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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Path Tracing always as Secondary GI Solver

« Last post by davemahi on Today at 17:54:34 »

I am a big fan of the PT + PT approach as well. It's 2025, I don't want to be caching GI for offline rendering any more haha. I do change a few settings like highlight clamping, but pretty much never change from PT.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Path Tracing always as Secondary GI Solver

« Last post by romullus on Today at 16:20:10 »

https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4528471000849-What-is-highlight-clamping-3ds-Max

I never liked highlight clamping, but maybe i need to give it another chance someday.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Path Tracing always as Secondary GI Solver

« Last post by romullus on Today at 16:18:50 »

WOOW the change is indeed huge, do you have the render times for those ?

About 3 minutes for each, it was set to pass limit as stopping condition. I didn't look at noise percentage, but MSI 0 was obviously much noisier before denoiser. One would need to make more in-depth tests before drawing any conclusions, but as Aram said, with the new fireflies filter you can now play with MSI. Just a reminder - you want to increase it to make its effect less destructive. Setting it to 0 is a special case, i.e. MSI is effectively turned off, which is not recommended.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Path Tracing always as Secondary GI Solver

« Last post by maru on Today at 16:12:54 »

https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4528471000849-What-is-highlight-clamping-3ds-Max

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Path Tracing always as Secondary GI Solver

« Last post by Aram Avetisyan on Today at 15:47:37 »

As it is said, Corona is (un)biased renderer, MSI being one of the main biasing factors. You can see crazy-beautiful things happening with caustics when there is no MSI and there are strong reflective surfaces (keep in mind long render times). I remember forgetting to set render limit for a volumetric caustics scene, and with >1000 passes rendered, beautiful caustics appeared, in places I would not think of them appearing.
I agree that with firefly removal MSI can be tweaked with more confidence. Yet again, be sure you know what you are doing when tweaking the defaults.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Path Tracing always as Secondary GI Solver

« Last post by arqrenderz on Today at 15:37:54 »

WOOW the change is indeed huge, do you have the render times for those ?

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Camera settings difficult to understand

« Last post by romullus on Today at 13:59:09 »

Not necessarily, you can use aperture for DOF and shutter speed for motion blur and at the same time still use simple exposure to control exposure. Corona is very flexible about that and doesn't force you into single workflow.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Camera settings difficult to understand

« Last post by frv on Today at 13:18:22 »

When using DOF I assume you need an aperture setting and photographic exposure.

Anyhow, Tone mapping requieres a lot of trial and error.  I would love to see the proper order for tone mapping settings for using LUT's

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Gallery / Re: Utamed University

« Last post by ZENITVISUALS on Today at 12:57:15 »

Hi Abdullah! Originally we make these images in 16:9 format, and with the final delivery we add vertical versions. That vertical versions were made with generative fill in photoshop adding sky and greenery and, maybe, in some cases the proportions of the top and bottom are a little punched. Thank you very much for your comment!!
Here you are one of them with horizontal format.

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Gallery / Re: Utamed University

« Last post by Abdullah_Alallah on Today at 12:40:08 »

Love the overall atmosphere, absolutely stunning work. but if i may add something : you might wanna try Stable diffusion on comfyui or A1111 since at the bottom of the first image is taking me out of the image a lil too much.