Maxwell Render 3.1.1 Release Notes

Maxwell

• Improvements in preprocess and voxelization time
• Fixed potential crash with blocked emitters
• Fixed blocked emitters were not working with references
• Fixed objects could disappear or show invalid transformations in FIRE in some extreme scenarios
• Support for hair with tip radius greater than root radius
• Fixed crash deleting instances with excluded lights
• Change in multilight sliders range for IBL
• Fixed SSS brightness with IBL in some scenarios
• Fixed token %mwchannel% that was not working properly
• Hair material dependencies issues fixed
• Better support for blade normals in Grass primitives
• Improved support for IES and EULUMDAT files with lines longer than 256 characters
• Fixed instances of references with multiple objects were only instancing first element 
• Fixed preview window was ignoring camera response if Multilight was enabled
• Added new command line flag -affinity [auto/manual] to override thread affinity (true by default, Maxwell overrides thread affinity)
• Fixed root & tip was half of expected in flat and curve grass/hair primitives
• Fixed render failed when grass/hair flat primitive had zero tip width
• Fixed memory leak with procedural textures
• Fixed crash when converting an image file to MXI format

Studio

• Fixed UI issue when having MXM references (the item shown in the stack properties and the item selected could get out of sync)
• Fixed UI issue that allowed to set IES/Spot emitters with Temperature
• Fixed Animation tool forced longitude/latitude sun position
• Fixed Animation tool forced jpg image output 
• Fixed camera roll angle was wrong when entering negative values
• Fixed RealFlow bin meshes loader was failing in some cases

PyMaxwell

• Fixed crash after running getObjectNames() causing scene corruption
• Useless parameter for getNumCustomAlphaChannels() has been removed
• Fixed crash on getPath() when the path is empty