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Gallery / Re: Caustic porn :D

« on: 2012-10-20, 16:24:10 »

I've just toned it down a bit

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Gallery / Re: Caustic porn :D

« on: 2012-10-20, 15:55:05 »

I see you've added the wallpapers into the first post, nice

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

« on: 2012-10-20, 11:23:00 »

I've removed the bidirectional path tracing, as it is implemented now. You can remove your votes and then vote again with some different third feature.

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[Archive] Alpha Builds / Re: Alpha3 released!

« on: 2012-10-20, 02:18:10 »

yes... or upgrade to windows 7 :D

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[Archive] Alpha Builds / Re: Alpha3 released!

« on: 2012-10-19, 23:54:34 »

Windows Vista 64.

Ooops ;). Just went over the code, looks like I forgot to fix the legacy-breaking parts of Embree last time I've integrated new version. So Alpha3 is Windows7+. I'll try to fix this for next stable version

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[Archive] Alpha Builds / Re: Alpha3 released!

« on: 2012-10-19, 22:20:20 »

What version of windows do you use? I am guessing XP x64. Only newer ones (Vista+) are supported

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[Archive] Alpha Builds / Re: Alpha3 released!

« on: 2012-10-19, 21:45:41 »

It looks like you have either not copied Corona_release.dll into the root folder of 3dsmax, or not installed the MSVC redistributable

_Edit:Definitely the first one (by looking at the first error message). Make sure you have the corona_release.dll copied into the 3dsmax root folder (where 3dsmax.exe is)

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: low res bitmaps in render

« on: 2012-10-19, 21:39:22 »

Yeah, I'm blaming this one on 3dsmax API documentation, or lack of thereof. They give no clue about how to implement some stuff so default bitmaps would display reasonably :/

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Some minor stuff I've noticed

« on: 2012-10-19, 14:12:52 »

hm, thats production defaults not activating. You are getting my debugging defaults instead. I'll have to look into it.

I know about the second problem, its just pain to set up correctly, so I was doing new algorithms instead until now ;)

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Gallery / Re: Caustic porn :D

« on: 2012-10-19, 10:49:36 »

1280*800, but 1920*1200 would be nice too ;)

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News / Re: Bidirectional path tracing added!

« on: 2012-10-19, 00:40:22 »

Do you think "fancy lots-of-small-windows-cathedral scenes" will be faster with the new bidirectional path tracing? Tried some animation tests today and I came to the conclusion that i will have to wait for faster sampling stuff ;)

No, it won't probably help with this...

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News / Re: Bidirectional path tracing added!

« on: 2012-10-18, 23:47:27 »

soon ;) - as soon as I decorrelate direct lighting, and make it work with ideally specular materials

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News / Bidirectional path tracing added!

« on: 2012-10-18, 23:41:22 »

I've finally completed the bidirectional path tracing implementation. It is new unbiased GI method, much faster in certain difficult scenes.

Comparison with path tracing:


Caustics-heavy scene (the patterns on ceiling are caustics)

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: What would be Corona in the future?

« on: 2012-10-18, 23:22:31 »

1986 ;)

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: What would be Corona in the future?

« on: 2012-10-18, 22:58:24 »

Hi & welcome ;).

Commercial release is planned, with user-friendly pricing and a free non-commercial version.