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Hi guys,
did some experiments to test caustics with Corona4 for 3ds max and got lots of fireflies. After many hours of rendering but on a relatively old machine - on an i7 -4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, AMD graphics... tried rendering these crazy comps on 4k resolution and on 2k in to see what happens. Even at under 2% noise the fireflies were still there.

I posted this here and on corona group on fb and Thomas M. Grimes gave me the idea to share the scene here for everybody to take a look or play with it and give some feedback or notice problems or whatever. quote: "If all else fails, you can post over on the forums and share the scene with us for devs and support to take a look " - so please find attached the maxfile (made in 2018 but saved in 2016) version and the HDRI is here - 08-08_Sunset_E

http://noemotionhdrs.net/hdrevening.html

Thanks!

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Grate workz!!! Congratz!!!!
« on: 2019-06-20, 13:45:35 »
I actually think you misunderstood the question. From what I understood, maru just wanted to know under which terms the scene and all assets inside it can be re-used. A fair concern in my opinion, especially for a free giveaway training scene that people can freely download and play with.
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Yes it was a fair question, it's just that I wasn't aware of all the implications, first time sharing smth for free

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Grate workz!!! Congratz!!!!
« on: 2019-06-20, 13:43:35 »
yeah, sharing free stuff is often thankless job. For example when I donate to free software I use, I often get surprised responses like "wow, somebody actually did it" :D. Since we cannot change how this works, the only other options are to either stop doing this, or game the system. Most free stuff shared online is part of some bigger plan, e.g. software developer trying to get more people to use their software, educators showing off their skills, artists building personal brands, etc.
If you just want to know that you are making a difference, I would recommend putting in something simple such as "If you play with the scene, I would *LOVE* to see what you create, my email is xyz".

I see your point, yes, I suppose it was a bit out of purpose. Thanks

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Grate workz!!! Congratz!!!!
« on: 2019-06-19, 18:05:15 »

can you show me where this happened or why you think this, so we can do something about this? We are against any discrimination, but I quickly scrolled through your posts and didnt find anything that indicated to posters that you were a woman, and in general they had what I would estimate as average amount of interaction for the forum... which is certainly less than most people would like, but as juraj pointed out, this is the trend for showing work on forums. The forum is primarily support tool for a renderer, and as such tends to be very technical.
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Hi Ondra,

thanks for your answer. No, sorry, it wasn't being fair to say that "because I'm a woman" I don't get attention, that was a stretch, I admit. I'm probably biased because of social media posts and the low percentage of women in this industry. But obviously it's nobody's fault here that this is happening, so I'm not blaming anybody. However...

there's a particular example I have in mind with a free a scene I posted recently out of genuine desire to help and share some of my experience with the community (being a test scene, an exercise and nothing original or creative). So I also posted this scene on evermotion forum and to be honest I have quite a similar amount of views but the major difference is that some people said: "thank you"... (it also got featured on the front page).
On the other hand, on this forum though nobody said absolutely anything like that, I had no replies apart from a reply from an administrator suspecting me of plagiarism. Of course, it's my fault because I should have been more specific with the credits and give the proper explanation of copyrights from the beginning.
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=24789.0

...also on this forum, I've noticed another free scene giveaway (a Cinema4D one) from a company or guy that has a large number of views: https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=22061.0

and at least one " thank you" so I was just wondering... is it better than mine? or am I just being a woman and nobody's gonna even pay attention to my work - so that's what crossed my mind. I tried to give you a full picture of what happened in my mind in order for you to understand why I said that, but please feel free to blame it on my frustration...

it wasn't anything specific or a specific reason for me to mention the gender. It's probably that his scene is more interesting and in more demand and mine not so much. It's very tricky to judge things like that but generally, higher rated thigs tend to have more popularity non-popular things are not as good, so that would be a very basic judgement and I might just have to deal with that.

