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Sorry to bother you Tom, still no updates on the roadmap.
I'm really interested to see where Corona develepoment is heading for version 13.
Hi everyone,
I know how frustrating it can be with those random crashes...still looking for solutions. I have just added TX Version in the Free Scene, for people to test out. This TX textures were already included in Retail 2 and Lobby 1 packs, but I haven't heard anyone use them yet, and what were their results.
I would really appreciate it if you guys could give it a try, please not, delete all the EXR planes in your scenes, otherwise it will not count as a test because OSL might crash again using any EXR texture. So please only test with those TX OSL planes in your scene, create alot of planes (like at least 40-50), please also create not just instances, but also many copies, to have some variations.
If you have Lobby pack 1 or Retail 2, please also try only using TX OSL planes and let me know how it goes, when I was testing the TX textures it worked well, especially the 2K ones, the mipmapping is automatically reducing the size of the texture from 2K to tiny size when viewed from far away. If those TX textures are successful and people have no crashes, then I plan to convert all wParallax to this format.
Free Scene: https://wparallax.gumroad.com/l/YyRmU
Best regards,
Art Maknev
I remember when Autodesk announced their major "Small Annoying Things" 3dsmax campaign, where after years of angry commenting from customers they finally understood that we wanted all those small but workflow-slowing bugs, weirdnesses, or lack of vital tools to be fixed/implemented. They held various user group meetings with their department head(s) (I was at one in London) to actually get this feedback 1:1. It never quite hit the mark fully but it was a great period and had a very noticeably positive impact on 3dsmax, and I think the attitude has carried forward there ever since. Naturally, the issue nowadays over there is a massive lack of innovation within 3dsmax, so it could certainly be fairly argued it's gone too far the other way!
Anyway, it's something to think about. I've often wondered if Corona development would be better handled by making existing-feature improvements, bug fixes just like this happen to point version updates/hotfixes e.g. 12.1, 12.2 etc. and saving the new feature updates for major versions (and not necessarily every major version). In that way perhaps it would be possible to delay major new features being worked on and pivot development to addressing sometimes very serious bugs within the current major version in a hotfix - as many as needed - maybe 2, 3 or 4 x. In recent times there have been instances where potentially show-stopping bugs have had to be left for some future major version update because it's too late to shoehorn it in, causing frustration in the userbase (reasonably so...). As a studio, we have completely skipped 2 or 3 major versions of Corona (maybe 8, definitely 12) because of this situation. And if that reminds anyone of how many of us work with 3dsmax then I'm not surprised! Since 3ds max 2008 or so we have ignored every other version, because it's pretty well-known that the odd-versions are usually where the bulk of new features are introduced, and the even version is where they're bug-fixed and optimised... in a production environment that's critical stuff.... We don't and can't work with flakey software. C12 has proven a bit of a nightmare judging by many accounts on this forum, so we've skipped it. Not something we want to have to do, ever.
Maybe we could have additional colour bias control which would shift tiles/grout colour transition point to either direction, because most of the times you want tile walls to have either one colour, or another, but not a smooth gradient. Beanzvision's method if it works, it does so in very specific case, which is hardly practical at all.
I think if you lower the gap thickness in the displacement tile to something low like .001 it should work. I'm new to Max also so I could be wrong ;)
