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[Max] I need help! / Re: How do I reduce the strength of secondary bounces (color bleed) globally?

« on: 2019-01-18, 16:38:26 »

Sure.
Here you go.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Want to have speed improvement for free? Suggested settings for speed

« on: 2019-01-17, 17:50:36 »

I couldn't notice a difference in realism to be honest.
Yes, the image gets darker, but you can play with the exposure.

For some projects, probably most, I'd choose to have agile interactivity rather than to care about a slight difference in brightness

Also I'd be interested in knowing other tips that could speed up rendering with little "repercussions".

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[Max] General Discussion / Want to have speed improvement for free? Suggested settings for speed

« on: 2019-01-17, 17:30:32 »

Hi,

If you want to render faster, change these settings from the defaults.

In the Performance tab:
Max Sample Intensity to 1

In UHD Cache, also in performance:
Precision: 0.1

You'll be able to compare the difference better if you set IR Subsampling at 0, in Performance/Development/Interactive rendering.

Does anyone suggest anything else to speed rendering up?

Thanks.
Guido.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: How do I reduce the strength of secondary bounces (color bleed) globally?

« on: 2019-01-14, 16:03:47 »

Thanks Maru, Ondra.

I like the contrast when I lower the MSI value.
But it does something strange with 1 or lower values though:
All textures in reflections are blurred to their average color.
For example if I have the camera pointing to a mirror, and I have MSI in 0.1, all textures reflected in the mirror are blurred to an average (or clamped?).
The same textures visible outside the mirror remain ok.

I read this https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000515636-what-is-max-sample-intensity-msi-
but it doesn't seem to say anything about that; only about reflection caustics. No?

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Gallery / Re: PARQUE MEXICO

« on: 2019-01-12, 18:22:37 »

Nice! Cam07 is my favorite.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: How do I reduce the strength of secondary bounces (color bleed) globally?

« on: 2019-01-11, 17:56:00 »

Thanks, but I was hoping to control it globally by reducing the intensity of the secondary GI.
Is this possible to do?

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[Max] I need help! / How do I reduce the strength of secondary bounces (color bleed) globally?

« on: 2019-01-11, 16:20:17 »

Hi there,

I feel that the color bleeding is too strong in general. How can I reduce it globally and not with rayswitch?

Thanks.

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General CG Discussion / Re: best mouse for 3ds MAX

« on: 2019-01-09, 16:25:33 »

Yes Logitech is super expensive. And it has uncanny "feature" of stopping functioning eventually, I used to replace Performance MX every six months once...

I have the same problem with Logitech M325. I need to change it every 6 months. Not acceptable.
My desk is starting to look like a mouse infestation.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Atmosphere based on Z-Depth as post effect in VFB

« on: 2019-01-09, 16:11:16 »

What I'm looking for is the following (attached). I don't know how they did it. But I remember using successfully Dreamscape with Vray in 2005. It cannot be scattering I would think.
The same style as Unreal or E-on's ozone.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Atmosphere based on Z-Depth as post effect in VFB

« on: 2019-01-08, 23:48:11 »

Would it be possible to have a cheap (to compute) atmosphere based on the z depth channel, available in the tonmaping area?

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: The most wanted feature?

« on: 2019-01-08, 23:43:47 »

All of them??
That's a bit too much.

 😂 😂 😂 😂

:)
Actually, I wasn't being sarcastic or anything.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: The most wanted feature?

« on: 2019-01-08, 22:46:43 »

In fact, we want to attempt (cannot promise anything) most of the features mentioned here in v4.

Thanks for answering Ondra. Looking forward to the new release then. It would be a major thing if all those features would get implemented.

All of them??
That's a bit too much.
I'd be very happy to see the top 2 really well implemented.

Thank you Ondra for your patience and for this great product.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: The most wanted feature?

« on: 2019-01-08, 00:08:54 »

cpus being dead

If anyone here thinks this then they got the wrong forum to talk about it.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: The most wanted feature?

« on: 2019-01-07, 20:38:48 »

Of course everyone will say yes to the question "do you want to render faster?"
But how fast can Corona get by just improving the code? I can't imagine the difference being significant to match a GPU render engine and a couple of GPUs.
I'd think Corona is at the mercy of CPU development, and I think the user base knows this and it's ok with it.

And I'd say the same with RAM. Get more RAM if you need it.
But we can't get a better BRDF elsewhere and plug it in to Corona.

Pretty sure siger has a brdf shader as dub at did some tests with it

Thanks. It was just an example.
Edit: Are you sure it's a BRDF or is it maps?

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: The most wanted feature?

« on: 2019-01-07, 20:05:44 »

Of course everyone will say yes to the question "do you want to render faster?"
But how fast can Corona get by just improving the code? I can't imagine the difference being significant to match a GPU render engine and a couple of GPUs.
I'd think Corona is at the mercy of CPU development, and I think the user base knows this and it's ok with it.

And I'd say the same with RAM. Get more RAM if you need it.
But we can't get a better BRDF elsewhere and plug it in to Corona.