Anyway thanks for your answer and hope for understanding

Cheers,
V












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LOL I'm really happy with Corona usually but this time I'm doing test and experiments and stuff so yes hell

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I had the same issues with caustics 3dsmax/corona4, same fireflies. I don't know if I should post my image here but it's the same issue basically, although my system is a bit old, I left this render going for 27 hours and it's just a test 2000/2500px), playing with particles and displacement.

thanks,
cheers

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Grate workz!!! Congratz!!!!
« on: 2019-06-18, 22:58:52 »
It's funny cause on evermotion forum I've seen a post exactly like this, a moderator exasperated about "nice "good work" and so on... lol
I think maybe you need to allow some more diversity on forums like these and not do the usual ignore/disregard people who are not necessarily very techy and have a very specific gender. These forums are geeky boys clubs and we all know guys are generally not very good at talking. (lol)

This profession - 3d artist, CG artist etc, doesn't require only technical skills but also some artistic skills, an art background or at least some art theory and history knowledge and a lot of common sense. You don't have to be a computer scientist anymore to use a computer these days. So, my point is that forums like these don't encourage people to comment because of this attitude of exclusivity - most of the people are probably frightened to say smth that may seem wrong or not technical enough or who knows, usually guys in this profession are introverts and they have no idea how to express themselves.

Personally, here I barely get any attention when I post. I'm not totally ignored but it seems to me that maybe because I'm a woman I don't get much attention or maybe my posts are not interesting enough... However, I'm going to continue to post because I just love this profession like my life and I'm not going to be discouraged by anybody's attitude.

I use Corona from about 2015 and I'm using it since but I think for this forum to be useful you need to have proper feedback indeed.

Thanks,
Cheers,
Valery

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Gallery / Re: STRAZH- POLAR STATIONS THAT WE TRUST
« on: 2019-05-28, 23:02:48 »
Thanks for your answer Dominic

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Gallery / Re: STRAZH- POLAR STATIONS THAT WE TRUST
« on: 2019-05-27, 13:44:47 »
Very nice, although I can't really tell from your video just how much you did in 3d and how much is photoshoped. Are the snow and all the other details (like people, vehicles) photoshop? thanks

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Gallery / Re: FREE exercise scene in 3ds max and Corona
« on: 2019-05-20, 18:04:42 »
this is the wire render

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Gallery / Re: FREE exercise scene in 3ds max and Corona
« on: 2019-05-20, 17:48:13 »
Hi Maru,

Thanks for your message. I modeled this scene entirely, all models and textures made by me, maps used only royalty free pics and a few from textures.com and some I created in photoshop.

Also forgot to mention the hdri from HDRIhaven:

https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?c=indoor&h=cayley_interior

Hope this answers your question.

Thanks!

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Hi guys,

I'm giving away for free a practice/exercise scene. Please find the scene at this thread:

https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=24789.0

Thanks,

Cheers

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Gallery / FREE exercise scene in 3ds max and Corona
« on: 2019-05-20, 15:01:12 »
Hi guys,

This is a practice/exercise scene I made after a reference photo I found on instagram and I'm posting it for free. I focused mostly on the lighting, used corona portals, corona sun, corona lights and light materials. Also focused on metal materials, used corona layered materials and AO maps as masks.

You can find the link to download here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u3bd3tzRvX0ZUWtXDP5SuCQ6o8Yxjxpa?usp=sharing

The folder contains the 3ds max file, the maps, the marvelous designer files, the reference pics and the final render and renders passes. If you have any questions please let me know.

Thanks,

Cheers





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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Practice scene
« on: 2019-05-18, 19:27:10 »
Thanks very much, Lucian

yes, I think this is the smallest scene I ever did :))

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Practice scene
« on: 2019-05-18, 17:53:19 »
of course, it could be improved, I'm sure the guys are working on it but maybe you should open a topic for these issues for the developers. Also maybe it matters if you're working in C4D or 3ds max?

Yes, I totally agree, I always want to focus on creativity and not on the technical problems. For this scene, for example, it took me a huge amount of time to create the metal materials, especially that I also used the interactive corona window and crushed every time I was trying to add more layers to the material and especially AO masks.
I'll share an update (very low res cause I'm still working on those metals)


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