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[Max] I need help! / [solved] Corona 4 New High Quality filter

« on: 2019-06-14, 16:18:09 »

Regarding the "New High Quality" image sample filtering vs "Old Tent", which one is the new one in the "Type" dropdown under Image filter?

I see Symmetric Tent, Parabolic, Hann, and Blackman-Harris

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Learner’s Corner / Re: WIP Assistance

« on: 2019-06-14, 00:13:14 »

Turn that porch light off, you think money grows on trees?? ;)
 
Looking forward to seeing the revisions as well :D

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: cjwidd render thread

« on: 2019-06-13, 23:24:35 »

those are incredible XD

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Re: Cryptomatte support

« on: 2019-06-13, 18:52:28 »

fyi the new EXR-IO 2.0 plugin supports cryptomattes in Photoshop

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Does the color value affect the diffuse if there is a map assigned to it?

« on: 2019-06-13, 18:15:45 »

Great info all around, and great tip about blending the color into the map via the % values at the bottom. I would always setup mix nodes to do that, thanks!

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[Max] I need help! / Does the color value affect the diffuse if there is a map assigned to it?

« on: 2019-06-12, 16:31:26 »

I've found that having a color value lower than 1.0 in the reflection slot affects the output of the reflection regardless if there is a map in there or not. Is the same true for the diffuse channel?

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General CG Discussion / Previewing PBR materials in real-time on a webpage

« on: 2019-06-07, 19:26:23 »

I want to have my own personal material library available online where the materials can be viewed like this:

https://source.substance3d.com/assets/16b21214d928f89d16e92b9e5324a95e903a2895?player=true

What is the best way to export this out of max and have it display on a webpage like this? So far I've stumbled on babylon.js which seems pretty robust.

https://doc.babylonjs.com/resources/3dsmax_to_gltf

Does anyone have insight on a workflow to get something like this working?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Substance materials broken rendering with 3ds max 2019 (blue node wires?)

« on: 2019-06-05, 21:30:08 »

ok false alarm, turned out to be coordinate issues on the mesh. So are the blue wires normal?

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[Max] I need help! / [solved] Substance materials broken with 3ds max 2019 (blue node wires?)

« on: 2019-06-05, 21:17:53 »

I'm trying to bring in a Substance material to use with Corona and am having trouble. When do a Substance Batch Import and then run Substance to Corona, some of the wires are blue and missing some Map Output nodes and the material doesn't render correctly. When I run those in 2018, the wires seem fine, but it still doesn't render correctly.

Any ideas? I have uninstalled and re-installed the Substance plugin for 3ds max. I'm using Corona 3 (build Nov 21 2018). 3ds max 2019 version 21.0.0.845

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[Max] I need help! / Re: How can I see Corona light material texture on 3ds max viewport?

« on: 2019-05-16, 18:22:38 »

My way around this is to put the color to black

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[Max] I need help! / Plugging Quixel maps into Corona

« on: 2019-05-16, 17:06:55 »

I can't find a straight forward explanation of where Quixel maps are supposed to go in a Corona material.

Here is what I understand and don't:

Albedo - diffuse
AO - multiply over diffuse if needed
Bump - additional bump
Cavity - ??
Displacement - displacement
Gloss - gloss
Normal - bump
Roughness - ?? (works as gloss if inverted)
Specular - reflection?

Sometimes there is a "metallic" map, where does that go?

This is an interesting thread but it's hard for me to parse: https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,10436.0.html. There is a .zip attachment in that thread that has "Corona.jxs" and "Corona.xml" in it, what are those for?

Let me know if there are other guides for Quixel and Corona workflows that I missed, thanks!

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[Max] Tutorials & Guides / Re: HOWTO: Create Texture Maps with Frequency Separation

« on: 2019-05-16, 16:56:47 »

Does this spreadsheet exist somewhere else? The link is broken

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[Max] I need help! / Re: LUTs and render elements

« on: 2019-05-16, 16:12:20 »

Great, thank you! Please check about the sharpening/blurring being applied to the render elements too, that one is harder to test. Right now I just have it turned off in case it does, but it would be nice to know.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Saving embedded .exr files in 3dsmax

« on: 2019-05-16, 16:09:30 »

I haven't tried this with any other renderers

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[Max] I need help! / Re: LUTs and render elements

« on: 2019-05-10, 17:41:36 »

I had assumed that the LUT was only applied to the beauty pass, but after noticing my comp looked like it was double up LUTs I dug into it. So then does it apply sharpening/blurring to all the AOVs too?