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News / Re: Corona@EUE

« on: 2014-06-03, 15:53:21 »

Corona merchandise is not a bad idea. :)

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: PBR kinda materials

« on: 2014-06-03, 15:50:40 »

In my opinion all these physically-accurate restrictions should be respected by skilled artists but they should also be allowed to break them.

Well, skilled artists use canvas & brushes and are free to do whatever expressionism they want ;)
My opinion is that the renderer should help artist to achieve phys.correctness, without knowing all the rocket-science connections laying under the numerous variables.

Treat it like dynamic physics simulation instead of manual keyframing. And, btw, they don't exclude each other - manual tweaking is still allowed if artist needs.

Well, skilled artists use canvas & brushes and are free to do whatever expressionism they want ;)

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: PBR kinda materials

« on: 2014-06-03, 09:46:44 »

In my opinion all these physically-accurate restrictions should be respected by skilled artists but they should also be allowed to break them.

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News / Re: Corona@EUE

« on: 2014-06-02, 13:40:18 »

This sucks but I can understand it. :)

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Gallery / Re: Bathroom No.2.

« on: 2014-06-02, 13:18:14 »

Are you doing this on laptop? Everything looks yellow like hell and shadows are green! Or maybe you are swapping between different colour profiles? This definitely looks wrong.

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Gallery / Re: Vertiz 950: HGR Arquitectos, Mexico!

« on: 2014-06-02, 11:56:07 »

Do these textures come with any license? :]

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General CG Discussion / Re: Fire

« on: 2014-06-02, 11:54:00 »

I would try with particle systems (blob mesh) + falloff map but there are probably some better ways or ready made scripts for that.

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Gallery / Re: Vertiz 950: HGR Arquitectos, Mexico!

« on: 2014-06-01, 22:29:37 »

Mind blown... First time with Corona and such extremely eye-pleasing result!

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Progressive Amounts not Sticking/Being Respected

« on: 2014-06-01, 10:51:32 »

AHA! (I can't see my curve editor now after switching my monitors around...stupid Max)

Next time: Alt+Space, Down Arrow, Enter, any arrow key/mouse :)

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: All Color mapping/postproduction feature requests

« on: 2014-05-31, 22:59:23 »

Yeah, ok, I just want everyone to have the same symbol that is used everywhere else in Max in that place. :)

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Expected pass time

« on: 2014-05-31, 15:30:30 »

Would it be possible to display expected (approximated?) time needed to finish a single pass or total number of passes? I think this would be handy for example if you are rendering 16 passes and wanted to know how long it will take without waiting for the whole pass to finish.

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Playing with Post

« on: 2014-05-31, 13:03:57 »

Well, I'd like to achieve the looks like photo, but In the last week I'd learnt a lot of things about the CC and filmic look

I don't think this is an example of filmic colour correction. :)

Basicly I don't have to much knowledge about the lens, this is one more thing what I have to more learn.
If you know something good essay about the lenses, please share with me. Or just an "simple" photography book should be enough ?

Well, I think that if you want something to look photographic, then you should have at least some very basic knowledge on photography. Best way to learn is buying a cheap used DSLR and playing with the settings. You also have all these in Corona (ISO, aperture, speed, angle, focal distance, sensor size, etc) so you can try setting up a camera, giving it a wide angle and rendering with DOF, changing angle to narrow, and rendering, etc... For me experimenting is the best way to learn anything.

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Playing with Post

« on: 2014-05-31, 11:01:16 »

First of all, you should specify what effect you wanted to achieve. If you wanted your render to look like a photo, then, in my opinion, you have failed. Here is why:
-if it was a photo, it would be taked with an extremely wide-angle lens and such lenses do not produce such explicit depth of field effect - I would disable DOF (it looks like done in post, anyway)
-from the view behind windows, it looks like the weather is cloudy/stormy, yet there are sharp strong spots of light entering through your windows - this makes the whole image look at least uncanny
-there is some strange greenish tint in the shadows (maybe it's caused by gi)
-contrast is too high (let's say it's a matter of taste)
-image looks underexposed

I'll just add that in no case do I consider myself a professional, these are just my thoughts on how I would compare your image to an actual photo.

And here is my ultra-quick attempt at fixing brightness (curves only, it's still just my opinion :) ).

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Gallery / Re: Mill

« on: 2014-05-30, 16:02:57 »

Yup, some textures need displacement (they look flat) and in some places it looks like from a game engine but the overall impression is good!
Btw, what is that midget-sized entrance to hell?

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: All Color mapping/postproduction feature requests

« on: 2014-05-30, 14:42:35 »

Not sure if it's a good idea but I'll just paste my requests here:

-make it possible to switch between each parameter using the TAB key

-be able to spin the spinners beyond your monitor's resolution like in other max's spinners

-make it use commas instead of dots ( , instead of . )