Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

[TomG]

Definitely something for the developers, rather than for me :)

[bluebox]

I guess you already did, but if not can you please pass the info :) ?

[TomG]

They will see it for sure, they monitor this discussion directly :)

[VASLAVO]

cant see if its been reported but some machines hangs when saving some images, interactive or backburnner, and also some machines hangs just before de denoise pass on backburnner, latest daily build

[effilang]

Installer issue here as well: 0xc0000142 (Windows 10)

Thanks.

[alexyork]

Any progress on the crashes/freezing during cleanup? We'd make the jump onto this daily once that's fixed, as the coronabitmap switch is a god-send.

[romullus]

Hi Alex, could you tell what that Coronabitmap switch does? Very curious, as i don't have ability to install dailies at all :[

[alexyork]

It disables coronabitmap from constantly polling maps/paths for changes to maps. We discovered this recently, that basically if >1 user is accessing the same maps simultaneously on a server/NAS/wherever then it massively slows down max performance. We identified this issue with Ondra (thanks man!!!) and they've put this switch in as a temporary work-around until they fix the coronabitmap loader to properly handle this. It's a MASSIVE improvement for teams, basically.

[Frood]

Any progress on the crashes/freezing during cleanup?

I'm now pretty sure it's related to B&G and/or the progress bar. If you don't use B&G or just don't have the VFB post tab open, there have not been any freezes yet.


Good Luck

[Frood]

as i don't have ability to install dailies at all :[

Are you still on Win 10 v.16XX or 17XX?


Good Luck

[alexyork]

Any progress on the crashes/freezing during cleanup?

I'm now pretty sure it's related to B&G and/or the progress bar. If you don't use B&G or just don't have the VFB post tab open, there have not been any freezes yet.


Good Luck

Interesting. Unfortunately we use it all the time so.. :/ Hopefully that can be sorted for next daily and we can roll up!

[Frood]

It disables coronabitmap from constantly polling maps/paths for changes to maps

@corona team: unfortunately the switch did not resolve this very nasty one:
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=21189.msg131005#msg131005


Good Luck

[romullus]

I can't find texture baking on the roadmap anymore. I wonder what's its status? Are you still planing to implement projection baking sometime, or it was abandoned?

BTW, i found that baking opacity mapped objects (hair planes), is extremelly slow, but that probably is expected.

[Ondra]

I can't find texture baking on the roadmap anymore. I wonder what's its status? Are you still planing to implement projection baking sometime, or it was abandoned?

BTW, i found that baking opacity mapped objects (hair planes), is extremelly slow, but that probably is expected.

We cannot comment on this without breaking NDAs yet

[romullus]

Hm, not sure what to think about this, but i'll take it as a sign that texture baking wasn't swept under rug :]