The video at the top of the story shows the GPU version of Fire being used to preview a scene with over 3 million triangles, although there’s no information about which graphics card is being used. Performance is a key focus of the update, with speed increases in both preview and final-quality rendering.įire, the software’s interactive render preview, is “now faster and optimized to update instantly”. The release is the first significant update to Maxwell in some time: Maxwell 4.0 came out in 2016, and the last bugfix update was over 18 months ago.Ī performance-focused update, for both preview and final-quality rendering The release also updates the user interface to display better on modern Hi-DPI displays.
Next Limit has released Maxwell 5.0, the next major update to its physically based spectral renderer, adding multi-GPU support, integrated cloud rendering, and a V-Ray scene importer. Scroll down for details of the 5.2 update.
