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[Max] Tutorials & Guides / Re: Corona - THE COMPLETE GUIDE - hardcopy book

« on: Today at 14:36:48 »

No new book - it takes a huge amount of time and work to put a book together, and then Corona is always changing, which is why we have never done a printed manual for Corona. We did attempt something similar for the old old version of the Corona Academy when it took place in person where we had a printed book to go along with it, but it proved impossible to keep it updated; I imagine the same issue would apply here.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: C4D 2024.4 Particles

« on: Today at 14:32:36 »

Not sure on sprites but at a guess you can simulate this by using geometry - like "billboard" trees and the like in older games, you would have a plane, set to always face the camera, and then have a texture on it for what the particle would look like. If using self-illumination or light material with emit light off, this should render very fast indeed, as you are basically just adding 2D sprites into the scene.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Black rectangles in saved images

« on: Yesterday at 22:01:17 »

We didn't make it for last week, as the QA process uncovered an issue, but the new HF is now out as of today. https://corona-renderer.com/download

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: 3DSMax 2025 ACES and Corona Render

« on: Yesterday at 21:51:44 »

We got delayed from last Wed, but the HF for 2025 is out now. https://corona-renderer.com/download

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General CG Discussion / Re: 3ds max 2025

« on: Yesterday at 21:51:04 »

And it's "Mon of next week" - and indeed the HF is live! https://corona-renderer.com/download

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona render 11 for 3dsmax 2025

« on: Yesterday at 21:50:32 »

Just so you don't miss the news, the HF for Max 2025 compatibility is out now :) https://corona-renderer.com/download

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: C4D 2024.4 Particles

« on: Yesterday at 21:37:07 »

That's what I saw too in a video about particles (though all the ones I found just focused on the generation and simulation, and stopped before talking about rendering lol!)

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[Max] I need help! / Re: 3dsmax crashes after starting render. Crashed Module Name: Corona_Release.dll

« on: Yesterday at 18:24:10 »

Sounds like the exact same issue that has been affecting gamers, e.g. see https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/is-your-intel-core-i9-13900k-crashing-in-games-your-motherboard-bios-settings-may-be-to-blame-other-high-end-intel-cpus-also-affected

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: C4D 2024.4 Particles

« on: Yesterday at 18:19:16 »

Like all and any third party engines (that is, anything that is not Redshift), you'll have to turn them into geometry (which is ultimately what Redshift is doing anyway, just in an in-built kind of way).

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Corona doesn't load VDB from C4D pyro sim

« on: 2024-04-12, 17:35:56 »

Loads fine here, what version of C4D and Corona are you using?

EDIT also bear in mind you don't need to save to VDB and load back in any more, if using Corona 11 or newer.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Very slow geometry phase 10x slower than old pc

« on: 2024-04-12, 16:16:12 »

We are checking this out :) In fact we just took delivery of a new super high core/thread count dual EPYC machine this week so that we can better investigate any reported issues along these lines.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona Sky

« on: 2024-04-09, 18:04:02 »

Most welcome! And glad it resolved it for you :)

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 12 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2024-04-09, 17:55:44 »

Ah unfortunately, things did not go to plan, some issues were uncovered, and the HF2 will now be out next Monday (if all goes to plan...). Sorry for the extra few days' wait!

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General CG Discussion / Re: 3ds max 2025

« on: 2024-04-09, 17:54:11 »

Unfortunately moved to Mon next week, after the discovery of a few issues.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona Sky

« on: 2024-04-09, 17:46:58 »

Sounds like either the Scene Environment in Scene settings in the Render Set up is not set to "3ds Max Settings (Environment tab)", or there is a Direct Visibility override enabled.