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2017-09-07, 12:32:23
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Alexandre Besson

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Hi,
I'm having an issue with the new CoronaCamera (3ds max 2014 sp5). It looks like 3ds max is considering the camera object AS an object in the viewport, so i can't see through whereas the render is going well.
Moreover, i can't see the link beetween the camera and the target wich is diturbing & can't see the cone.
Regards.

2017-09-07, 12:37:03
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And, what about the new two SSS parameters inside CoronaMtl. Are they really necessary? Now we have 7 different parameters, inside CoronaMtl to control SSS:
Translucency, Refraction, Opacity, Adsorption and Scattering... Now SSS fracion and SSS Radius.
For a newbies is too much, IMO. Corona philosophy is to be simple ;-)

2017-09-07, 12:39:46
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Cool start!
Above mentioned things:
the icon - simplier = better. Example - VRayCam. And It's selectable all ower it's icon.
And it would be nice to have individual resolution for each.
And Exclude option - other words the "Renderable" checkbox on/off for objects that often blocks the view when Batch render is used.

Thank you! :)

2017-09-07, 12:48:13
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And, what about the new two SSS parameters inside CoronaMtl. Are they really necessary? Now we have 7 different parameters, inside CoronaMtl to control SSS:
Translucency, Refraction, Opacity, Adsorption and Scattering... Now SSS fracion and SSS Radius.
For a newbies is too much, IMO. Corona philosophy is to be simple ;-)
Soon there will be presets for materials, so new users will easily and quickly pick whatever they need.

2017-09-07, 13:00:32
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Cool start!
Above mentioned things:
the icon - simplier = better. Example - VRayCam. And It's selectable all ower it's icon.
And it would be nice to have individual resolution for each.
And Exclude option - other words the "Renderable" checkbox on/off for objects that often blocks the view when Batch render is used.

Thank you! :)

+1 The camera hitbox is smaller than the icon, making it hardly selectable.

PS. I like the Random Color thing
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2017-09-07, 13:10:39
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I got the new daily build 06/09 and I´m trying Corona Camera now and my question is: Any plans for these settings to work realtime (without restart render) like the VFB settings does?


yes, definitely!
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2017-09-07, 13:13:02
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devs, is there a plan to remove coronaCameraMod?
if not, I found there are some properties name (mxs) of coronaCamera which doesn't match with what coronaCameraMod has.
imo, to avoid confusion I think both feature's should have identic properties name.
yes, we will remove camera mod. It will be hidden plugin for backwards compatibility for few years, with no further updates.

We will see if there is some unnecessary inconsistency between camera and mod, and fix that
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2017-09-07, 14:20:02
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Corona Camera seems very promising but I have noticed a few issues, some of which are already mentioned above.

One major issue I have noticed when using the Corona Camera is that IR stops completely when my mouse is not on/in the vfb window. If I am hovering over a viewport then IR does not work (it's as though I have chosen to cancel/stop interactive rendering). IR then jumps back into life (restarts) when I hover over the VFB again. Deleted the Corona Camera and this issue goes away (IR behaves normally again).

Max 2016 SP4

Edit - This only happens when looking through the Corona Camera, switching to Physical Cam or perspective view returns IR to it's normal behaviour
« Last Edit: 2017-09-07, 14:25:32 by fraine7 »

2017-09-07, 15:24:30
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There is already an (internal) discussion about SSS controls in the Corona mtl vs the Skin mtl, and there will be definitely some changes to make things more simple. Any suggestions are however appreciated!
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2017-09-07, 16:26:28
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Can you please not remove camera mod? For example, when importing cameras from Houdini / Maya, since it's an alembic camera, it is easier just to put a modifier on top of it, instead of having to somehow convert it to the new corona camera. If new changes to the camera are made, we don't have to re-convert it again. Unless you can implement an easy way to convert alembic/standard/vray cameras to corona camera. That's one of the things i don't like about vray camera / 3dsmax phys cam. Just putting a modifier on top of whatever camera and make it compatible works perfectly.

2017-09-07, 23:18:15
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Can you please not remove camera mod? For example, when importing cameras from Houdini / Maya, since it's an alembic camera, it is easier just to put a modifier on top of it, instead of having to somehow convert it to the new corona camera. If new changes to the camera are made, we don't have to re-convert it again. Unless you can implement an easy way to convert alembic/standard/vray cameras to corona camera. That's one of the things i don't like about vray camera / 3dsmax phys cam. Just putting a modifier on top of whatever camera and make it compatible works perfectly.

Or DeadClown could add a Camera converter if possible, what would solve the problem, right?
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2017-09-07, 23:21:46
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I think both, CameraMod and CoronaCamera can live together =)

2017-09-08, 10:27:05
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Personally I think we'd rather the old cameramod remained usable, for total backwards compatibility. If we need to re-load an old job (happens all the time) and re-render, it would not be ideal if we no longer have access to the cameramod.

And an update to the corona converter script that will allow you to convert any regular camera with a mod on it > coronacamera with all the correct values would solve that problem too.
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2017-09-09, 02:23:27
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9/8 db , Thanks for the beginning of the Corona Material Library. I expect this will be a very convenient way to store our mat assets.
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2017-09-09, 03:56:23
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the corona material library, that's a nice cool feature.
I thought it would be something like dropdownlist template in arch&design material :D