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[C4D] Resolved Bugs / Sharpening/Blurring in C4D DB 5th Apr

« on: 2017-04-05, 20:59:35 »

- Adjusting the Blur radius does not update in the image, until something else is changed (e.g. adjust the Sharpen amount and the image will update, or enable / disable bloom and glare, and the image will update).

- Disabling Sharpening/Blurring with the checkbox does not actually disable the effect (and doesn't update any changes made to the Blur) - though adjusting something else, e.g. enabling / distabling Bloom and Glare, will then update whether the Sharpening/Blurring is enabled or disabled.

All tests above in the Corona VFB only.

Thanks!
   Tom

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[Max] General Discussion / Corona Image Editor for photography / older renders

« on: 2017-03-30, 15:27:37 »

While brilliant for denoising and using LightMix on Corona EXRs, don't forget that the CIE can also process any image saved to EXR - so older renders not saved to Corona EXR at the time, or even photography. While those don't have the info needed to use LightMix and Denoising, it does mean you can use the familiar Corona tone mapping, vignette, bloom & glare etc on any image once in EXR format. Attaching a couple of photographs where I used it in this way while the CIE was in internal testing, as possible inspiration for others to give it a go too. So much easier than loading up Photoshop to tweak things - will be awesome once curves are added to the CIE too!

And you can save and load your settings to configs, handy when you get an effect you like (and can load those into the regular Corona VFB, and vice versa, as well).

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General CG Discussion / Hum3D video game character contest launched

« on: 2017-03-21, 12:22:04 »

Hi all,

Hum3D have launched their latest challenge - create your favourite video game character for a chance at some great prizes, including Corona of course :)

https://hum3d.com/game-superstar

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General CG Discussion / Can't rename render elements (any renderer) Max 2017

« on: 2017-03-16, 13:32:55 »

Hey all, anyone else experiencing this? Max 2017 did some sort of "security update" last night for me, and I now find I can't rename render elements (for any render engine).

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General CG Discussion / 3D Allusions contest

« on: 2017-03-10, 18:50:30 »

3D Allusions is running a contest, 'The Butterfly Cabin' - this one we are sponsoring, so there's a chance to win Corona prizes :)

http://www.3dallusions.com/news/3590-tbc-challenge-18.html

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[C4D] General Discussion / Evermotion "Secret Garden" challenge winner

« on: 2017-02-07, 18:29:26 »

Congratulations to Leandro Oliveira from Slashcube on their win, using Corona for C4D! Also congratulations to Mark Selga Nesperos with the 2nd place using Corona for Max - and there are many more Corona renders in the results.

Looks like almost half of the winning images used Corona just going on where software was mentioned in the WIP threads - some don't say what they used, but 5 threads say Corona, and the 3rd place winner says "will probably use Corona" but didn't say if they did in the end :) If they did, then all 3 winners would have used Corona, and that would be 6 placed images out of 14.

http://www.evermotion.org/articles/show/10549/evermotion-challenge-2016-winners-announcement-

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[C4D] General Discussion / Corona for C4D A6 hotfix 1 released!

« on: 2017-02-01, 18:11:10 »

Corona for C4D A6 hotfix 1 released!

Primarily this fixes crashes of some other renderers when Corona for C4D is installed alongside them on macOS, plus should fix some reported UI issues such as "VFB can't be closed" and "VFB or Picture Viewer freeze" (mainly on macOS).

Download from the usual location! https://corona-renderer.com/download/

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[Max] General Discussion / Interview with Recent Spaces, part 1 out now

« on: 2017-01-26, 16:43:08 »

Hi all!

Last year we conducted some interviews with leaders in the architectural visualization industry, and today part 1 of the interview with Recent Spaces is out:

Thanks!
   Tom

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[C4D] General Discussion / Upcoming Maxon "Realistic Rendering" webinar

« on: 2017-01-20, 15:40:11 »

Maxon are running a webinar on Wed Jan 25th on "Realistic Rendering", presented by Dominik Dammelhart, and will cover using Corona for C4D. Full details and registration at:

https://www.maxon.net/en/news/maxon-news/article/free-webinar-in-january-realistic-rendering/

Thanks!
   Tom

160

Chaos Corona for Blender / Quick-start video guide to using Corona Standalone with Blender

« on: 2017-01-20, 15:38:01 »

Thanks to the excellent Blender to Corona exporter, it's easy to use the free Corona Standalone with Blender. Here's a video guide on how to get it set up and running (plus a quick test with a free scene from Chocofur):

Exporter (plus link to Corona Standalone): https://bitbucket.org/coronablender/render_corona/overview

Free scene from Chocofur:
http://store.chocofur.com/house-breukelen-3d-scene

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[Max] General Discussion / Last few seats for State of Art Academy's Corona ArchViz course

« on: 2017-01-13, 15:35:21 »

Hi all!

Just to let you know that there aren't many seats left for SOA's Corona Renderer for ArchViz course - this is the first course by instructors with Corona Academy certification, if you want to attend you can sign up here:
http://www.stateofartacademy.com/calendario/eng-corona-renderer-for-archviz/?lang=en

They also shared their look back on Corona in 2016 and a look at what is to come in 2017 at http://www.stateofartacademy.com/2017-release-corona-renderer-1-6/?lang=en

Thanks!
   Tom

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[Max] General Discussion / Merry Christmas Coronauts!

« on: 2016-12-21, 21:25:58 »

Thanks from whole Corona team to Coronauts everywhere for making 2016 such an awesome year! We wish you a wonderful holiday season and many happy renderings in 2017!

We'd also like to announce that our office will be closed from December 22nd until January 3rd - Corona support will be limited during this time.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Corona for C4D A6 (final) released!

« on: 2016-12-21, 20:32:59 »

Corona for C4D Alpha 6 is out! This is the final version of Alpha 6, with many new features (and bug fixes) compared to Alpha 5 - full details (and there are a lot!) are on the blog post:

https://corona-renderer.com/blog/corona-for-c4d-alpha-6-final-released/

And of course you can download it from the main Corona download page:
https://corona-renderer.com/download/

Thanks!
   Tom

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[C4D] General Discussion / Corona for C4D A6 RC6 released!

« on: 2016-12-19, 13:56:03 »

Download it from:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7g1HtV8lD7gMV92VEhxZjU4Szg

Changes from last version:
 - Fixed loading of Corona Camera (e. g. shutter speed was not loaded properly)
 - Fixed corrupted multipass images during render preview (happened when LWF was off)
 - Fixed VFB history on macOS
 - Fixed freezes of Corona VFB on macOS
 - Fixed render resuming (in Corona VFB)
 - Fixed problems with statistics in Corona VFB
 - Fixed crashes in Corona Bitmap
 - Fixed crop and placement in Corona Bitmap
 - Fixed global preferences for material preview
 - Fixed animation of materials
 - Fixed motion blur when rendering using Corona VFB
 - Added Corona Output shader

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[Max] Tutorials & Guides / Calling all Megascans + Corona experts

« on: 2016-12-15, 18:41:25 »

Hi all!

If anyone out there has a lot of familiarity using Corona with Megascans, and you have the time and resources to create a video tutorial, please contact me at grimes@corona-renderer.com as I'd be interested in having a chat about making such a tutorial :) Preferably it would be an arch-viz style scene with heavy use of Megascans, the aim being that the tutorial would be publicized both by us and Quixel. It would be aimed at being a good walkthrough for those new to Megascans and the process of importing those for rendering with Corona.

Thanks!
   Tom