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Maxwell Render Reviews & Product Details

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Stepan V.
SV
Stepan V.
Freelance Architect
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Stepan"
2.5/5
What do you like best about Maxwell Render?

Easy to change and customize the materials Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maxwell Render?

The quality and time of render. The final image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Architecture & Planning
UA
Verified User in Architecture & Planning
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to use and great interface"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Maxwell Render?

The interface is very easy to use and to learn. It has flexibility in changing materials and updating etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maxwell Render?

It takes a long time to process a render and uses up a lot of space Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Design
UD
Verified User in Design
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best rendering software I've tried."
5/5
What do you like best about Maxwell Render?

Easy to render. Looks like realistic. The best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maxwell Render?

None. The software is really good for rendering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Architecture & Planning
UA
Verified User in Architecture & Planning
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Maxwell, although harder to learn than Vray, can accomplish incredible renders"
4/5
What do you like best about Maxwell Render?

Pretty unparalleled quality and lighting options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maxwell Render?

Harder entry to learn than Vray or Keyshot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
UE
Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Perfect for rendering"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Maxwell Render?

The perfection and originality of the materials Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maxwell Render?

It is little bit expensive compared to others but it’s worth it though Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Architecture & Planning
UA
Verified User in Architecture & Planning
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Professional and very interesting"
4/5
What do you like best about Maxwell Render?

The views and perspectives really show a lot of details and realism. They bring your project to life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maxwell Render?

I think some landscaping ideas could improve their renders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MB
Mark B.
Principal
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Maxwell 5 - highend realism with unbiased rendering"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Maxwell Render?

1. Very high quality with minimum effort. The software is different to traditional renderers and essentially works of good use of the camera(s), lighting and advanced materials, 2. It's flexible and relatively easy to use and learn, 3. It supports a wide range of AEC, artist and film/media formats and add-on software, 4. It's established and has been around for over a decade, 5. It's reasonably priced and includes additional floating licenses and/or nodes. It's available as a standalone package or works via an add-on to a number of industry software. 6. The people behind Maxwell at Next Limit listen to user requests and often include these in updates/upgrades, 7. There's a large amount of free supporting information - training materials, examples, a free online material library etc. 8. Maxwell allows you to stop a render, save it, then resume the same render at another time/date. The software adopts an unusual but effect method allowing users to render either by setting a time period or level of quality. This adds great flexibility in the workflow and has been a great feature, 9. It includes a Multilight feature which allows post 'rendering' by changing any lighting (ambient, artificial etc.) after the render has finished and works almost real time depending on your hardware. This allows you to change a daylight scene to a night scene and everything in between from a single render, outputting addition images or lighting animations, 10. It's an unbiased renderer so the images are 'real'. You don't have to rely on faking the setup to get the image as the environment uses real world settings including materials, 11. It includes Maxwell FIRE as a real time pre-render feedback so you can see instant changes in the workflow, 12. It imports our CAD and BIM data without errors. We've tried other software over the years and there's been issues in the integrity of the data between transfers, 13. It supports referenced assets (xrefs) allowing large scenes to be built using external files which speeds up the render and workflow process, 14. We get consistently good images from Maxwell and our clients make positive comments on our work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maxwell Render?

1. It was slow to adopt the GPU option for rendering which has only just been released in v5, 2. The inbuilt animation options are limited requiring other specific software for dedicated animations, 3. It lacks an established library of drag and drop assets to populate scenes requiring the user to create their own fully featured scenes, 4. Due to its high end realism it needs a system with grunt. It still works with your 'average' desktop but renders take longer. There's a lot of newer renderers coming onto the market based on game engines which reduce the number of polygons on their models. These appear to create good images and work much faster but when you compare the quality of the images Maxwell's realism stands out. I guess each office has to determine what output they are aiming for when selecting the right software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Architecture & Planning
UA
Verified User in Architecture & Planning
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"say you change computer or your motherboard breaks twice, that's it. unless i buy another copy"
0/5
What do you like best about Maxwell Render?

its a con- I changed computer - that's one instal then the motherboard broke twice that's 3. and now I have a new motherboard and oh dear sorry you can use that software any longer unless you buy another copy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maxwell Render?

I can't use it any more without upgrading Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AE
Amy E.
Architect
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Maxwell is a decent cheap rendering plugin"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Maxwell Render?

It is very easy and quick. Has some customizable options. Good shadows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maxwell Render?

It crashes quite a bit. Only works well with Sketchup. Not great for final renderings. Quality isn’t amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Architecture & Planning
UA
Verified User in Architecture & Planning
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Go to product that works effectively."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Maxwell Render?

The most helpful thing about Maxwell Render is that it gives me the ability to produce high quality results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maxwell Render?

The least helpful thing about Maxwell Render is there is no GPU rendering support for Macs, which is what I prefer to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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