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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Subscription Update by CHAOS

« on: 2022-10-18, 12:16:50 »

For clarity on the Render Nodes, nothing has changed here - extra render nodes were dropped with the release of Corona 8, not with Corona 9, so it's been this way since April. That is, unless you were an existing user before Corona 8 in which case you got to keep whatever render nodes you used to have, and you still get to keep those with Corona 9 too so long as your Premium subscription remains renewed.

Ok, sorry for not noticing ;-)  I am a Corona user since Alpha but I had some payment issues in the last few months so I had to subscribe again and this could be the main reason for the absence of the nodes...  I don't render everyday
And I surely don't want to throw with mud about the pricing, cause I still think Corona renderer is the best I can get and you managed to make fast improvements with every version.
But in these days of crisis I already stopped my subscription of Adobe and switched to Resolve and Affinity...
I will give premium a spin first and consider going to solo.  One question though: how to get access to Chaos Scans?

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Subscription Update by CHAOS

« on: 2022-10-18, 11:07:31 »

Corona will be dropped within two years by Chaosgroup if you ask me. I've seen these things before with great tools being bought by bigger company's.
(Canoma, softimage.......)
The sheer fact that Corona isn't even mentioned on the landing page of chaos.com is a proof of that to me.

I will finish a commercial project that I am working on right now within the last discounted month of Corona Premium and will have to look for alternatives in the meantime.
I will abandon this sinking ship and my main reason is the drop of the rendernodes in the main license.
If Chaosgroup left the nodes in I could have had a choice for solo and would understand, and could also live with, the price increase.
But now my cute little renderfarm of three computers turn out to be useless....

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Subscription Update by CHAOS

« on: 2022-10-17, 22:03:32 »

I am now installing Corona 9.  Can we still use 3 renderslaves on one premium or solo Corona subscription or are these nodes removed now?

Best regards, Ceasare

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Subscription Update

« on: 2022-10-17, 11:52:52 »

I was allready paying €50 a month and also wondered what made the price increase from €20 to €50 after Chaos took Corona Renderer.
I think it is a shame that almost all software is now on subscription base.
Last month I cancelled my Adobe subscription and bought the Affinity packages and Davinci Resolve. This one time payment equals a 7 month subscription to Adobe. After these 7 months I can think about upgrading my hardware instead of continuously installing updates that gradually gets slower with each release.
Considered switching to another renderer but I am so hooked to Corona for its easy setup and I use it in almost any project so I just have to stick to it.

I do like the addition of Phoenix, Player and Scans but I did not really ask for this huge price increase
I will give it a spin for a few months and think will eventually be switching to Corona-solo if this still supports my tiny four computer renderfarm.

Ceasare

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Gallery / Re: Corona Apartment

« on: 2016-04-21, 16:29:54 »

Beautifull!!
The only thing (for me) that tells me this is not a photograph is the lack of space underneath te door.
But a marvelous mood it is.

;-)

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Cmasking_ID Rebusfarm

« on: 2016-02-04, 10:44:40 »

Hello Maru,

I've rendered this on Rebusfarm with approximately 120 machines.
They've done the setup, and therefore I do not know their configuration, but I guess, trust and also hope, their machines are all equal.
I would suggest talking to them (if you are in contact) about their setup. Perhaps one of them is reading this right at this moment...;-)

What I can tell, is that there are small sequences in the CMasking_ID channel that share the same colours, so I guess they were rendered on the same dedicated machine. And the problem has its origin at render distribution and render start across multiple machines. The random ID assignment should perhaps be fixed with an identical seed in the scene, but this could be difficult with moving objects that are not visible at the start of the animation.

My machine is 3dsmax 2015 with corona 1.3 and a few of the latest Sigershaders.
The scene has copyrighted material in it so I would rather not like to put it here on the forum, but I can send it to you if you send me your contact info.

best regards,
Ceasare

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Cmasking_ID Rebusfarm

« on: 2016-01-29, 11:45:51 »

I'm Using Corona version 1.3/3dsmax 2015.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Cmasking_ID Rebusfarm

« on: 2016-01-29, 10:45:29 »

I would like to know witch setting I should use on Rebusfarm for CMasking_ID to properly isolate certain objects and groups rendered on Rebusfarm.
Allready animated and rendered a few animations on Rebusfarm with the selected "Source Node ID"option but this channel is now flickering colours.
I guess the cause is the use of multiple mashines? 

Can I  render with constant colours?
Or in other words: "is it possible to fix the ID assignment accross multiple mashines at render start?"

Best regards,
Ceasare Schuit

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Gallery / Re: Porsche Spyder 918

« on: 2015-11-10, 12:57:19 »

Very nice!
Like the futuristic style.

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Cd-cover for a Dutch punk band

« on: 2015-05-21, 11:10:35 »

Thanks for moving my post.... I did not notice that there is a subgroup 'work in progress'
Excuse me for posting in the main gallery.

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Cd-cover for a Dutch punk band

« on: 2015-05-21, 10:51:06 »

Thanks for the comment ;-)
It also has to be reviewed by all the members of the band. After all off their remarks have been corrected, I will surely render it longer.
I also want to add some more spiderwebs (Cobweb-plugin) and perhaps some grey books.

Before it will be printed lots of correction need to be done.. this is just a first 'moodimpression'.

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Work in Progress/Tests / Cd-cover for a Dutch punk band

« on: 2015-05-20, 23:58:19 »

This is a collection of objects modelled of my own and from Espona.  The girl is straight out of DAZ-studio and her night dress is simulated cloth in Max.
rendertime about an hour.
Little post done in Photoshop; Raw filter.
please share your crits ;-)

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Gallery / Virtual Set

« on: 2015-05-03, 11:00:29 »

This is one angle of a virtual set I created for Dutch television.
The result is a layered PSD that can be imported in a Tricaster and the videoinputs come at the right position with (faked) reflections.

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[Max] Corona Goodies - User Contributions / Re: 150 Free HDRs from NoEmotion

« on: 2015-04-03, 11:24:07 »

Thanks for sharing!  I've recently considered my own aquisition of HDR's. Still looking into it...