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[Max] General Discussion / Can't cancel auto renewal? Now have to pay for another year?

« on: 2023-11-07, 21:08:01 »

Last year I canceled my corona license a day or two before expiry and took out a new one on black friday for the discount (as many people do).


This year I don’t need a license as I use my work machine for everything. But I can't cancel now and it's 20 days before expiray, so I will get charged for a whole new year for a product I won’t use??


Will this really happen? 😞😞😞 Any light shed on this will be really helpful.

Thanks

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[Max] Feature Requests / Corona Decal Request - Option to make layered materials appear over the top

« on: 2023-01-17, 23:16:46 »

Not sure if the title describes it well enough so I took some quick screenshots of basic example. Sorry if it's been asked already, I couldn't find anything in a search.

I have a achieved it....kinda, but it's impossible to retain the same mapping of the dirt because I can't throw a uvw on corona decal.

If I wanted to do a wall with graffiti, then dirt over the top, it would be awesome to have a tick box 'retain layered materials' or something.

Thanks!

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Hardware / Threadripper 5975wx VS 3990x

« on: 2023-01-08, 14:27:02 »

In the uk all companies which sell custom build, pre-built (they build if for you) threadripper pcs only sell the latest 5 series threadrippers now. I won't go into specifics of the build with all the other parts, but now I can only get a 5975wx build for the same price as what I used to be able to buy a 3990x build.

With this is mind the only way to still get a 3990x build for the same price is to buy the parts separately. This is ok, but not ideal so I am trying to figure out if its really worth it, or do I just get pcspecialist.co.uk for example to make me a 5975wx build with no fuss of having to do it myself.

This brings me to my main question: How much slower really is the 5975wx than the 3990x. This is very hard to gauge from corona benchmark because if we go by top result for both, then the 3990x is twice as fast nearly! As a side note the 5995wx is only about 1 second faster than a 3990x according to the top benchmarks; and it will cost about £2000 more. I understand people are doing all kinds of stuff to get these results and overclocking the absolute balls of their cpus, but what do I look at to get an accurate comparison?

If I do a search on google for 5975wx vs 3990x multicore I get various results averaging around the 3990x being about 1.15x faster (which is not huge anymore). Should I be looking at Cinibench multicore results for example?

It's a long shot but does anyone own both a 3990x and 5970x with similar hardware and able to give me a comparison. I have a 3990x already which gets about 17 seconds with corona benchmark with pretty standard water cooling, no other bells and whistles. If a 5975wx can only do 25 seconds I think I'll build a 3990x myself. I can get either cpu for about the same price.

Thanks! and please correct me if I'm wrong with any of the above.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Prevent proxies from displaying as flickering boxes in viewport animation

« on: 2021-12-04, 20:28:38 »

Animated proxies never used to do this, something changed? Max 2022? I can no longer do viewport previews of animations with animated cproxys, they just flicker as a box. This was very useful before to check how fast a tree was moving and generally see the whole animation of a scene before rendering it. I'm specifically referring to - Tools > Preview Grab Viewport >  Create Preview animation.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

Cheers.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Very first render upon opening a file is different to all subsequent renders

« on: 2021-06-15, 23:18:14 »

Hi everyone,

I Open the max file > Hit render (interactive or normal doesn't matter) > Image renders.

Stop render > Hit render again > image renders darker. Not overall exposure but looks different in general with certain things looking darker or more shadows being applied. One other thing I noticed is that a mirror in the scene is still reflecting the light version of an object which is now dark.

From here on it just renders like this, until I close the file, reopen and hit render for the first time only. It's largely an issue because I'm sending to Deadline. Once I send to deadline it reopens the file and therefore renders lighter again.

Unfortunately I can't share the file but wondered whether anyone has any ideas. It's very bizarre and I've never encounted anything like it in all my years of working with max+corona.

It's a simple interior scene
Only corona sun and sky plus a few internal corona lights
I'm a vanilla user, I don't change any render settings, have very simple setups.
No Xrefs
Corona 6 hotfix 1
max 2021

Any help is hugely appreciated.

Cheers

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Crashing/eternal hang when saving interactive render

« on: 2020-02-25, 11:07:42 »

About 1/10 times i go save an interactive render (while it's rendering) my whole max just hangs (blue spinning disc) forever. It never comes back. Happens on all files. Don't know why it happens only 1/10 times, seems to be random.

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Clear corona region(s) before rendering

« on: 2018-02-19, 13:27:09 »

Maybe I'm missing the way to do this, but the only way to clear the corona regions before rendering is to fire up an interactive and clear them. This is fine, but with heavier scenes sometimes you gotta wait 10+minutes for interactive to load which can be unpractical when you need to hit final render before you leave work or something. Would be super useful to have a clear all corona vfb regions inside the settings.

Thanks guys! :)

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[Max] I need help! / Corona converter to convert vray hair in 1.7?

« on: 2017-10-26, 13:00:03 »

Hey guys, I've noticed corona 1.7 now converts human alloy skin to corona which is awesome. But it doesn't convert the vray hair to corona hair.

Do you know if this will be implemented into the converter in the future?

Many thanks