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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Lightmix controller bindings

« on: 2016-10-18, 21:11:52 »

Im certain youve recieved requests for a standalone lightmix as it makes for a fantastic presentation tool. However it would be incredible to be able to bind the lighmix groups to a midi controller so we can use a fader to adjust the light levels on each channel. It would require setting a maximum value that the midi control scales to as faders are limited to 128 steps but this would make a brilliant way of being able to present to clients. Max already handles midi commands. So if there is a standalone lightmix coming in the future. id love it to be controllable via a MIDI hardware interface :)

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General CG Discussion / [HELP] Custom attributes in 3DS Max

« on: 2016-10-14, 09:50:44 »

Hi, Im working on a project at work where we need to build a kit of parts for some furnishings. These furnishings will be replacing revit blocks and will contain bim data in the User defined properties of each model.
If one of these properties is set to false i need to remove an element of the furniture. Say a support strut or a shelf.
Ive tried this before using modifiers and an attribute holder and using the wire parameters but i couldnt quite figure it out.
Has anyone got any ideas how i could do this?

Thanks
Jack

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[Max] I need help! / Can i use metalness maps?

« on: 2016-10-11, 14:19:21 »

Plugging in a substance metalness into the reflection IOR makes my material look very strange. almost opalescent. Is metalness supported yet?
Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / Corona EXR wont open in photoshop?

« on: 2016-10-11, 13:37:44 »

Hi, I want to save out my lightmixer passes in 32bit so i can do some linear comp in photoshop but i cant open the file. Has anyone got any ideas how i can do this? Do i still need to mess around in after effects to be able to do this?

Thanks
Jack

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[Max] General Discussion / Im after some realistic archviz materials. Any recommendations?

« on: 2016-09-07, 22:44:52 »

At work my department has recently been given the pretty press release renders (usually we mainly do realtime) and im looking for some archviz materials that i can use daily for photorealistic renders. Can anyone point me in the right direction of some decent packs?
Thanks
Jack

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[Max] I need help! / Why is the interactive result different from a render?

« on: 2016-04-04, 12:51:19 »

Ive been doing some work with a new building development and looking at how the sun casts through various areas throughout the day. The interactive rendering is great, i get nice shadows from the daylight system into the interior. however when i render its very diffused and i dont get those crisp edges anymore.
Any ideas?

Thanks
Jack

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General CG Discussion / Substance Designer

« on: 2016-02-23, 10:19:22 »

Im not sure if its just me, But substance designer looks awesome in theory but it really isnt artist friendly and its really really slow on my machine even with dual cpus and SLI GPUs.
Has anyone tried it?

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[Max] I need help! / Volumetric question

« on: 2016-02-10, 10:52:13 »

Has there been any development in the dailies re: the problem that the camera needs to be outside the volumetric lighting volume to be able to render the rays?

Thanks
Jack

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[Max] General Discussion / Has anyone tried rendering any complex animation with corona yet?

« on: 2016-02-08, 12:31:11 »

Im looking at re-rendering some university work with Corona and im wondering if anyone has successfully done any cinematic animation with it yet?
Should i wait for the adaptivity to come in a few versions? Are there any settings i should change? (im thinking locked noise pattern might be a start).
Id appreciate some guidance on whether it is worth waiting for the adaptive stuff to be implemented.

Thanks
Jack

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[Max] I need help! / [solved]Resume from File loads file then instantly halts render

« on: 2016-01-20, 14:46:11 »

Im not sure if its still an unstable feature but my 'resume from file' doesnt actually resume the render. It dumped out a 300MB exr using the save VFB button and then tried to resume the render after about an hour. When i choose the file to resume from it loads into the buffer and then the render dialog says 'saving + closing' and then the render stops.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Jack

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[Max] General Discussion / Large areas and corona lighting VERY slow

« on: 2016-01-20, 09:36:43 »

Hi, im not sure if this is a bug or if its just simply the size of my scene but ive noticed that even if you use a small number of lights (less than 25) in a vast area (about 100,000sqft) corona is just ridiculously slow during precalc and during rendering and can take anything up to 10 minutes to begin rendering and about the same to successfully cancel the render and resume editability ijn max.
Any ideas how i can rectify this?

Thanks
Jack

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / VFB wont show

« on: 2016-01-19, 22:56:42 »

Corona 1.3, Max 2014. I had the vfb up. I cancelled a render and closed it and now it doesnt show when i click the show vfb button or even during rendertime.

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General CG Discussion / how can i pinpoint and alleviate bottlenecks?

« on: 2016-01-19, 18:36:08 »

Hi, i work in a small design team and we all work off a server with lots of ssd power. Im wondering if there is a network speed issue when rendering. Does corona and indeed max, have to grab the texture files from the server each time? or does max cache them to the hard disk when it opens the file?
It just seems that despite my machine being ridiculously beefy (2 x xeons with 2 quadro k4000's and 32gb 3000mhz ram) they run quite slow especially in the precalc phases of rendering.
Thanks
Jack

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Corona slice

« on: 2015-11-24, 16:55:01 »

It would be very useful for architectural renders to have a Corona slice tool like vray's where it caps off the slice with the colour it slices and only slices at rendertime.
Anyone with me?

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[Max] I need help! / [solved by re-installing]More DR problems

« on: 2015-11-03, 12:53:45 »

I have 4 render blades. all with latest dr server all with activation txt file in correct location as per the freshdesks article. They are replying to pings and showing up in the dr tab on the local machine but when they try and run max dr it never loads and the log says 'recieved no response from 3ds max' . Something i noticed is that before i added the txt file the nodes werent taking a license from the licensing server either. Could there be a problem there? But as i say at the moment they don't seem to be able to launch max and begin rendering.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Jack