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Gallery / Re: Cornish Coast Superhome

« on: Yesterday at 11:12:33 »

Fantastic. I didn't know England could look like that :- ).

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Gallery / Re: The Geisel Library

« on: 2025-04-14, 11:21:03 »

Nice touch with sad Keanu! :- D Well fitting.

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[Max] Tutorials & Guides / Re: 3ds max + Corona + Windows = Finally good performance

« on: 2025-03-24, 14:31:29 »

It's just making sure it's more permanently disabled through Local Group Policy Editor (just type after hitting Start button), but it's not so bulletproof, I wasn't able to eradicate Copilot from Win11 by using this :- ) Windows have plenty of ways to override even group policy these days.
To disable Real-time protections through LGPE you also have to disable Anti-Tamper before in Security settings otherwise it will reset after restart.

I wouldn't say it's the smartest thing to do in this age, majority of performance will be recouped by exempting 3dsMax.exe from most Real-time protections.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Corona 12H1 Scaling issue

« on: 2025-03-17, 15:17:26 »

If the VFB 1.0 is fix though, then it isn't much of issue then. I had no idea I had to restart session for it to work.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Corona 12H1 Scaling issue

« on: 2025-03-17, 15:03:38 »

I am idiot, I meant to say 3dsMax 2023. I do mean to update eventually but I am slow moving vehicle as I hate installing all the plugins and scripts and setting everything up.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Corona 12H1 Scaling issue

« on: 2025-03-16, 19:34:38 »

Absolutely doesn't work on my laptop with external monitor. Both are 4K, one is set to 200perc, other 150perc. It looks wrong on both, but it follows the one that is set as primary monitor, so laptop's 200perc.

To correct it, the scale would need to accept 0.5, because right now at 1.0 it looks 200perc. zoomed.
Can't set to Corona VFB 1.0, doesn't do anything, shows 2.0 regardless of what I set.

Max 2024, Latest Corona public.

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General CG Discussion / Re: Chaos Group cannibalizing it's user base

« on: 2025-02-02, 19:31:29 »

If you had the "fortune" to meet ChaosGroup CEO like I did, you would be surprised how much he values crap like that Cylindo. He thought it was revolutionary.. and that was I think 2 years ago.

Agree with your assessment fully.

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen builds

« on: 2025-01-19, 17:52:14 »

Sure, relevant thread :- ).

But I think you answered your main question, 7950X is heavily discounted on market, and 9950X goes for slight premium right now. Real advantage is not 10-15perc, it's more like 5 in production environment.

- Don't get Torrent & AIO, it's really poor fit. Either get Torrent + Air Cooler (like NH-D16), AIO + any other case that fits 360+ mm radiator. Solid evergreen choice is Arctic Liquid Freezer, it's one of the cheapest but has the thickest radiator of all so very much the best performance as well.
- 4x 48GB (192GB ram) can be challenge to run solidly, I would check some Reddit builds for those get it running stable. 4x32GB is easier to get stable. Slightly higher-end motherboard helps in this regard, but the stability is bit of lottery based on each individual CPU chip (since the memory controller is responsible for this). But I would try 4x 48 if it's in your budget, you can always return it :- ). With 192GB, you might find the EXPO doesn't run stable, or doesn't boot at all, in that case run EXPO and manually lower frequency. It's not performance issue for production work, it can barely be felt in games. People online are hysteric when it comes to memory frequency.

- No motherboard recommendation. I were building Ryzen build right now, I would buy Micro-ATX board and some small case. (I would even build Mini-ITX with 2 DIMM slots only since 96GB can be plenty even for my work majority of times).

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Hardware / Re: Color space/mode

« on: 2024-12-26, 14:09:57 »

Im just reading a few threads on this topic at the moment trying to ascertain how to get consistent sRGB or AdobeRGB outputs from Corona now that colour management is a thing.
This seems to be the most recent thread discussing it and sorry to hijack it for a slightly different question. But If someone who has a better understanding than I could post some advice on what settings to use within colour management and then what to do within photoshop to ensure consistency between the VFB and the image im seeing in photoshop that would be great.

Juraj, i followed some steps from a post you made a few years ago which were very helpful thank you. But now colour management exists in max is there a better way to ensure consistency? Or does the missing profile assignment in the max save system still dictate that the below is the best way?

This is the comment i mentioned above.

Quote from: Juraj on 2021-03-05, 21:30:18

This is correct workflow for this monitor for 3dsMax/Corona.

