Max exporter

[Radiance]

First clayrender test of upcoming plugin:

01default.png

Time: 03h 00min, AthlonX2 3800+ 2 Gb RAM, Preset: interior from luxblend

little comparison, maybe I use wrong Lux settings:

Comparison.jpg

yeah, that's raw path tracing, i don't think the max plugin is correctly configured yet,
perpixel, maybe you can adopt the cnfiguration presets and the default MLT/bidir from the luxblend presets ?
you'll find the parameters in the top section of the luxblend py file

Radiance

[patro]

hi klemar,
in your: First clayrender test of up..........................,
probably you have to flip some faces(in black).
jinj

[PerPixel]

I will be adding presets this week. I don't have time to plug everything in the UI yet so I'll just hardcode them with a dropdown list.

I have a bit of trouble setting a task list and priorities right now. Still soooo much to do. If anyone has suggestion on a road map to get most used feature that people actually really need let me know.

[Radiance]

I will be adding presets this week. I don't have time to plug everything in the UI yet so I'll just hardcode them with a dropdown list.

I have a bit of trouble setting a task list and priorities right now. Still soooo much to do. If anyone has suggestion on a road map to get most used feature that people actually really need let me know.

i think to get the basics working:

lights:

'arealight'
'sunsky' (with portals)

materials:

'matte'
'glossy'
'glass'
'roughglass'
'mattetranslucent'
'roughglass'

samplers:

'metropolis' (default)
'lowdiscrepancy'

integrators:

'bidirectional' (default)
'path'

accelerators:

'kdtree' (default)

pixelfilters:

'mitchell' (default)
'gaussian'

textures:

'blackbody' (default for lights)
'constant' (eg RGB color, default for textures)
'imagemap'

that should give you a reasonable/useable start, from there on, just keep adding all the others
if you synchronize the naming/layout and visual concept of luxblend, it will be easiest for us to support it.
then just reuse/copy all the render presets with the recommended preset as default (mlt/bidir)

Good luck!,
Radiance

[PerPixel]

Look like in on a good track. I'll see if I can get the sunsky and portals in real quick. It was at the bottom on my list

Materials and textures are quite easy to had now. If anyone is interested to work on that, its all done in maxscript and you just have to start from one of my template material / texture.

[Radiance]

can you also think of a name or working name for your exporter ?
it makes administrative stuff for forums, downloads, repos etc easier

Radiance

[PerPixel]

LuxMax I guess if no objections

[Radiance]

sounds good to me!

i'll update the forum name.

Radiance

[Asylum]

Hello all.

My name is David and am currently really interested in Lux. This may be a solution for a current Indie game cg trailer that is currently in production. We have had a major issue finding a renderer that is free and can be used in a render farm with unlimited nodes.
The trailer is still in early production, but if we can get this to work, Lux will defiantly be credited in the credits.

Being the Modeling Director of the Indie game I spend a lot of time doing research and this seems to be a good fit.

Oh if any of you are interested the game is Aero Empire. We are hoping to release the trailer in the coming months and I am hoping Lux is a part of that. The game will be free upon release just like Lux.

To the individuals who are working on the Max plug-in.. THANK-YOU! We use max natively for the game and this was great news for us.

Anyway once I start getting familiar with Lux and the plug- in I promise I will give you tons of feed back.

David

[PerPixel]

Thank you for the support. Good luck with your game. Its very hard to complete game but so fun too. I'm doing that myself in other spare time heh.