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[Max] Bug Reporting / Huge bug - double rendertimes with black backdrop

« on: 2024-02-03, 20:02:24 »

Hi,

in Corona we miss a very important feature, which is Unpremultiplied Alpha.
Without it, any compositing operation will have issues.

So we have to use an "old" workaround, which is rendering with black visible backdrop. Anyway, as soon as you try to do it, you will get double rendertimes.
So we have a missing feature and a bug in the unique workaround possible.

Hopefully this will get a fix, it's like that since Corona 8 or so.

Best
Paolo

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona render 3 for Max denoise

« on: 2019-02-28, 15:25:34 »

thank you guys, the answer was exactlky under my nose. I turned off and now it's much faster.

Thanks again

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[Max] I need help! / Corona render 3 for Max denoise

« on: 2019-02-27, 16:41:39 »

Hi guys,

I have recently installed corona 3 for Max and I found it a bit heavier than the previous version during the interactive render, I have noticed after the first few passes there is an automatic denoise that blur everything and it's quite annoing, is ther eany way to disable it and see just the pixels pass by pass as the previous versions?

Thanks in advance

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Chaos Corona for Blender / Realtime preview in Blender ?

« on: 2017-11-05, 20:15:01 »

Hi all,
i see there was a discussion about this time ago, but i'd like to know if/when it will be eventually possible to see realtime preview in Blender.

thanks in advance
Paolo

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Which 3D soft to integrate into next?

« on: 2014-09-28, 13:42:15 »

Regarding some LW users saying "they dont need Vray" - this is true, some said it and keep saying it.
But remember LW userbase is pretty strongly split between hobbyists and pros.
Despite it's age-ness, LW has still some very strong points in archviz arena, so there's a not so small number of archviz users using it.
The large part of hobbyists (which are the ones who post the most on NT forums) are pretty much conservative regarding anything, in fact there are other flames going on for years regarding several other aspects of the software (it's ok as it is now VS we need deep changes).
Consider also that hobbyist userbase part went to LW because of price reasons and some of them are pretty much against everything has a high price, because they wouldnt get paid back from the investment. Vray is quite costly as renderign solution (probably the most costly between all solutions), and this is another reasons lower-profile LW users were against it. BTW, any pro knows that Vray will pay for itself in a very short period so pricetag doesnt matter really.

So, please dont take NT forum as a reliable source of infos about what users need/want, its a vert small part of the userbase and at same time the most talkative.
Being in LW arena since 5.0, i know most pros - if not all pros - are interested in having more rendering options and Corona is the kind of engine LW misses the most.
Again, as i read here, Corona will be friendly priced, which will make it quite interesting not only for pros.

Best,
Paolo

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Which 3D soft to integrate into next?

« on: 2014-09-26, 00:01:01 »

Hello,
i have Kray and Maxwell, yet i would buy corona.
Corona is very targeted to archviz, as said most engines for Lw are aimed to animation more than architecture.
Octane is good but being GPU is on another league, many want to stay CPU for a lot of reasons. Kray is in a slow development phase and even if it's a good engine, it's a niche tool.
Maxwell is useable in production only if you have big farms (we have 200 ghz farm but it's not enough for our production times), so we nearly dismissed it.

In LW arena we need standards and Corona seems to be able to become a new Vray, given it's absolutely top-notch kernels (better than Vray ones and the state of art in GI solutions).
I know LW arena very in depth, being a long date user and leading a viz firm for 20 years, i know corona would fill a gap here. Finding people with a know-how will be easier, instead of having to teach them LW rendering, and that's a majr point. There's a huge discussion about the need for standards in LW userbase.
Also, as said Lw lacks *the* standard - Vray - which makes Corona so interesting for most, if not all, professional LW users around.

Best,
Paolo

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Which 3D soft to integrate into next?

« on: 2014-09-25, 21:03:39 »

ps - another factor pro LW, is the fact that there's a large demand for a dedicated Viz engine in Lw community since since Vray didnt come to Lw (it came to Modo recently).
Corona would fill the gap easily.
Despite the fact LW viz userbase in not huge (but larger than some think), i think Corona has few contenders there and would sell surprisingly well.

Thanks,
Paolo

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Which 3D soft to integrate into next?

« on: 2014-09-23, 13:20:19 »

Hello,
as Lw user i'm very interested in corona, and most other users are. Lw has a nice engine and few options (Maxwell, octane, Kray, etc) but Conona would be an unicum given its kernels, and would fill a gap in archviz usability. I hope you will seriously consider it.

Thanks,
Paolo Zambrini

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