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[Max] I need help! / Help to texture a building

« on: 2021-01-24, 15:04:09 »

Hello working on an arch project. Need to texture up a large building. It has 1000s of windows and I'd need to select them to give them a matt ID do I can have a different material than the walls. Is there any way to quickly select them rather than individually clicking every window. Clicking every window will take more time than I have
Cheers

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Hardware / Re: New Hardware help

« on: 2021-01-11, 09:45:25 »

Thanks for the info. I ended up going a bit over the budget but I got a ryzen 9 3900x 32gb ddr4 RAM and a nvidia quadro p4000 8gb video card with ray tracing cores.

This processor is lower spec than the one you recommended but this workstation was available now and because I have active jobs I needed something quick rather than wait for a custom machine to be built.

Hopfully I'll see a big increase in performance from my old machine which was an I5 4575 with 8gb of Ddr3 RAM and a nvidia quadro 2000 4gb Video card

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Hardware / New Hardware help

« on: 2021-01-09, 14:07:00 »

Hi guys I've been struggling along with an old I5 pc than can bearly run 3ds max and using mental ray. I'm looking to upgrade to something that can run max well and use corona render engine.

 I'd be looking to render single frames at 2k to 4k resolution and would need something that can render an image fairly quickly. I'm not looking at photorealistic rendering I'm producing rendering with low res textures but the image must look clean and professional.

My budget is £1800 or roughly $2400  what should I be looking for? Any suggestions
Ideally an off the shelf workstation that I can buy now would suit better than a custom build system.
Cheers

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Hardware / Re: Spec needed for animation

« on: 2020-06-26, 15:52:44 »

Would be unusual for there to be such a small difference - things like hard drive speeds, running out of memory, size of textures used, etc. might play a part; or inefficient set up of the scene (e.g. bad albedo).

Would be interesting to see some test renders, with the full range of stats (rays/s, time, passes, noise level etc.) to see what you mean, plus some further details on the entire hardware, along with which version of Corona, which host software and version, and so on. You could even send in a scene via private uploader. See https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000524006-how-to-report-issues-3ds-max (there's also an equivalent for C4D, https://help.c4d.corona-renderer.com/support/solutions/articles/12000033461-how-to-report-issues-c4d )

BTW, do you have Benchmark results from both machines, your machines that is, not other people's 5650 and i5 on the results page, but your actual machines?

I'll benchmark both machines today and post the results. The i5 only has 8gb of RAM could this bottleneck the xeon machine when using distributed rendering? If I send you 2 scenes I've made you can see what I'm trying to render and see if I've made a cock up in the scene somewhere (entirely possible) otherwise think I'll look into various real time rendering options since they'd achieve the level of realism I'm after.

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Hardware / Re: Spec needed for animation

« on: 2020-06-24, 23:17:57 »

I did use the benchmark for this purpose when I bought the 5650 I compared it to my i5. I5 ran 11 min and 5650 around 2 min however in real world rendering the performance is almost identical. In one scene the 5650 renders a frame in about 9 mins the i5 in 11 so very little real world difference. Both these times had noise that had to be dealt with post process.

I'm honestly not sure if I'm doing something very wrong in corona to have such poor render times. Even if I load up a new scene default settings, put a box, one hole for a window stick a HDRI in environment slot and render with no textures this will still take a long time to get an acceptable noise limit.

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Hardware / Re: Spec needed for animation

« on: 2020-06-24, 22:27:44 »

Hmm my 5650 takes hours to render anything in corona even a simple scene with no textures at 1024 res will take a couple of hours to get anywhere near an acceptable noise level. 2 min on benchmark means nothing

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[Max] I need help! / Re: setting up distributed rendering??? wits end

« on: 2020-06-22, 21:30:13 »

Thnks for the suggestions turns out in the end I didn't have license server running so I've got both up and running unfortunately they are both cr@p computers meaning corona remains unfeasible

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Hardware / Good workstation for animation

« on: 2020-06-22, 15:14:45 »

What's a good workstation for doing rendering and animation with corona? One that will have reasonable render times?

