Scarab

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Scarab is a set of components that exposes Maxwell Render materials to Grasshopper. Materials can be assigned and baked to Grasshopper geometry.

mxBake is the final tool in the chain. Use the Grasshopper bake commands to bake the connected geometry with the corresponding materials.

mxDiff is a simple diffuse material. Only reflectance color for 0° and 90° are exposed.

mxEmit is a basic emitter material. You can set light color, power and efficiacy of the emitter.

mxBasic is the most complex material for now. You can set all the properties of a single layer material including. Use this for transparent materials.

mList is your way if you don't want to create your own materials. This component returns a list of all the materials on the Maxwell scene manager. Make sure this is evaluated after you add your own materials if you want to see them in the list.

Website: http://www.food4rhino.com/project/scarab
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Discussion Forum

exporting mxs files 2 Replies

hi hannes,very nice plugin ....in case you are planning more updates ;) it would be great to be able to export ("bake") mxs files ... (connected to boolian switch or number slider) for animation…Continue

Started by Kloppstock. Last reply by Kloppstock Nov 1, 2012.

Geometry Bake Automation

Hi Hannes,Such a nice plugin! Thank you so much. I have a suggestion for the next update.This is really nice that materials get updated real time. I was wondering if you want to automate the geometry…Continue

Started by Mostapha Sadeghipour Sep 11, 2012.

Loading .mxm files 2 Replies

Hi!Thanx Hannes for this great plugin!I'm pretty new in rendering with maxwell and I wonder if it's possible to load directly a .mxm file in scarab?Or do we have to recreate each material from the…Continue

Tags: rendering, scarab, maxwell

Started by Julien Ybert. Last reply by Julien Ybert Apr 14, 2012.