLOR SPACES SUPPORTED
sRGB, Adobe98, Apple, PAL, NTSC.
• SUPPORT FOR MAC OSX 64BITS
• EW CHANNELS SUPPORTED
• MANY MORE “minor” new features, buttons, and functions.
GeneRal iMpRoVeMents
• SPEED IMPROVEMENTS
Major speed improvements and improvements in noise reduction.
• Optimizations in dielectrics
• Optimizations in caustics
• Optimizations in complex materials
• Optimizations in sky
• Optimizations in IBL/ HDRIs
• Optimizations in mirrors
• Optimizations in emitters
• MAJOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS
• Improvements in roughness/ Fresnel model/ refectance
• Improvements in color output
• Improvements in emitters
• Improvements in dielectrics
• Improvements in bump/ normal mapping
• Improvements in light distribution
• Improvements in sunlight
• Improvements in Sub Surface Scattering
• Improvements in Multilight: Multilight at material level instead of at object level; Better and more interactive UI; Export
to video options improved; New Color Multilight option.
• CHANNELS OUTPUT
New channels supported.
• PIPELINE INTEGRATION
Better adaptation for pipeline integration through the command line.
• Standardization of returned error messages
• Added verbosity levels
• Improved
• MANY MORE “minor” improvements.
iMpRoVeMents in pluG-ins
All Maxwell Render plug-ins have been improved and enhanced. For a complete overview of improvements in each plug-in, please
see the relevant plug-in release notes.
iMpRoVeMents in studio
• STUDIO UI
Major improvements in Studio UI
• More fexibility
• Easier to use
• Dockable panels
• Embedding/ replacing materials
• More powerful
• More effcient
• New wizards
• FILE FORMATS that can be imported.
• FBX format
• Collada format now supported
• BETTER HANDLING of missing textures and fles.
• MANY MORE “minor” improvements.