1) Monitor OSD Menu: Select sRGB mode. Then adjust brightness to your liking. (Fun fact: Calibration is also done to exact brightness levels, but if you move it +/- 50perc. the difference in accuracy is not drastic).
2) Type Color management into taskbar in Windows, select your monitor, check "Use my settings" and select "sRGB" ICC profile. Set "Use as default".
3) When loading any rendering into Photoshop, you don't need to do anything if your settings are set to "Don't Ask". It will stay unmanaged and you only need to "Assign" sRGB profile at the end of export, for examply when saving to final file. Don't convert to any other profile.

The above workflow doesn't work for high-gamut displaying (DCI-P3, HDR workflow,etc..) or printing (AdobeRGB, LAB,etc.). But since 3dsMax & Corona are not color managed (Autodesk Maya and Vray for example are), this is the best scenario to use right now. Least headaches. Colors are always correct, you're just not using wide-gamut capability, which is ok since most devices are sRGB only, even today.

I didn't update to 3dsMax with OCIO yet. I am also confused by some of the answers Corona Team gave in relationship to Corona synergy with that OCIO config (they never gave exact answer and my feeling is the answers are almost always partially incorrect).
Until then, can't really answer much.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Tonemapping Order/Behaviour

« on: 2024-12-17, 13:17:31 »

No, I am pretty sure he just wants saturation to work like saturation does everywhere else :- ) Just compare what saturation levels do in Photoshop, Lightroom, iPhone editor, etc.. etc. Corona Saturation causes nuclear colors the moment the value is at "0.02" (which I presume would be 100perc. more saturation in some other apps..)

There is also Vibrance, which is saturation on scale (i.e it saturates primarily low-saturated tones to avoid over-saturating the ones which are already close to peak).

HDR vs SDR(LDL) is something different than Linear/Non-linear. The first refers to values outside of (0-1) values, the second if value is linear or on (gamma 2.2 for example) curve.
The majority of operators don't actually read the previous data correctly, they either clamp them back to (0-1) or ignore values outside of that range, I can't know how it works internally, but I can clearly see the result. Ondra suggested once labeling them into groups.

But that discussion went nowhere already 5 years ago..

But the Saturation should be easy fix. The current one is completely bonkers.

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Off-Topic / Re: Clients and AI

« on: 2024-12-11, 00:34:01 »

Actually, they're one of my best clients.

speed things up and cut costs.

Well if that isn't the definition of amazing client than I don't know ;- )

Anyway, AI for this question can be replaced by any tool or technique, it's somewhat a red herring in my opinion.
The crux seems to be client unwilling to listen to authority, which should be you. It's communication and trust issue, everlasting problem in any relationship, business or otherwise.

I personally wouldn't want client telling me what and how to do, he came to me for that expertise. But if he would have more expertise than me, than I would be a poor fit.
Usually just one of those can apply at same time for given topic. It's up to you to decode whether your client is just micromanaging AI-hype obssesed dreamer, or whether you need to pick up the slack and integrate wider AI skillset (if that's what you want to).

But this seems to be an odd relationship. And I don't think AI is the issue.

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Off-Topic / Re: Clients and AI

« on: 2024-12-10, 13:27:37 »

This sounds like quite a shitty client to have ;- ) But I understand if it's your main source of income, you might not be considering dropping him. But that would be the best solution.

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Hardware / Re: Color space/mode

« on: 2024-11-24, 10:29:15 »

I don't mean just internal rendering-space or respecting input. Is there anything output wise? Any check-box in Framebuffer? Does Corona saves the file with embedded color-profiles?
I didn't see any announcement, so this would be good news to me.

And DCI-P3 (and custom ICC) would be the useful one for design/graphic industry.

Can you link me to where it states what is supported?

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona 13 daily builds IR/viewport slowdown

« on: 2024-11-24, 10:24:13 »

Monitoring VRAM is good idea. I use 16+ GB VRAM GPUs but even then I still use only 1024px Viewport setting (remember CoronaBitmap uses the Environment setting, so just set 3x1024px and enjoy looking at blurry shit in viewport :- D !)

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Hardware / Re: Color space/mode

« on: 2024-11-16, 13:29:51 »

"Native" is just random wide-gamut, so lot's of colors, but not any specific space.

When Corona implements full support for 3dsMax 2025 OCIO, you can set your monitor to anything, though ideally AdobeRGB or DCI-P3 for wide-gamut workflow. It's still best to export in sRGB unless your clients know what color-managed pipeline is, or they're on Apple device.
Right now, your best choice is to either set sRGB mode through monitor OSD menu, or through this free utility in desktop https://github.com/ledoge/novideo_srgb