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Hardware / Spec needed for animation

« on: 2020-06-22, 13:30:27 »

What's a realistic spec needed for rendering 4k to 7k frame animations in 1080 res, nothing near photorealistic but reasonably nice textures and lighting. The render times would need to be a couple of days say 5 at most for all frames.

At the moment I'm using a xeon twin 5650 and a i5 with 24gb and 8gb respectively as a master and node. These two computers are so slow that it makes animation unfeasible for me I'd be looking at 10 to 15min per frame. (they make any type of rendering practical unfeasible with corona)

What is a realistic hardware for this task, I'm just wanting to see if it's within my price range or just a pipe dream.

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[Max] I need help! / Corona renders Black images after updating to v5

« on: 2020-06-22, 02:32:29 »

I've recently updated to version 5 only to find I can't render anything only black screen when through a camera and occasionally if I render through viewport I sometimes get off items rendered but the rest of the scene is black? Any ideas?

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[Max] I need help! / setting up distributed rendering??? wits end

« on: 2020-06-22, 00:30:14 »

Hello

I have 2 computers and want to use distributed rendering. I've installed max,corona,backburner and corona DR server on both machines I have connected the pcs together with an ethernet cable. Unfortunately they are not working and I've spent hours messing about, watching tutorials etc to no avail. Corona website makes it appear was to set up but this is not my experience so far. I've attached screenshots of the DR server as seen from both computers and the distributed render screen in render setup. Any ideas?  these computers are going in a skip if I can't get this to work so I'd appreciate any help or advice. both computers appear in the network tab in file explorer on both computers so they should be able to connect or is there some other steps I'm missing?

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Hardware / Re: Is this a good workstation spec for Corona rendering?

« on: 2019-10-11, 15:53:45 »

Thanks, I found a different machine that has a Ryzen processor instead I'm not too bothered about the graphics card as I'll probably use the new machine as a node. Would these specs suit Corona better?

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Twelve-Core Processor - 1x 8GB DDR4 2400Mhz - Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO Motherboard - Novatech Eclipse Mid Tower - & 750W PSU

I'm thinking of getting this and swapping the RAM for 2x 16Gb 3000Mhz for total 32Gb


Would this be a good machine for rendering at 1080 on Corona? I'd need to be able it render 2000-3500 frame animation in reasonable time frame my current machine takes over a week to do this.

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Hardware / Is this a good workstation spec for Corona rendering?

« on: 2019-10-11, 08:53:25 »

I'm looking to render animations and stills at 1080 Res. I currently have an intel i5 with 8gb that runs the benchmark at nearly 12 mins which is too slow. I'm wanting to buy a new machine and use my current one as a node below are the specs I'm looking at. Are these any good for rendering? Cheers any advice much appreciated


Windows 10 Pro 64
Intel® Core™ i7-9700 with Intel® UHD Graphics 630 (3.0 GHz base frequency, up to 4.7 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, 12 MB cache, 8 cores)
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2080 (8 GB GDDR5 dedicated)
32 GB memory; 512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ SSD storage

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Hardware / Re: what is your graphic card minimum requirement ?

« on: 2019-04-09, 13:41:29 »

I've been using a Nvidia k2200 works great

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Hardware / Re: Best option for budget rendering

« on: 2019-04-09, 13:40:30 »

https://www.europc.co.uk/dell-precision-5820-tower-workstation-intel-xeon-w-2123-16gb-ram-256gb-ssd-1gb-nvidia-nvs-310-dell-3-yr-wty-129027.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwhbHlBRAMEiwAoDA341OHwPrB4nAT3AlKxUIkPYXl1Pi_oA1NSJVu_OFsrDU8cAasc3TzqBoCFzIQAvD_BwE

Is this a good option?

I can't for the life of me figure out which Xeon is new and old the naming dosnt seem to make any sense to me.