NextLimit Maxwell 5 version 5.0.6 for Maya

COMPATIBILITY:
- Built for Maxwell Render version 5.0.2.21.
- Added support for Maya 2020.
- Added support for MacOS operating system.
IMPROVED:
- Added an option to activate or deactivate the Grass, Scatter or Subdivision extensions per node. You will find a new dropdown at the top part of their parameters panel.
- Now the Maya’s File Path Editor tool also takes into account referenced mxs and mxm files so the user can now repath some or all of them to a different folder (this doesn't affect the paths of the textures or referenced inside those mxm or mxs files). This was already working for the textures used in the scene.
- The exporter to Studio only exported what was selected; now, if there are objects selected, only the selected objects will be exported and, if there is nothing selected, everything will be exported.
- When exporting to Studio, no camera was included; now, if there are objects selected, only the selected cameras will be exported and, if nothing is selected, all of them will be exported; in both cases, the active camera will be exported. When launching a render, only the active camera is sent.
- Export to Studio, Pack and Go, File > Export and File > Export Selection now is exporting the group hierarchy to the mxs file. The mxs file generated when rendering will still be flat (so it exports the smallest file possible).
- Export to Studio, Pack and Go, File > Export and File > Export Selection now is exporting the hidden geometry and their materials.
- When exporting to Studio now the environment settings are also exported.
- If no path was specified for storing the mxs file, the export to Studio, Network or Maxwell Cloud commands failed; now an untitled.mxs will be saved in one of these folders depending on the operating system:
. Windows: C:\Users\<username>Documents\maya\projects\default\scenes\maxwell\
. MacOS: ~/Documents/maya/projects/default/scenes/maxwell/
- The viewport preview of the sky was projected onto a too-small sphere so when the camera clips were active the preview of the sky could disappear. Now the sphere is bigger and will work better in most of the scenes.
- The naming and icons of the Maxwell nodes now are more specific; these have been improved: Grass, Scatter, Maxwell Reference, Sea, Sky Preview, Bin Object, RFRK Object and RFRK Particles.
FIXED:
- The “Update from File” button in a referenced material made the corresponding faces disappear in Fire.
- Fire was not stopped when a normal render was launched.
- The Pack and Go tool was not exporting the .mxs file or the Maya scene file in the selected location.
- The plugin could generate Maxwell materials with the texture slot active but without a texture inside; this could make the GPU engine fail.
- Maxwell Sea was not exported when using the export selection method.
- Maxwell Scatter typo: Length Map should say Scale Map
- Fixed obsolete code.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- On Mac, mxs references, proxies and extensions (grass, scatter, sea,…) may not display correctly in the viewport and may produce some instability.

The minimum system requirements for Maxwell Render are as follows:

- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016.
- 2 GHz Intel Core2 processor, AMD Athlon 64 or better
- 1GB RAM minimum. 16 GB of RAM memory is highly recommended
- 1.7 GB available hard disk space for installation
- Accelerated OpenGL drivers
- 3 button mouse recommended