Next Limit has announced the upcoming release of v4 of its renderer. New features include:  

• GPU rendering – the new engine runs on NVidia graphic cards. All the technology under the hood is identical to the classic CPU engine – which means your images are exactly the same.


• Maxwell Multilight Standalone – save infinite lighting variations from one single render
  
  
  
  • Lighting setups in real time
  
  
  • Work faster by editing lights before and after the render finishes
  
  
  • Create a lighting catalog for your client
  
  
  • Automatically update your catalog with different lighting positions or geometry
  
  
  
  


• New materials gallery – the renovated gallery features a hand-picked selection of high-quality, optimized Maxwell materials ready to use in your scenes. You can search using the usual tags, such as wood, plastic or metal, but also by performance level – so that you can filter materials depending on your exact needs.


• Rhino for Mac support – new Rhino for Mac plugin workflow, providing a live-link between Rhino and Maxwell Studio


• Significantly improved Revit integration

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