A Maxwell Wiki (it maybe worth starting a PhotoWorks version)

I've just started a Maxwell Wiki which can be found at
http://maxwellwiki.solidengineering.co.nz



There is little content on it at the moment, contributions are very welcome.



A PhotoWorks Wiki -- might be a good starting point for a virtual User
Group - If anyone is willing to host it, I can provide some limited advice
(limited that is by my lack of knowledge)



A copy of the Maxwell forum post below


" Well -- I'm not sure what I'm doing but I've just created a Wiki on my
website for the purpose of increasing the knowledge of the Maxwell Render
community.

http://maxwellwiki.solidengineering.co.nz

If this Wiki becomes popular (there is currently only 100Mb's available)
I'll set up a new website to host it or transfer it to someone better
qualified to run it, if not I'll delete it.

The Wiki is essentially blank, at this point, except for a temporary Logo I
have inserted into the upper left (my logo). The Logo should be changed,
maybe a competition to create a Logo?

The only rules (I can think of at the moment, open to suggestions):-

1/ No copyright material used without permission.
2/ Negative comments about members of Next Limit or other users will be
deleted and the users name and IP address will be banned.

There are three account types, limited description of rights follows:-

User = edit pages (default)
Sysop = delete undelete pages, lock pages
Bureaucrat = can change a user into a Sysop

All "A Team" members and Jdp (since it was his idea) will be granted
Bureaucrat/Sysop rights if they PM me their Wiki login names. Others will be
added to the Bureaucrats list by popular demand.

WikiMedia User Guide
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents

Further reading on rights.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Setting_user_rights_in_MediaWiki#User_rights_levels

Any advice on maintaining or adding features to the Wiki environment will be
gratefully accepted."

John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

Nice one! I'm going to bookmark it as so far I'm getting diddly-squat from
Maxwell - LONG render times just to preview stuff and fuzzy images.

Have you got any Solidworks tutorials you'd like to share? I REALLY dont
want to have to learn another interface etc, which was why I though Maxwell
would be really good. I want to hit GO from Solidworks and not have to mess
around in another environment......

Look forward to reading the Wiki (what does it mean?)

 

You can get renders with Maxwell straight out of SolidWorks-- but if you
want to apply textures it's worth exporting to Studio. The texturing
limitation is because of the crapy way SolidWorks handles textures and
apparently even SolidWorks 2007 hasn't changed that.

Maxwell does take a long time to render but the images are more realistic.
Maxwell allows 4 cores per license i.e. a dual socket CPU machine with 2
dual core CPUs installed or you can network render to reduce render times.

I do plan on adding some SolidWorks tutorials at some stage when work slows
down, someone else may get to it first.

A Wiki is a publicly editable website / database "The simplest online
database that could possibly work", log on and edit it with any web browser.
A Wiki and this Wiki in particular will only work if people edit it on a
continual basis, edits are easily undone if someone vandalizes a site and
the user / IP address responsible is easily banned by a Sysop or Bureaucrat.

This particular Wiki uses MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org the same Wiki
Software that powers Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page I
chose this particular Wiki software as the installation instructions were
idiot proof I'm learning as I go.


John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz