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[Max] I need help! / Re: Discrepency between Beauty and Light Mix

« on: Today at 12:49:30 »

DCC is Digital Content Creation or in this case Creator - ie, 3ds Max or C4D with associated version number :)

Cool, I'll include all info in the support ticket.  Uploading now

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Discrepency between Beauty and Light Mix

« on: Today at 11:16:33 »

Will do.  I've also got a another issue/bug with this scene.  Can I report it in the same ticket?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Discrepency between Beauty and Light Mix

« on: Today at 10:26:22 »

Hey, can you try with Corona 11 HF 2, just to be sure? because there were some changes related to color and removal of gamma operator.

Hi Avi, no luck I'm afraid.  The issue persists with HF2

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Discrepency between Beauty and Light Mix

« on: Yesterday at 22:12:16 »

Corona and DCC version?

Corona 11 Hotfix 1 - not sure what you mean by DCC

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Discrepency between Beauty and Light Mix

« on: Yesterday at 22:10:19 »

I always found this to be the case as well, although very minor, so I never really even bothered to do PS overlay to check. I thought it's byproduct of some order-of-operation or layering method, etc..

Yeh it's more obvious when you view the whole image, but I think even that crop is signifcant enough.  If its perceptible just from switching from Light Mix to Beauty in the frame buffer then it needs fixing imo

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Discrepency between Beauty and Light Mix

« on: Yesterday at 20:56:27 »

Open these two on top of each other in PS and switch between the layers.  They're not identical and they should be.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Discrepency between Beauty and Light Mix

« on: Yesterday at 18:22:36 »

there are other lights in the scene but everything is turned off.  I turned 'Rest' off anyway just incase it was picking up any of the other lights that were turned off.

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[Max] I need help! / Discrepency between Beauty and Light Mix

« on: Yesterday at 17:54:09 »

I've just setup light mix.  The scene only has 3 lights.  I've not adjusted any setttings yet in lightmix, just separated out the lights.  But there is a difference between the beauty pass and the light mix pass.  The shadows are lighter in the lightmix pass.  I'm just waiting for the render to finish and will upload comparision shots when it's done, but just wondered if anyone had experienced the same thing.

But if my settings are as shown in the screenshot and those are the only 3 lights in the scene then it should look identical to the beauty right?

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Toon Outlines

« on: 2024-05-02, 12:07:08 »

+1 For this.

If corona wire had a way to just do profiles and not all edges it would be absolutely ideal for rendering elevations. Im certain ive seen tons and tons of this same request for the past ten years. If you did it, it would likely make a ton of people very happy!

It's easily the most requested feature here on the forums, loads of different threads requesting it.  Just to clarify to the devs, we're not looking for a full 'toon' setup, we just want a wire shader that handles edges in the same way VRay Toon does and as JP says, one that doesn't highlight every single edge in the underlying geo.

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Juraj's Renderings thread

« on: 2024-05-01, 12:15:39 »

I will leave Juraj to comment on his workflow :) I have tested something similar this last week though, using ComfyUI, and I can say that trying to do "face improvement" at 512x512 does not work, it just uglifies things :) For me I had to take a crop of my test image which ended up being 374 x 669, upscale it through a 4x upscaler to 1496x2672, then pass that through the Realistic model with 0.49 denoising, and then it improved clothes and faces. Trying to do that on the original crop with no upscaling just made things worse - so in the way I had things set up, a) you are not limited to 512 at all and b) 512 makes things worse.

This may be dependent on GPU memory though.

For interest, this was on a 4080 laptop GPU with 12GB memory, with similar performance seen on a 3070 Ti desktop. It was about 60 seconds to process the crop (that is to upscale it with a face sensitive upscaler, and then feed it through the model, combined in that time)

Also Tom (sorry to hijack the thread a bit here feel free to move into a new thread), i'm assuming here that your crop was of the whole person, so in effect the face was much much smaller than 374 x 669 crop.  The upscale then allowed the 'face' to fill the 512 marquee better in the resulting 1496x2672 image giving more starting fidelity for SD to work with?

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Juraj's Renderings thread

« on: 2024-05-01, 10:38:27 »

upscale it through a 4x upscaler to 1496x2672

Hey Tom, are you referring to an  external upscaler like Topaz here or an AI upscaler inside Stable Diffusion, just wrapping my head around all this stuff

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Stone roof

« on: 2024-04-30, 16:00:08 »

ok, it could work, but I noticed that on the edges of the roof it would leave a void in the pattern...also I can't rotate, move, scale or overlap the tiles. 
Instead another system to have more control and be able to place more types of stones (being very random even if similar) and above all to be able to cut without leaving holes on the edges?

Have you looked at Railclone?

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Gamma Correction Tone Mapping Operator Removed - Bring it back!

« on: 2024-04-24, 23:15:49 »

if "avoiding user mistakes" is THE strategy - was anything done about Tone Curve after this thread:
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=40616.0

an updated tooltip or something?

No

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Off-Topic / Re: Any experience with EnvisionVR

« on: 2024-04-20, 19:16:27 »

What I struggled with is how you present it back to the client?  Once they've done their bit, what is the delivery format to the client?  A link? A custom app? Or does my client need to download the EnvisionVR branded app Etc etc

I.e. what are they doing that I couldn't do myself?

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Off-Topic / Re: Any experience with EnvisionVR

« on: 2024-04-19, 00:00:09 »

No first hand experience other than a call with one of their sales team as you've had.

I struggled to understand their offering, their pricing, and how I'd price that back to clients.

It just want clear to me what they were offering and how I integrate it into my offering.