Next Limit has released an updated Maxwell Render Studio 4.1. Maxwell Render has long had a reputation for its high-quality results, but at the expense of speed. However, this version demonstrates that Next Limit has listened to its users, adding major speed enhancements alongside many other changes.

4.1.1.1 Release Notes - Release date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017:

Maxwell Render

- Fixed: Crash triggered when light names are longer than 31 characters.
Denoiser
- Fixed: Animations ran by command-line overwrites the first frame over and over.
- Fixed: General problems rendering animations + Denoiser.
- Fixed: Demo license does not allow to use the Denoiser properly.
Grass Extension
- Change: default blade type to flat
Xritebrdf Extension
- Fixed: Invalid temporal path for textures.
MaxwellVolumetric Extension
- Fixed: VDB internal transform ignored.
Licensing
- Fixed: Crash in Linux/OSX when no $HOME is defined in the system.

Maxwell Network

- Fixed: Connection failed if Node or Monitor was launched before manager on a IPv6 network.
- Fixed: V4 preferences were stored in v3 config file.