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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] Feature Requests => Topic started by: romullus on 2019-03-31, 11:27:51

Title: Corona Null material
Post by: romullus on 2019-03-31, 11:27:51
I would like to propose Corona Null material, that once assigned to an object, it would completely eliminate it from scene, as if it were hidden. Such material might not be useful on its own, but in combination with new the Corona Select material, it would become very handy scene management tool. Yes, i'm aware that one can already achieve same result with regular material and zero opacity or with empty rayswitch material, but this still degrades scene performance and thus is not ideal solution.
Title: Re: Corona Null material
Post by: Njen on 2019-03-31, 21:09:56
Not sure what the reason for this request is, but isn't setting the object's '.renderable' property off essentially the same thing?
Title: Re: Corona Null material
Post by: romullus on 2019-03-31, 21:23:58
AFAIK object settings are not animateable and that makes very big difference.
Title: Re: Corona Null material
Post by: Njen on 2019-03-31, 22:22:56
You can animate the '.visibility' property though.
Title: Re: Corona Null material
Post by: romullus on 2019-03-31, 22:37:45
Yes, but visibility doesn't do what i requested - even with visibility set to 0, object is still loaded at render time. It's no different than changing opacity at material level.