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General CG Discussion / 3D News and other technologies

« on: 2022-02-12, 17:57:48 »

Hello!
For over a year Im following all sorts of news found online about 3ds Max, new technologies in 3D or simulations and one thing isn't really clicking for me.

There are multiple papers published on very interesting topics and exciting solutions yet I rarely or never see them make their way into any of the products that I know of.

This is Adobe related technique so I guess Substance will have it soon, but please check out this:

Can anyone tell me what general route such technology has to take in order to be part of some products?

Also generally what YT channels do you guys follow related to 3D? What is your general source of news related to 3D if you use any...
Im really looking forward to having some conversations on this topic.

Regards
Mike

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 8 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2021-12-14, 14:14:24 »

Hello,
Is this anything worth investigating?

Im not sure if it is worth your time, but well that something right?

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona - Projection + Workaround

« on: 2021-12-14, 10:44:34 »

But it somewhat worked, now it does not work at all. Or I cant figure it out, anyway. That's a pickle, thank you!

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona - Projection + Workaround

« on: 2021-12-11, 11:10:08 »

Unless for some reason it is absolutely necessary to use Corona, i would suggest to look for other tools for texture projection. There are plenty of dedicated tools that does much better job at that, some of them are even free.

Aww... that sucks I was hoping I was doing something wrong. 😕

The render element normalmap should be removed from projection mapping since it does not work. I wanted two hours today figuring our what I was doing wrong.

Thank you for your answer Romullus

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona - Projection + Workaround

« on: 2021-12-11, 07:53:31 »

Hey,
projection does not work at all for normals at this moment, something changed and it got impossible to create projection normal maps.

Any other way to render to texture? I would love to get some assistance on this topic if possible.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: casutics solver is still crap

« on: 2021-09-04, 15:37:37 »

That's it - I am going to do it! I am going to become a coder, I used to know BASIC programming, how much harder can this be? And I am going to learn all about Light Transport and the physics and equations of it all! I am thinking by Corona 30 I should be ready to set to work on this caustics problem! Look out world... which reminds me, I can start with a "Hello world" program to get ready for it all!

It took corona to get to V7 about seven years, so tom are you sure you cant join the dev team before 2044?

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Is it possible to convert vray fur to corona fur?

« on: 2021-08-31, 19:48:55 »

Thank you! Cheers

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Is it possible to convert vray fur to corona fur?

« on: 2021-08-31, 01:55:15 »

And now?

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Gallery / Re: A wooden digital scale model

« on: 2021-04-13, 00:56:02 »

Looking good, very smooth way of showing some early stages

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: What's a good course to learn Corona?

« on: 2020-12-11, 11:21:22 »

Corona has many applications there are little or no courses that just covers corona in full at once.

You should be more specific, what field would you like to work in? What client you potentially would like to get?

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Rendering stops by itself - got this problem?

« on: 2020-12-11, 04:47:30 »

If anyone is still having this problem with Corona v2, here are two things we would like you to try:

1) Make sure that the noise level limit is set to 0 - just select the value, and type "0" using keyboard. In some cases, 3ds Max may enter a value such as 0,002 in there, and it will be displayed as "0", but the rendering may still stop at some point, when the limit of 0,002 is reached. Once you are 100% sure that the noise limit is set to 0,00:

2) Use pass limit instead of noise limit - does the random stopping also appear when using pass limit?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Right now we unfortunately do not have any new findings regarding this. The issue is either too random, or system-specific.

Hi I know It's super old but I experienced this right now.
3ds Max 2018 on C6.1 - Rendering stops as soon as the noise calculation kicks in.

I did not experience that on 2021.3, C6.1 yet but I sometimes hear about this error from people I work with.
Prune Scene sometimes helped with this problem for some reason.

Regards

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Scatter speed improvements

« on: 2020-11-09, 17:33:32 »

This thread is sadly empty, while the Corona Scatter improvements are really awesome! Here is the V5 vs V6 video from our release blog post:

Anyone who uses Scatter in Corona knows what they are getting into, so the speed isn't the biggest issue.

But as Marchik mentioned, the lack of functionality can be.

Looking forward to seeing future improvements.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 7 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2020-11-09, 17:31:11 »

Hey guys, just checking in to see if we have any news on Scatter improvements.

Cheers.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Any way to remove the gradient effect from corona distance?

« on: 2020-10-31, 15:54:16 »

Sounds like you just need to use "color inside" instead of near.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Material Library - Appreciation & discussion thread

« on: 2020-08-12, 09:36:27 »

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Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.

Anynews?