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Hardware / Need advice/recommendations for new 27 monitor

« on: 2023-09-18, 12:41:03 »

Hi folks,
my trusty Dell 27 is acting up and I need to get a replacement monitor asap,

looking at a budget of €400-500, have used Dell for years and no probs till now, would appreciate any advice, most of my work is 3DS MAX/PS (running a 1070ti card)

Thanks
Tom

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[Max] I need help! / corona distance for road markings,

« on: 2023-06-26, 00:39:47 »

folks, this is probably easy but how can i get different road markings to use different colours
currenty using extruded splines, want the red box to be red on the road (not white as it currently is)
the purple splines (road markings) as all fine as they are
if I need 2 coronadistance maps (1 for each colour) plugged into the the base colour of the road what maps should i plug them into before going into the base colour
Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / corona8 frame buiffer, darker

« on: 2022-05-06, 12:08:09 »

Hi,
I seen to have a prob,
just started with Corona R8, and getting darker images than expected when i open in PS. gamma enables and set to 2.2 (reminds me of  the horrible vray days)
I render and save as png, > i open in PS then image is darker than the corona frame buffer image.
this wasnt happening in R6 (I skipped R7 )
any ideas?
Thanks
T

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[Max] I need help! / Quick question on animation and lightmix

« on: 2021-09-08, 19:43:34 »

hi,
i normally work on stills but going to do an interior animation,
I have got my scene looking the way i want it using LightMix,
Q: i'm rendering out 200 frames, do i need to save each Render Element (of which there are about 8) for each frame? so I would be looking at a folder of stills containing 1600 images (8 images per frame x 200frames) and the only ones i need for compositing are the lightmix ones
hope this makes sense
thanks

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[Max] General Discussion / new PC build , licence question

« on: 2021-06-28, 17:18:09 »

Hi,
I have a new build running and want to use Corona on it, I have 1 license FairSaas that is currently running on my old pc,
I have it for 4+ yrs now so can't remember the original install license activation method :-(
can i run and activate corona on my new build as long as I don't start up the old PC  and activate Corona on it, i.e. Is the FairSaas license effectively a floating license?????
I am currently using is in 30 day demo mode on new PC.
Thanks
Tom

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[Max] I need help! / need to make this cladding by maps or other,

« on: 2021-06-21, 20:57:15 »

hi all
I'm under pressure to get a building faced done, and am having probs with the cladding,
what would you advice to do to get this cladding down, i..e model or use texture maps (tiles)
i'd would rather use maps/procedural as it is not a close up shot and also the time saved in modelling all these panels, can Bercon tile do anything like this?
any advise would be much appreciated,
Thanks
Tom

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[Max] I need help! / [solved] trying to wire Corona Bitmap to Corona sun

« on: 2021-03-23, 11:17:53 »

howdy,
in the relentless pursuit to get some decent exterior renders I am trying to wire a Corona Bitmap (HDR) to Corona sun
I'm following the 2nd video on this page (https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000516732) but my corona sun does not give the rotation option shown in video at 1:42, i have transform and Roll angle as shown in attached image but I cant proceed after that :-(
is it something with my max as to why the settings are different ? (Max 2018)
any assistance is greatly appreciated,
Tom

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / No idea why this started to appear, CoronaColourMapper coronautils2013.dlt

« on: 2021-03-12, 00:10:17 »

Hi,
this message started this week, pops up when i open mats editor,
haven't changed anything to cause it, I reinstalled Corona 6 hotfix 1 tonight and still happening,
any ideas?
running max2018 with Corona 6 (hotfix1)
cheers

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[Max] I need help! / looking for help on creating oxblood leather

« on: 2020-03-02, 12:37:25 »

hi,
I need to create this type of material (oxblood) for a sofa similar to attached,
is a corona AO material the logical way to go about this?
thanks
t

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[Max] General Discussion / lighmix keeps resetting

« on: 2020-02-18, 20:40:01 »

hmm, not sure if this is the norm, but when i have tweaked light settings in lightmix and then add in another light into the scene- I click on generate lightmix to get the new light listed in the mixer , all the settings that i had set in lightmix return to defaults (all lights are set to 1 and white), effectively loosing all the previous tweaks i had :-(
don't remember having this issue before
using corona5
thanks

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General CG Discussion / 2D (or possibly 3D) Sports People

« on: 2019-10-16, 13:02:02 »

hi, looking for image cels or 3d models of sports people, that i can buy individually
have looked at Vizpeople,  and Dosch but I'd rather buy individual cels/models rather than full sets
Thanks

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[Max] General Discussion / corona vfb v image in photoshop

« on: 2019-09-26, 14:58:45 »

apologies as I know this has cropped up before but I just cant seem to get this fixed,
attached image is difference in Coroana's FB and the image opened in PS (when Ps is set to SRGB profile)
I was probably incorrectly using Monitor RBG in PS as the proof setup so switching that to Internet Std srgb causes a massive difference in Corona FB and PS

reading Juraj's replies here https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=13592.0
am i right in saying that framebuffer is wrong as it is oversaturated due to FB is non-colormanaged

What i have tried as a fix
save image from corona VB as a CXR, OPEN cxr in Corona image editor and save out as PNG,
Have photoshop's colour settings set to  monitors i.e. the Dell U2713
So when i open image (saved out of Corona'S FB as an ) in PS i will get a noticeable difference, To get the image looking similar in Photoshop I set the if i save that out for say a web image (convert to srgb is ticked)

appreciate any info,


max 2018 , gamma set to 2.2
monitor Dell U2713H - set to auto,

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[Max] I need help! / looking for general info on CFB when doing animation

« on: 2019-04-01, 19:32:18 »

Hi, I have swapped form Vray to Corona and love the lightmixer, I have a couple of basic questions on Corona workflow.

please advise if my understanding is correct using the following example:
e.g. I have a studio scene with a few lights in it and when rendering I tweak the lightmixer to get the desired look, so within the CFB the only image I am interested in is "filename_Lightmix" as the beauty pass looks nothing like what I want so I wont spend any time on it in post.
I save out the lightmix file as a cxr or png and do some post work on it. job done??

If I am rendering out an animation using 'camera_1' I need to save all the lightmixer light passes (via render elements), 3DMax will save out the beauty pass from the 'render output>common>filename' but again its the Lightmix images i am interested in and not the beauty pass so I ignore these beauty passes.
If I want to render a different camera angle (using "camera 2") of the animation i need to make sure i change name to "filename_Lightmix_'camera_2"  so it doesnt overwrite the original  "filename_Lightmix_camera_1"

hope this makes sense
Thanks
T

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[Max] I need help! / [solved] Seems noise level is higher in region of room (internal render)

« on: 2019-01-28, 18:33:42 »

sorry i know noise is a constant bane of our lives and usually the denoiser does its job, but for some reason i have an area of the room that the denoiser seems to be less effective, i have checked and the material is the same on the panelling,
The region circled red left of the fireplace is fine, but the right side is pretty noisey
any ideals ?
I'm using R2.0.
cheers

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[Max] I need help! / using Neatscatter droplets on bottle- memory probs

« on: 2018-10-29, 14:27:39 »

Hi Folks
I am using Neatscatter to place droplets on a bottle,
it renders in Vray and makes the droplets instances, Droplets do not render in Corona unless i convert to mesh or instances, I am familiar with Vray proxy and its great memory saving - i know Corona has a proxy tool but read that it doesn't save memory at rendering, what is the best way to manage a thousands of droplets on a bottle in Corona from a rendering/memory point of view?
thanks
T