Daily Builds 1.7

[Flavius]

yes, getting rid of corona materials will work. Also do you have some materials animated? That could be the problem...

I don't think so, I have a 12 angles with an animated camera, and I might've forgotten the animate button on while doing other changes(maybe to materials) and not only camera ones. I will check, but if clearing the materials will work at least I have a way around.

[davemahi]

Have you set the Alpha mode in Advanced Options to "always white" in the diamond shader?

[ihabkal]

this is major did anyone else notice that int he compact materials editor the corona material map slots are out of control? you drag a map to a slot it shows up in a different one, and the bump slot doesn't even work at all?

[romullus]

What build this is? AFAIK Aug 14 build has some critical issues with Corona materials. Could be the case?

[Alex Darby]

There is definitely something not right. The 1.7 latest builds are not cleaning up the noise. At 2% noise there is still a lot of noise compared to 1.6 Hf 2.
Is this because of the implementation of adaptivity? I seem to be having this problem with a lot of scenes in latest build.
There also seems to be an issue with DR rendering and noise.
Attached is the difference between DR render vs a single machine. Both render to 2% noise with 0.4 Denoise.
There is a big difference between the two renders. Seems like the DR render is denoising.

[romullus]

I kinda can confirm this - it seems that in Aug 22 build denoising working inconcistently. I had one occasion where i have to rerender one shot for denoiser to be able properly do its job.

[Nekrobul]

Guys you are scaring me.

Will it be reasonable to make backup copies of scenes with obsolete DB just in case?

[ihabkal]

What build this is? AFAIK Aug 14 build has some critical issues with Corona materials. Could be the case?

latest build 22nd

[Ondra]

we will investigate the DR problems soon, stay tuned please

[lacilaci]

Will the next massive speedup(lightsampling) make it to 1.7?

[Ondra]

hopefully ;) we are about 1 week away from release in daily builds

[Alex Darby]

Think we have sorted the Backburner DR problem.
VrayHDRI loader was causing the problem.
Have been use VrayHDRI loader, which isn't a problem unless you have different vray versions running.
Completely forgot to check vray version on all slaves.
After updating each to same version seems to have fixed the problem.

[ihabkal]

Think we have sorted the Backburner DR problem.
VrayHDRI loader was causing the problem.
Have been use VrayHDRI loader, which isn't a problem unless you have different vray versions running.
Completely forgot to check vray version on all slaves.
After updating each to same version seems to have fixed the problem.

you need to remove all vray dependencies in your projects make it all corona streamline your process not to need vray, you never know when you won't have acess to vray. you might come back in a year to render and your vray will betray you.

[maru]

Using parts of Vray or any other renderer than Corona will (currently ;) ) sooner or later result in some unexpected troubles. For example, Vray HDRI is known to cause flickering in animations, even when using path tracing only. The features of Vray HDRI can be easily achieved using the standard/Corona bitmap loader.

[Bormax]

Using parts of Vray or any other renderer than Corona will (currently ;) ) sooner or later result in some unexpected troubles. For example, Vray HDRI is known to cause flickering in animations, even when using path tracing only. The features of Vray HDRI can be easily achieved using the standard/Corona bitmap loader.

Could you tell me, please, which parameter of standard/Corona bitmap loader do the same job as Inverse gamma parameter of Vray HDRI map?