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Should I use Corona Bitmap for all my material maps?

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johnnyswedish:
Hi Forum!

I have a question. Until now every time I have created textures I have always just gone to the texture and loaded in my bitmap standard way (I do use PSDs). Last night I was reading about Corona Bitmap which I realize gives you much more control. Should I use this for all my texture imports in the future? Does it render faster as well? My gut feeling is I should. Love to hear your feedback on this :-) John

rojharris:
I too would be interested to know this. I've been using Corona for years and have never once used the Corona Bitmap... Hmmmm. curious.

rojharris:
So I've just discovered one reason not to use it. If I drop in a photoshop file I can't choose which layer set to use like I can with a normal C4D bitmap. I like to create my maps with all the diffuse/gloss/bump/alpha etc in the one layered file (it's just quicker). Seems like I can't do this with the Corona bitmap.

davetwo:

--- Quote from: rojharris on 2021-12-10, 09:35:43 ---So I've just discovered one reason not to use it. If I drop in a photoshop file I can't choose which layer set to use like I can with a normal C4D bitmap. I like to create my maps with all the diffuse/gloss/bump/alpha etc in the one layered file (it's just quicker). Seems like I can't do this with the Corona bitmap.

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This is my workflow too. PSD support is super useful!

I dont think there is any advantage to using the Corona bitmap unless youre using some fancy pipeline or UDIMS etc

johnnyswedish:
Hi,

I thought I'd get slaid for using PSDs, LOL! Good to hear I'm not the only one. I do find the Corona Bitmap easier to control surface imperfections for example. Being able to scale them easy etc is brill! Does anyone know if it does speed up rendering? Thanks for your input on this guys :-)

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