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[C4D] General Discussion / C4D Materials Question
« on: 2018-04-24, 18:32:14 »
This is only for converting a scene to Corona, but what is the rule of thumb for existing C4D materials that can be left alone and render fine with Corona vs. materials that should always be re-created using the Corona materials? For example, I'm sure it will be better to always use Corona materials for metal, glass, water, volumes, etc.

Just curious to know so I don't spend time re-creating materials that won't look any better using the Corona material system. Thanks.

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[C4D] Resolved Bugs / Copy and Paste Layered Materials
« on: 2018-04-20, 23:55:47 »
Full-speed non-debug version
Build timestamp: Feb  5 2018 10:05:29
Version: B1  (core 1.7)
Cinema version: CINEMA 4D Studio R19.053 S
Plugin status: initialized successfully

Mac OS Sierra 12.12.4

If you have a Layered material in a scene and want to copy and paste it, or the objects and materials, only the Layered material itself is copied, but not the supporting materials that comprise the layers. This happens every time. Not a major bug, but very annoying if you have many materials. Right now, I have to go back and copy the missing materials and paste again into the new scene, then re-stack the layers.




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[C4D] General Discussion / Camera Mapping in Beta1
« on: 2018-04-11, 22:59:07 »
So I see a Camera Projection option in the Corona Camera tag. Is there a quick video on how to use this technique? I can't seem to find one. How different is it that C4D's Camera Mapping function? Do the Corona tag allow for simple camera moves so you get a little more 3D effect?

I have a still image that I build simple geometry inorder to get some spheres bouncing into the photo's objects to make it appear 3D.

Thanks for any help.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Create Environment Map
« on: 2018-04-04, 19:36:57 »
So I'm doing a test where I shot two panoramas with my iPhone. This covers the full 360, just have to fill in some sky and ground. I know it's not a true HDR image, but will do fine for this test. What is the best format (round probe, equarectangluar, etc.) that works best with a sky object? Thanks.

--Alex

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[C4D] General Discussion / Motion Blur
« on: 2018-03-22, 22:55:50 »
I was going to render with motion blur, but I'm having some trouble. I adjusted the Corona Camera tag's shutter speed slower and got a very nice blur. I did have a crash a little while later and ever since then, I can't get the blur to render. It's turned on in the render settings and the camera tag is set, but when I render to picture viewer or the Corona VFB.

Am I missing something?

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So I know that in previous builds, TeamRender would render maybe at 1/3 the speed of normal IF it finished at all unless you sent multiple frames.
In rc 4, however, it seems that no matter how many frames are sent to TeamRender, I am getting the super slow rendering. I have not tried TeamRender on C4D r19 yet. Too bad, this really puts Corona


Full-speed non-debug version
Build timestamp: Jan 29 2018 19:50:09
Version: B1 rc 4 (core 1.7 (hotfix 2))
Cinema version: CINEMA 4D Studio R17.055 S
Plugin status: initialized successfully

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I know, that's an old OS to be running Team Render on, but we have several old servers sitting around doing nothing so we got one up and running. C4D r17 Team Renders just fine on this old box. Not the world's fastest rendering, but it helps. When I tried rendering a scene using the Corona engine, I got the following error: #11004. I think there is a Service Pack 2 for this OS. Not sure if that would help. Figured I'd pass this along in case there are others that might want to use older boxes for a render farm. Let me know if you have any questions.

Full-speed non-debug version
Build timestamp: Jan 23 2018 16:52:55
Version: B1 rc 3 (core 1.7 (hotfix 2))
Cinema version: CINEMA 4D Studio R17.055 S
Plugin status: initialized successfully






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[C4D] General Discussion / Picture Viewer and Corona VFB
« on: 2018-01-31, 17:39:16 »
Just curious to know this... when rendering it seems that Corona is rendering in the VFB AND the Picture Viewer. Is this slowing down the render times? I've closed the VFB window, but I'm sure it's still rendering in the background. Corona renders very fast, but any speedup I can do would be awesome.

Thanks.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Corona Multi-Pass
« on: 2018-01-31, 17:37:08 »
I'm running Beta 1 rc3 on Mac.

Since there have been several new builds since the last threads I found about Multi-Pass and Object Buffers, I figured I'd start a fresh one here. I have an animation already rendered, then my boss wanted to change the background color. I didn't render in separate passes, so all I need to do is assign an Object Buffer to the Background object so everything in front of it is masked. This is ease with the native engines, but all I get is a solid black mask out of Corona.

I found the Buffer settings in the Corona Compositing tag and set it to 1. The new issues, where do I enable the Multi-Pass in the render settings? I can't find it. Please help. This is the last piece for my project. Thanks.

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Work in Progress/Tests / New Project with Corona C4D
« on: 2018-01-27, 01:39:57 »
I'm trying to use Corona for a real job and it looks great so far. Just thought I'd post my progress. It's an animation, so I will also post the video when I'm done. This frame rendered with only 8 passes and Denoiser on Full in only 2.5 minutes. Nice!

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I wanted to try the new shadow catcher material, but all I get is a black plane. Maybe I'm fortetting a button somewhere. The only example I saw showed the exact same setup I'm using. Is it a video card issue perhaps? I'm a Mac and we all know the limitations there.

Thanks.

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[C4D] Resolved Bugs / B1 r2 and TeamRender Problem
« on: 2018-01-11, 18:57:46 »
Tried to use the Report Bug button, but it won't take my login so I posed that code at the bottom. Anyway, I was trying out B1 r2 and it mostly works. For me, TeamRender is not quite there. Corona normally renders the whole screen blocky, then refines until it reaches the number of passes you set. When using TeamRender, even with only one node, it will render from the bottom of the screen and VERY slow to render. I was using the free "Dinning Scene Final" file which, at the moment, cannot find the link where I downloaded it.

My slower Mac Pro can render that scene in 12 min. at 10 passes and denoise. I let the TeamRender render overnight with my fast renderbox, and it did fill the screen, but the quality was very poor (like the attachment) after 16 hours. Not sure what's going on with that.

I also tried this in r18, but the render node on my server crashes, but does not give my a report. I will double-check that, but that box is updating Windows at the moment.



Full-speed non-debug version
Build timestamp: Jan  8 2018 17:04:04
Version: B1 rc 2 (core 1.7 (hotfix 2))
Cinema version: CINEMA 4D Studio R17.055 S
Plugin status: initialized successfully

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[C4D] General Discussion / Background Image Plate
« on: 2017-08-14, 19:58:26 »
So I'm trying to get better at rendering cars so I can composite into image plate. The only thing I can't figure out is how to have the background image display in the viewport/render? Right now I have a Background object with a Corona Compositing Tag set to Seen By Camera, but nothing renders in the background. What am I missing?

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So what is the latest schedule for Corona for C4D (Mac and PC)? I see references to Beta in one place, but mostly Alpha versions. It seems to be far away from final product or is it just me? Any word on some type of manual? Even a quick start to get familiar with things instead of watching Max videos and having to recreate in C4D. I'm very excited to use Corona in real projects, but I feel I just get stuck with no real resources to turn to.

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[C4D] General Discussion / What About Plug-Ins?
« on: 2017-03-31, 16:40:43 »
Since we're all testing this software and reporting when we have problems, I have seen no mention of what plug-ins people have installed at the time of the crashes. Could this also be causing any conflicts with Corona?

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