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[Max] I need help! / Images save darker

« on: 2019-03-28, 11:26:21 »

Hello,

I'm having an issue, when I save an image from the VFB they are darker when saved. This happens with jpg, png, tiff's. It does not happen when I save a CXR and from there save the image.

I've never had this before and it's only happening in this particular scene. I already tried to import into a new file but that did not solve it. My Gamma settings (max) are also correct.

So it's very strange, the VFB shows an image but when I save it, it becomes darker.

- Joep

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Tiles only working right in Interactive Preview Renderer

« on: 2018-06-15, 09:29:24 »

In the RC2 version of CR 2 the Tiles map is only working right when rendered with the IPR. When production rendering the tiles appear to be much larger (100x or so).

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[Max] I need help! / Link tiling amount

« on: 2018-06-07, 19:36:31 »

Hi,

Maybe this is already possible somehow but I'm wondering if there is an easy way to do it. I often find myself changing the Tiling number of a bitmap for every bitmap that's used in a material. Is there an easy way to link the tiling numbers of a few bitmaps together via node or something?

- Joep

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[Max] General Discussion / Additive mode in After Effects doesn't give the same result as in Photoshop

« on: 2018-05-21, 16:30:49 »

Hello,

I'm doing an animation and I need to be able to animate the lights in After Effects. I've exported all light layers to an EXR (with the right settings from the CESSENTIALS tut video) and imported them to After Effects but the effect is not the same as in Corona's VFB. The weird thing is that when I import the same files in photoshop and also set the layers to Add, the effect IS correct.

Can somebody tell me what After Effects is doing differently than Photoshop?

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[Max] General Discussion / Color picker not working properly

« on: 2017-11-20, 09:32:47 »

Hello,

I've been struggling with this for while now and I have the feeling the problem I'm having is something basic, but I can't seem to figure out what it is. Whenever I want to pick a really dark grey color (something inbetween 0 - 21 value) the color picker always switches back to either 0 or to 21 (depending on the value). This also goes for other colors which are very slightly saturated, they flip back to completely dark or just another sat value. Which means I cannot choose some colors that I need. This also happens with unchecking the sRGB tick. Whenever I do this and click Oke, and then go back in the color picker, the checkbox is checked again.

I now solve this with a Color correction node but that is inaccurate. So what causes this?

Btw I'm using the Corona color picker.

-J

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[Max] General Discussion / 1.7 Lens shift

« on: 2017-10-27, 11:18:38 »

Hello,

I'm working with the new corona cam and I'm very happy with it! Being able to select it properly is a life saver on it's own, and having all the settings in one spot also saves some time. So thanks for that upgrade!

But the problem I'm having is that the Shift Lens feature works differently than the Shift Lens on Max's Physical Camera. The perspective seems to distort instead of just shift the image. Why is this? This is not the what I want in my images.

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[Max] General Discussion / More ram used in 1.7 RC9

« on: 2017-10-20, 12:33:09 »

Hi,

I've installed CR 1.7 RC9 because I was hoping for some less RAM usage but unfortunately it ended up using more RAM. The scene I'm rendering takes up 70Gb of RAM and I have 72Gb installed, so this is a close shave. When I had 1.6 installed this worked fine but with 1.7 3ds Max crashes. The road map showed that there was some memory optimization but now it's using even more RAM, so I'm wondering where the optimization takes place. Can somebody shed a light on this?

- J

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[Max] General Discussion / Change preview scene 3ds max

« on: 2017-09-28, 11:30:08 »

I have a quick question. Is het possible to change the preview scene the materials use when editing a material? I would like to have different preview scenes for different materials. For fabrics for example I would to have some draped mesh or part of a couch to accurately edit the material without having to set up a scene.

Thanks :)

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General CG Discussion / Looking for certain models

« on: 2017-08-18, 09:31:35 »

Hello,

I'm doing an archviz project and the client wants a bit more trending look. This means that lots of furniture and props are made of raw materials like rough driftwood. This for example:



Does anyone know where to find these kinds of models? Would be much appreciated!

- Joep

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[Max] I need help! / The color in 3ds max is off

« on: 2017-08-12, 15:11:56 »

Hello,

I'm struggling with this for a while now. When I pick a color from an image in my browser, for example to match a RAL color, the color is much lighter in 3ds max with the same RGB value's. I've looked this up but could only find that I need to correct my Gamma value in 3ds max. The value is now 2.2 which should be good, but I still get much brighter colors when I enter them. Example:



Can somebody explain to me why this is, and possibly have a solution?

- Joep

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[Max] General Discussion / Slow interactive rendering - subsampling

« on: 2017-06-11, 17:59:55 »

Hi,

I've upgraded to 1.6 and found that the interactive subsampling is not working as near as fast as in the video that's posted on youtube about the new features. For me in 1.6 the screen refreshes every 1 - 1.5 seconds, which is far from realtime. So how is this possible? I running a dual Xeon E5 2699 V3 at 2.1Ghz, might is be because of low single core speed? I have to add that interactive rendering never worked as fast for me as I see in the corona youtube channel videos.

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Off-Topic / Coffee maker model

« on: 2017-02-27, 16:07:09 »

Hello everyone,

When I started using corona I was looking for all kinds models which were rendered realistically so I could learn form them. I remember having downloaded a model of a coffee maker which looked very good and was free. But I cannot find the model anymore. I was hoping someone here knows what I'm talking about. The coffee maker looks like this:



I'm also willing to pay for such a model but I has to be a good one. The one I found have realistic material and condensation inside the pot.

Hope somebody know :D

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Change render options in Backburner

« on: 2017-01-23, 14:22:09 »

Hello,

I've been using Backburner to do an animation with Corona 1.5.2 and what I noticed is that you can't change any corona setting in a job that's being rendered in Backburner. For example the sequence I'm rendering now takes 20 min per frame but when I look at the frames they are much sooner without noise, so I want to change the noise level to a high percentage. Unfortunately it's only possible to change native Max settings.

Could this be added in future builds?

Thanks.

All the best,
Joep

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[Max] I need help! / Send jobs over network

« on: 2016-12-22, 11:02:01 »

Hi,

I want to send individual jobs over the network to another pc. I know Distributive rendering is an option with corona but this function only allows the other PC to help rendering the current scene.

Is there a way to send individual jobs to another pc so I can keep working on my scene? Or do two renders at the same time.

Maybe it's possible but I can find out how to do this.

Thanks!

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[Max] General Discussion / Pause interactive render

« on: 2016-07-23, 11:26:32 »

Hello,

I'm still a new user to corona and everything has been working great! I love the speed, both for exporting a scene for interactive rendering and the render speed itself. I am now working on a very heavy scene (15 mil+ polygons) and working with interactive rendering can be slow and not responsive in this case. So I want to know if it is possible to pause the rendering so that I can move around in my scene and change stuff without the rendering window constantly refreshing and slowing things down?

I came from Maxwell Render and there is was possible to pause the render, this was a very useful feature so I hope it is possible in Corona as well.

Thanks