

Generating fur using Shave&Haircut in Maya Maya Hair from Maya (more details in this section).The fur and hair generators currently supported by MaxwellHair.mxx are:

It reads the fibers provided by a fur/hair generator (like Shave&Haircut, Maya Hair, Ornatrix, Softimage Hair, etc) and allows them to be rendered by Maxwell Render. It is important to note that MaxwellHair.mxx is not a fur/hair generator.

The MaxwellHair.mxx is located on the extensions subfolder, inside the Maxwell application folder, and must be there to allow Maxwell rendering fibers. Skipping the need of converting millions of fibers into triangles allows you to save a huge amount of space in memory, and reduces the size of the scene files, saving space in disk and transfer time. Maxwell Render uses the MaxwellHair.mxx procedural primitive to be able to read fur and hair fibers (generated by Shave&Haircut, Maya Hair, Ornatrix, etc) and render them without the need to convert the fibers into triangles.
