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Maxwell Render　1.5 がアップデートしました。
1.5.1になった模様。
以下、リリースノート
RELEASE NOTES
MXCL
- General stability improved
- Fixed issue with motion blur that caused Maxwell to crash
- Fixed black dots when texture coordinates are invalid
- Fixed shift lens with idmaterial and idobject channels
- Now possible to save 0 threads in the scene file
- Fixed normal mapping issue
- Added control to choose camera view from UI (also available from the
network)
- Fixed crash when loading some old MXI files
- Internal enhancements in materials to fix some cross platform issues
Network:
- Fixed occasional network cooperative merging issue when using more
than 4 nodes
- Fixed “merging mxi” text state. When merging finished it now says
“waiting for others”
- Fixed display cooperative when some nodes already ended render
- Many improvements in network in OSX
MXST/MXED:
- Fixed camera/save issue when saving in perspective mode
- MXCL can be launched from Studio in demo mode
- Objects library menu option loads MXS files contained in subfolders of
the “objects library” folder
- Fixed bug overwriting geometries involving naming conflicts
- Fixed recalculate and reverse normal vectors on multiple selections
- Improved searches for missing IOR files
- Fixed crash when using scaling handles in 2D views
- Memory enhancements loading large scenes
- Fixed crash dragging groups
- Importing MXM files does not modify the material selection
- Fixed some UI issues
- When MXCL is launched, Studio displays a warning message in the
console when the output image path is not writable
- Blow-up renders at camera resolution instead of at viewport resolution
- Fixed scale gizmo with cubic projectors
- Import MXM allows multiselection to import more than one material at
the same time
- More robust license.txt reader
- Fixed renaming groups
- Fixed command line options which were not saved in MXS
- Fixed issue with importing a MXS which used to reset the environment
location
- Preference added to scroll to an item when it is selected in the
viewport
- Fixed an issue loading some tga textures in material editor
- Fixed key shortcut conflicts with Key_G (show grid)
- Ctrl + A selects all in all the lists and text fields
Textures/UV sets
- Fixed issues in some special cases when “Autocreate uv sets” generated
invalid texture coordinates.
- Fixed “Normalize” and “Adjust to object” functions in UV sets
- Multiple UV sets on an object can be selected and edited
simultaneously. When there is a multiple selection in the UV sets panel
all the UVS of all the selected objects appear and can be edited at the
same time
OpenGL/Display
- OpenGL transparency is now properly refreshed after closing the
preferences dialog
- Fixed disable transparencies
- Fixed artifact in grid
- Fixed switching from smooth to planar with vertex buffer objects
enabled
- Enhancements in OpenGL textures area. Modified the preference to scale
textures in viewport to use only preferred values
Importers
- OBJ importer accepts not only triangles but also quads. It is not
needed anymore to triangulate OBJ files before importing.
- Fixed crash after reading some 3ds files
- Fixed DXF import scale option
- Fixed crash saving after importing STL files
- Fixed pivot and camera position in 3DS loader
- Added name conflicts dialog to 3DS/DXF/OBJ/FBX formats
- Fixed 3DS/FBX loaders
- Fixed automatic UV creation when importing OBJ files
OSX:
- Fixed issue with paths
- Fixed wrong color in textures table in material editor
- Fixed crash in studio selecting/dragging triangle groups
MXED:
- Fixed MXED can save a material as “untitled.mxm” after using some
advance wizards
- Fixed MXED does not ask for a name to save when the current name is
“untitled.mxm”
- Added “Save and close” button to MXED so it is not needed to save the
material before closing it.
- New keyboard shortcuts added
KNOWN ISSUES
MXCL
- Rendering on 64 bits systems might not be able to make use of all the
cores
- ID Object and ID material channels generate noise when used on
transparent objects
MXST/MXED:
- Blow up render through Studio works at camera resolution instead of at
viewport resolution
Sky:
- This patch does not include an update for the Maxwell Render
sky model. The current sky is not just a matter of rightness and
physical correctness, but subject to personal taste. Many clients need
this patch to fix some critical issues while working on images, but they
do not want to change their images and need the sky to stay the same.
Thus we have refrained from a radical change in the look& feel of the
software in this small update. The Maxwell Render development team is
presently working on a radically improved physical sky model.

Maxwell Render 1.5 のベンチマークを試してみました。
AthlonMP1800+Dual　かなり古い…orz　2h29m15s
M~W 1.5 List | Download Instructions | Add Your Results
最新のマシンにすると10倍速くなるんだなぁと。
見積もってみたらモニタ無しで70万円でした。。。orz
頑張って貯めるか。
ベンチ結果を見て気になったのが、
64bitで統一していても32bitと大差無いということ（むしろ遅い）。
メモリをたくさん使える以外利点は無いのでしょうか？
もしくは、まだ最適化出来てないということなのかなと。