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[Max] Feature Requests / GPU Option for Interactive Render

« on: 2021-05-20, 20:17:56 »

How feasible is it to offer an option to use GPU for the interactive render?
I am rendering a scene with 3.9m faces, one Corona Sun and an environment map. If I start the interactive render, CPU use goes to 100% and 3dsMax starts lagging tremendously, like click and wait 15-20sec for a response. Click once too often while waiting and Max will crash. While the CPU is maxxed out, the GPU is sitting at 0%...

I have  Xeon W-2125 @ 4.00Ghz, 64GB Ram, Quadro RTX4000, running Win10 Pro for Workstations

Thanks, Sean

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[Max] I need help! / No Texture on backside of glass

« on: 2019-03-13, 17:08:01 »

I'm having a problem texturing glass material. Example: a 1" thick glass table top with all sides smooth except the bottom which has bump texture applied. The glass top renders as though there is no texture at all. Smooth glass all around. However, moving the camera to view the bottom of the glass directly and the texture renders. Move the camera up to view from the top, the texture disappears.
A bug in Corona? or just a setting that I'm missing?

BTW, same result using displacement
Sean

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[Max] I need help! / Render Mask Colors

« on: 2017-08-03, 15:36:14 »

Is there a way to select and apply specific colors to the render elements when rendering the mask layer? Corona apparently selects random colors to apply, and sometimes they are very similar. It would be nice if I could define which colors were applied to which object in the mask. Is this possible in 1.6?

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[Max] I need help! / CXR File Save

« on: 2017-04-27, 18:38:54 »

The new Image Editor feature and the ability to save as EXR/CXR is awesome!
However, I was wondering if Corona requires that all Render Elements be saved as a separate CXR file? I have 4 lights in the scene + Environment + Interactive LightMix enabled, and when the render is complete, I end up with 6 files being saved.  The original output file(the one I named for output in the Corona Setup window) contains all the lighting info, so what's the point of saving out these other files? It's easy enough to delete them, but seems like saving all these files should be an option that I could turn off.

Sean

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[Max] I need help! / Lightmix and Post features

« on: 2016-10-11, 16:10:42 »

Awesome update to the features in 1.5! However, I'm wondering if there is a way to save the ability for the LightMix adjustment when rendering via network? When rendering locally its no problem, but when the network render finishes, the render window closes. Is it possible to re-open the image in the render window to adjust the lighting? What am I missing?

Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / RenderPal V2 for Corona?

« on: 2016-07-14, 17:30:00 »

Anyone here using RenderPal? I need a server that will enable multiple renders consecutively and read somewhere that RenderPal was recommended for use with Corona. I downloaded RenderPal and started through the manual, but the 'easy to understand' instructions appear to have been written by, and for programmers and IT pros. Anyone have any  success setting up and using RenderPal? Or other render server?

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[Max] I need help! / DR on 3rd Party??

« on: 2016-05-04, 23:23:14 »

Is there any way to get Corona DR to run on a third party application such as RenderPal? If not, what are the chances that this would happen in the future.
 We have been trying to get Backburner to function but get nothing but errors. Our IT guy has spend hours with Autodesk tech support troubleshooting, with no success. Backburner is a dead horse. According to Autodesk, it is obsolete. They recommended RenderPal.

Thanks
Sean