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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: New Corona Lister Feedback

« on: 2023-08-08, 11:05:01 »

Lister doesn't seem to detect Corona Light Materials that are inside of Multi-Sub Materials

Hi,

Thanks for reporting, it's a known issue and should be fixed in v11.

(Internal ID=1150842398)

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Disable ACES Output Transform by default in Corona Image Editor

« on: 2023-08-02, 09:23:40 »

Hi,

Just informing you that unfortunately, we cannot do anything about this. We don't have any control over what data is saved into the exr, therefore when loaded into the CIE the default TM pipeline will be applied.

As stated above, we would advise using CXRs in this situation.

Cheers,

Rowan

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: VFB Slowdown

« on: 2023-07-24, 11:38:04 »

Hi,

That is strange, we tried this in our office with a range of systems and GPUs (including 1050ti and 650ti) and we cannot reproduce this at all.

I will ask someone from our support team to get back in contact with you and see how we can investigate this further.

Thanks,

Rowan

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Discrepancy between Corona 9 and 10

« on: 2023-07-14, 14:45:16 »

Hi,

Will be addressed in the upcoming HF. Please bare with us.

Cheers,

Rowan

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: VFB Slowdown

« on: 2023-07-12, 15:00:41 »

Hi,

Either should be fine. Only if you have problems with one, you can try the other.

Thanks,

Rowan

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 11 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Changelog

« on: 2023-07-10, 14:54:18 »

Please check this article covering the risks of using daily builds: Daily Builds FAQ
If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
corona-11-3dsmax-daily-2023-07-10.exe

Note: All changes in this build will be released in a v10 Hotfix

General

• Fixed issue where Cosmos freezes 3ds Max if closed too quickly after start.
• Fixed issue where using "Camera physical size" with UHD/4K cache led to freeze.
• Fixed issue where using "Camera physical size" sometimes broke object picking from VFB.
• Fixed issue where CIE crashes after deleting Curves tone mapping operator with an opened editor.
• Fixed issue where creating a region during pre-rendering phases led to a crash.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Chaos Corona 11 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2023-07-10, 13:46:38 »

Chaos Corona 11 for 3ds Max Daily Builds Discussion

You can grab the latest build from: Daily Builds Changelog

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[Max] Daily Builds / Chaos Corona 11 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Changelog

« on: 2023-07-10, 13:42:11 »

For all information about the daily builds and the download link, see: Daily Builds FAQ

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Scatter Edge Trimming Playground!

« on: 2023-07-07, 14:59:59 »

Didn't know that Scatter for Corona was different than Scatter for V-Ray. I recently started to use V-Ray GPU and noted that it already has "Edge Trimming" as a simple checkbox. Wasn't Scatter a Corona tool initially? How is it that V-Ray team managed to implement this option faster than Corona? This has been requested many times here.

Hi,

this is coming for Corona, too. However some work is needed on the renderer's side to implement this as a simple checkbox and the V-Ray team was a bit quicker than us ;)

I hope this clears things up.

Rowan

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: New Corona Lister Feedback

« on: 2023-07-07, 14:55:37 »

Can you add a list renaming feature?

Hi,

How would this work for instances? You can already rename objects in the lister with a double click.

Thanks

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: VFB Slowdown

« on: 2023-07-07, 14:11:39 »

Hey,

I've been looking into this. Could you try installing the latest Nvidia drivers and see if that helps: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Please also run windows update and install any missing updates :)

If it doesn't help, I will continue to investigate this.

Cheers!

Rowan

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 10 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2023-06-14, 19:02:07 »

When volume effect is enabled inside of CoronaSky, clouds are being cut with straight line. Is that considered as bug ? I dont think its a feature, looks very unnatural.

Volume effect and clouds are currently not supported together.

We have it logged, but don't have any ETA on when it might be fixed.

Thanks,

Rowan

(Internal ID=959673718)

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 10 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2023-06-13, 12:25:07 »

Good day guys, I think corona RC3 is having issues reding licenses for nodes in backburner and DR, have made test with 4 scenes, 3 simple and one complex, same result, also AMD threadripper performance has drop considerably, in some cases my 3090x is giving me bigger times than my 3970x and even more crazy, an i9 9900k gave me similar results as the 3090x, also test in RC2 and got same results, Also constant drops and DR but in backburner the RC2 was reading the licenses fine,  ill try to upload more info but Im in a deadline right now

That's pretty concerning. The team does have Threadripper guy (Neic), but he's on Cinema4D). There definitely should be more testing done on big platforms given their peculiarities. Every once in a while, either due to Corona, or Windows/Corona something the performance on big Threadrippers (32+, mostly the 64-core) dives to 50perc.

Hi,

We do indeed test on these platforms. So far in our tests, we did not experience anything like this.
If possible @VASLAVO can you send over a scene and we can investigate?

Thanks,

Rowan

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 10 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Changelog

« on: 2023-06-12, 16:33:59 »

Please check this article covering the risks of using daily builds: Daily Builds FAQ
If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
chaos-corona-10-3dsmax-RC3.exe

General

• Improved warning messages when using physical camera exposure control.

Listers

• Added undo support.
• Added tooltips.
• Category title bar now stands out more.
• Fixed issue where lister was showing right-click menu also after right click on a parameter editor.

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue where CIE did not ask to save changes on exit after changing tone mapping settings.
• Fixed issue where CIE "Reset" button reset tone mapping to default instead of the settings stored in the loaded .CXR.
• Fixed viewport display of CoronaBitmap with Mirror tiling option.
• Fixed issue where some translucent Cosmos assets did not have translucent material when imported.
• Fixed issue where displacement could be sometimes applied on a geometry when exporting it into a proxy file.
• Fixed not showing Corona logo in several error message boxes.

Scatter

• Fixed crash when plugging normal bump or falloff map into the edge trimming map while running IR.
• Improved handling of bad meshes retrieved from 3ds Max. Fixed related crashes.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Prevent proxies from displaying as flickering boxes in viewport animation

« on: 2023-06-08, 15:15:35 »

Hi,

After some deeper discussion with the devs. It appears it is really not possible to improve this behaviour.

It can either be like this, with the lazy loading which causes the flickering. Or lock up 3ds max until all of the proxies in your scene are loaded for that frame. Depending on the number of proxies this could be several seconds.

I hope you understand our reasoning behind this.

Rowan