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Gallery / Re: 1st test with corona

« on: 2013-11-19, 17:01:32 »

thanks Keymaster and Rawalanche, will try daily build as soon as I build up the courage.

Just a quick question re: HD Cache, are there settings there I could be tweaking or should I leave them as default?

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Gallery / Re: 1st test with corona

« on: 2013-11-19, 13:52:36 »

p.s. thanks for the warm welcome!

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Gallery / Re: 1st test with corona

« on: 2013-11-19, 13:52:13 »

I did a whole load of tests, but nothing really conclusive.

- I think the main problem may be the IES lights, has there been progress in this area in the daily builds?
- changing light samples multiplier from 2 to 5 made the most noticeable improvement for the same rendertime.
- adding a portal made no noticeable difference.
- in the original set I had the MSI at 400. Changing to 100 was an OK trade-off. Dropping to 20 made the image noticeably darker.

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Gallery / Re: 1st test with corona

« on: 2013-11-18, 17:31:35 »

Yeah probably every material has glossiness, and GI wise i dont think its the easiest scene to light.

Let me check if I had any directionality on the IES lights.. and what my white walls were set to.

re: portals, I thought I read somewhere that they werent always an advantage... ? I am using a HDRi sky.

happy to try one render with and one without to see if it speeds it up.

In this particular case, portals will probably make difference as the skylight opening is not that big. They are very simple to use, just put a large quad over there to cap the opening and apply portalMTL on it :)

does the normal of the quad matter? ie. facing in or out?

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Gallery / Re: 1st test with corona

« on: 2013-11-18, 17:13:09 »

Yeah probably every material has glossiness, and GI wise i dont think its the easiest scene to light.

Let me check if I had any directionality on the IES lights.. and what my white walls were set to.

re: portals, I thought I read somewhere that they werent always an advantage... ? I am using a HDRi sky.

happy to try one render with and one without to see if it speeds it up.

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Gallery / Re: 1st test with corona

« on: 2013-11-18, 16:25:37 »

I'm quite sure it can be faster, indeed I hope it can! I used PT + HD.

I've only had 1 day playing about with corona so far, so most settings still a bit of a mystery which is partly why I've asked Juraj to do a tips & tricks type post on my blog so that I and others can get up to speed.

will check out the alpha builds section, thanks!

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Gallery / 1st test with corona

« on: 2013-11-18, 15:47:07 »

Hi everyone,

This is an old project of mine, and seeing as it is very simple I thought it would be a nice easy start for trying out corona. Each one got to about 200 samples i think or passes, or whatever its called ;) and took about 2 hrs.

Original set done with vray here: http://www.peterguthrie.net/archive/#/plainspace/

So... how do I get access to nightlies then!

Peter

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News / Re: CoronaCameraMod + photographic exposure + photometric emission units

« on: 2013-11-17, 18:58:13 »

I know it can be added in post, but I'd really like to see vignetting added.

Also, I use some degree of horizontal and/or vertical shift on almost every shot, so adding shift would be great (I know you can use the skew modifier but I'd prefer it in the coronacamera

re: exposure, I quite like right now that the DOF is not linked to exposure.. in vray its a PITA when you want to re:expose but keep the f stop the same (or if you want the exposure the same but alter DOF effect)

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Re: CoronaHDRI

« on: 2013-11-17, 12:55:54 »

One thing I would love to see in a coronaHDRi map would be color temp control in kelvin, so that I can further balance light temperatures. Ideally, color temp plus tint, like in Lightroom.

Thanks!

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News / Re: New contrast function

« on: 2013-11-15, 17:16:19 »

Anyway, the contrast tool is ok, but what would eventually be really cool, would be full curve editor. Most of the time I like boosting midtones, not highlights or shadows.

Strongly agree with Juraj, curves would be a must for me.

PS. Hello everyone, first post here :) Just downloaded Corona yesterday and really enjoying playing with it so far!