Advance Release to Clients on 6/19/2008. Upcoming Public Release to come.

Many improvements, and new features - a new Sub-Surface Scattering component and new Physical Sky system, improvements to Material Editor, A new Cinemaxwell Plugin, and improvements to Maxwell Studio.

Images below show the following SSS presets that I created: Jade Glass, Jade MTM, and Beeswax. The last image is a sky preset that I made that is called "San Francisco Fog". The Beeswax, Jade Glass and San Francisco Fog Presets are included with 1.7 Release.

Some experiments with a technique to make stack of rocks in Vue 6 throughout a 3D host volume. Combined with blending of rock materials and vegetation through material settings and ecosystem for rocks and plants.