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[Max] General Discussion / Re: AI super-resolution speedup

« on: 2019-04-15, 22:43:21 »

What resolution was the animation ? I find that at 2k, even Corona native one is decently fast to use on animation with good quality.

Quality of both nVidia and Intel AI Denoisers are simply not good enough (or even close to good enough) for finals in my eyes at all (with Intel being worse at refraction), but at least nVidia is sky-high fast making for very cool IR compatriot. The only benefit I've seen for Intel are that Nodes don't have GPUs so denoising them can only be done with native one or Intel one. But if someone finds the AI denoise to be acceptable for final, that's to him, but I find it to be of very far bellow acceptable threshold.
I really don't want final images from one of the best ray-tracers on market focused on photorealism to be smeared and painterly like from photon mapping at 1995. I might as well fully switch to Unreal instead then and have sharp result in zero time.

without losing any detail

I don't find this to be true at all from my standpoint but you can post single frame if you would like (ideally before&after). If you are satisfied though that's good, that's all that matters.

Here is an example, with 7.0 noise limit and Intel denoise, did a fantastic job and kept all detail especially in grass and vegetation.  Only added 10sec. onto a 21min render, but saved at lease a third of time rendering. These are of course straight out of VFB.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: AI super-resolution speedup

« on: 2019-04-15, 18:35:35 »

Was more reply to Romullus then jab ;- ). Still...the Intel one is rather crap..

I got to say, we just used the intel denoiser on an animation with Corona and it was by far the best denoiser we have used. And we used quite a bit. It cleaned all the noise without losing any detail in very fast time. It was a life saver. What exactly did you find that you do not like with it?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Opacity Clip Slow

« on: 2019-03-28, 21:59:54 »

Basic configuration>texmap filtering dropdown, should be set to all but opacity.

Gotcha thanks, yeah was already set like you said. Must just be long render times I guess.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Opacity Clip Slow

« on: 2019-03-28, 20:16:51 »

Opacity is always will be slower than no opacity. Since you already enabled opacity clipping, there's not much you can do, appart from checking if opacity filtering is disabled in dev/debug settings (it should be off by default).

Thank you, I don't see opacity filtering? where do I find that? I enabled Dev mode in systems tab but cannot find it.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Opacity Clip Slow

« on: 2019-03-28, 19:29:38 »

material settings?

Thank you for the quick response, does material setting actually matter? cause this has only to do with Opacity clip vs no opacity.  So the same tree with geometry leaves renders 2x faster than adding Opacity clip mode to the same tree.  Is there a way to get the opacity to render faster, I thought clip mode would be as fast as geometry leaves.

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[Max] I need help! / Opacity Clip Slow

« on: 2019-03-28, 19:18:51 »

Hello,

We have an animation we are working on where we have a lot of vegetation. We are using Opacity maps for the trees and utilizing the clip option.  The problem is that it is still very slow to render.  With opacity with clip is 2X slower than turning off opacity.  Is there a better way or something that can be done?

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Hardware / Re: 1950x CPU Utilization only 52%

« on: 2019-03-27, 07:18:15 »

I think there is some adjustment?  On a x399 Taichi I can run a card in the slot closest to the cpu.

Thanks for the help.  It will not fit in my system.  Didn't even end up opening the box going to just return.  Instead I went AIO and seems to be running great.Below are the specs.

Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360mm
3 of Noctua NF-F12 iPPC 2000 PWM
Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Thermal Grease Paste

Full load with 3.8ghz OC is a steady 55C.

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Hardware / Re: 1950x CPU Utilization only 52%

« on: 2019-03-22, 16:37:41 »

I have the Noctua coming tomorrow, but damn now I think I may have made a big mistake. Seems that NH-U14S doesn't fit good on motherboards, I read that it renders the 1st PCI slot useless.  Anyone else running a Zenith Extreme with Noctua?

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Hardware / Re: 1950x CPU Utilization only 52%

« on: 2019-03-22, 06:51:13 »

Well it's a shame but there doesn't seem to be a AIO worth a crap for a 1950x so I'm going with:

NH-U14S TR4-SP3
2x NF-A14 industrialPPC-2000 PWM in push/pull
Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Thermal Grease

Thanks for the help danio1011

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Hardware / Re: 1950x CPU Utilization only 52%

« on: 2019-03-21, 16:40:40 »

It's an earlier version of the Liqtech that failed on my 1950x.  I'd never trust that brand again.  Noctua does an amazing job at cooling my overclocked CPU and is zero risk, which is always nice.

I was thinking about the noctua, I just hate how much space it takes up in the case and also I don't know if they could sustain such a high overclock.

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Hardware / Re: 1950x CPU Utilization only 52%

« on: 2019-03-21, 15:29:07 »

Forgot to post the Image.

I was going to order the Enermax LIQTECH TR4 II 360, what do you guys think? Is there a better AIO solution, I can't find one.

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Hardware / Re: 1950x CPU Utilization only 52%

« on: 2019-03-21, 04:48:41 »

Okay I think I have a throttling heat problem, I actually hope that is why my renders seem very long.  I attached a new picture running Ryzen Master Utility, it shows the 1950x getting to 86.63 degrees Celsius. That is at 3.8ghz and stays around 62% utilization at 2.36ghz.  I think Ryzen Master app overrides my Bios Overclock of 4 or 4.1ghz, can't remember what it's been a while.  So that is why it's not throttling as bad as before.  The idle temp is around 50C.  What do you guys think?

Since it seems to me that the AIO is no longer working right, it is like 3 years old. I'm thinking of buying a Enermax LIQTECH TR4 II 360 - ELC-LTTRTO360-TBP. It's supposedly there new version with new fluid that won't corrode, I've heard the horror stories.  What do you guys think?

I'm thinking of putting NF-F12 industrialPPC-2000 PWM Noctua fans on it for extra cooling.

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Hardware / Re: 1950x CPU Utilization only 52%

« on: 2019-03-21, 01:05:42 »

Thank you for the reply, I'm not sure I'm getting conflicting data from both apps.  But I do run at 99-100% on windows Task manager at 4ghz, then it starts dropping down to 50% at 2ghz.   But the HWMonitor shows different.  Not Sure about the temps either if I'm reading them right. Wonder if that Ryzen monitor would be better.  POsted another shot with more info.

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Hardware / 1950x CPU Utilization only 52%

« on: 2019-03-20, 22:10:46 »

Hi I noticed that my scenes I have been rendering have been rendering slower and slower for some reason,  I figured it was just that much more detail I was adding to the scene.  But then I checked my CPU usage and it says it's only running 52% at 1.97GHZ, I have a 1950x OC'ed to 4GHZ.  I attached temps from HWMonitor. Do you think My CPU is throttling or is it something else?

Windows 10
3dsmax 2018
Corona Nightly build - latest one.
1950x OC 4GHZ
Corsair Hydro Series H115i Extreme
64 GB Ram

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Rendering Slower with Sun / Sky vs HDRI

« on: 2019-03-19, 00:21:04 »

I always noticed I have to put the VFB into a pretty high negative exposure when using the sun. So then is it better to lower the Suns brightness? Will the realism still be there but just with better speed?