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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Chaos Corona 11 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2023-07-17, 16:19:31 »

Really hoping for colour management in this next release. Trying to get renders from Max/Corona into photoshop and have them match the VFB output has been an absolute minefield for too long.

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General CG Discussion / Re: 3ds Max import FBX - ignore transforms

« on: 2023-07-16, 11:43:08 »

How can you import an .FBX so that it updates all mesh objects of the same names as the mesh objects stored in the FBX you are importing without affecting their transforms?

The simplest example is just importing different poses for the same character model over and over in Max but not affecting the position of the character in the scene

Marmoset Toolbag has a feature like this, to "reload" the FBX

You could import the fbx into a new file and the use the substitute modifier to xref it. Alternatively you could import it into a new file, name it as your pose\ and then merge it into your file. The use the substitute modifier on your positioned model to replace it with each pose. You could have multiple substitute modifiers in the satack, one for each pose and just toggle them on and off.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: The new Corona Converter feedback thread

« on: 2023-07-14, 11:14:28 »

@James Vella, maybe it's worth creating new topic in the user contribution board?

Sure if it helps. I didnt want to create a 3rd thread about it and bog down the forum but since you moderate this place I can do that if you think its best.

Especially if you have plans to continue development of the script. Honestly, judging by the amount of users requesting physical to Corona material conversion, i think your effort deserves a lot more attention than it got so far.

Not sure if I plan on developing it further but just wanted to help out for the time being and give myself a little project to work on. All the code is in .ms format so you can copy/paste, change, learn from it, whatever to suit your own workflow.

Also happy to hear some feedback about its real-world use since I'm just doing what I think would be useful but I dont actually ever use Autodesk Physical materials so I'm just pushing buttons =D

I would personally love something like this that works the other way too. Corona TO physical for the times where you need to share a model as say an FBX and the other party doesnt have corona.

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General CG Discussion / Re: Blender nearly realtime caustics, dispersion and thin-film effects

« on: 2023-06-28, 15:49:35 »

If the Corona devs would be open for more fake business, that opens up a whole bunch of other things we could benefit from.

I love a bit of fake business now and again

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General CG Discussion / Re: Blender nearly realtime caustics, dispersion and thin-film effects

« on: 2023-06-28, 15:48:32 »

saw your comment under youtube video :D

The author replied and it is infact a fake based on the shadow raycasting rather than any sort of refraction.

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General CG Discussion / Re: Blender nearly realtime caustics, dispersion and thin-film effects

« on: 2023-06-27, 23:05:18 »

I cant see any way that it can be calculating physically correct caustics that quickly and the fact that you can art direct the caustics makes me think its totally fake.
I notice that thers no side by side comparison with actual rendered caustics vs the shader.

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General CG Discussion / Re: Blender nearly realtime caustics, dispersion and thin-film effects

« on: 2023-06-26, 23:11:49 »

This has to be some sort of fake shader effect no?
It looks very good regardless.

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General CG Discussion / Re: AI what are peoples thoughts ? I think we are in for big change.

« on: 2023-06-26, 23:07:13 »

I seen one recently on FB from an artist named Matt Hallett. Apparently using the technique 'in-painting'. Think you can find his page under: Matt Hallett Visual

This was his before Image


This was his AI replacement

Ive been following those too. He is charging for a few courses on how to do it but id like to hear from others whether the pricetag is worth it.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Mapping source for CBitmaps

« on: 2023-06-12, 22:10:22 »

+1 Always annoying having to adjust parameters of multiple bitmaps for a PBR material.

I would add that it could be useful if this node could be applied as either an override mode OR a multiplier of sorts.
i.e. if i have a material set up with differing tiling settings WITHIN the bitmap nodes, this node should either override the bitmap option OR act as a multiplier and keep everything in the correct relationship if the bitmaps dont necessarily all have identical settings but you want to control all of them in one place.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Select Denoiser for IR

« on: 2023-06-12, 22:04:12 »

+1 for this. It would be great if there were some settings we could change from within the VFB such as overrides, global volume mtl, denoiser etc

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Renderer and the emergence of AI?

« on: 2023-06-12, 19:07:02 »

"Turn off translucency for all materials that start with veg in front" - done
"Select all objects with more then 500K polygons and generate proxies for them"

ChatGPT is ok at maxscript.  It could probably produce snippets for you. This isnt really a corona thing its a Max thing.

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General CG Discussion / Re: AI what are peoples thoughts ? I think we are in for big change.

« on: 2023-06-07, 19:02:47 »

I had wondered about the way AI could change rendering specifically and i wondered if we could end up with specialised models (the ai kind) that are hyper specialised packages that know how to render a specific object or surface style very very well. It could understand placement data from the 3d scene by using very basic placeholder objects for layout. Understands where the camera is, and lights are. And then uses lots and lots of specific stable diffusion models to generate the final image knitting it together mask by mask like an ID map.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 10 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2023-05-26, 13:28:54 »

I agree the new DOF highlight Solver looks great!

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Decal Channels playground!

« on: 2023-05-22, 20:29:43 »

This is very cool. Cant wait to see what people create!

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Tracking down the cause of a slowdown

« on: 2023-05-15, 22:15:32 »

Is there any way to set up any of the corona passes to highlight complex materials?
Would be super useful to be able to do like a false-colour pass to identify shaders causing slowdowns.

There is!

You can use the CInfo_TimePerSample element for this - https://docs.chaos.com/display/CRMAX/Render+Elements#RenderElements-CInfo

Ah fantastic, for some reason i assumed that was a render stamp type pass.