Daily Builds 1.7

[sevecek]

Here what I have found in RC6. Some corona camera bug. To recreate follow this sequence:
1)Create corona camera
2)Set it type to "Spherical 360"
3)Copy this camera
4)Change the type of the new camera to "Perspective"
5)Hit "render" (no matter interactive or no)
You should get black image & CPU loaded 100%.

Hm, I cannot reproduce this issue. Could you share a scene where it happens?

[crnexperiencce]

The scene is here: https://fex.net/#!896990525396
And one more notice: MAX 2014

[ArchSpideR]

During interactive rendering, the values can be changed via the keyboard only if the mouse cursor is in the frame of the framebuffer

[Jens]

a 6000px image took 8-9min of parsing time on my Dual Xeon render node and is only rendering with around 3mil ray/s actual. This scene only took a couple of mins to parse and is rendering with over 6mil rays on my single Xeon workstation. So I still think something is off when it comes to performance on dual xeons.

Running 1.7RC6 on max 2016.

Follow up after trying the RC7 Build:

Parsing is better, but still performance is way worse than I remember the performance of the first 1.7builds.

Image being rendered is 6000x4000px.

Render node is a dual Xeon E5-2670:
Parsing 4min (down from 8-9min, so that is atleast something).
Actualy ray/s: hovering just below 2mill (so worse than prev build I guess?)

Workstation is a single Xeon E5-2696:
Parsing = 9sec(might have remembered the RC6 stats wrong last time, so screenshots now)
Actual ray/s: around 6.2-6.5mil (sorry I had stopped the render when taking the screenshot on this one).

[romullus]

Build RC7
IR reaction to materials strange is rather odd, most of the times i have to reassign materials on objects just for interactive could see that there's some changes in materials.

Not able to repeat.

[ArchSpideR]

Settings in the VFB (Exposure / Compression Highlight and etc.) - affect the RenderID mask
So it should be?

[crnexperiencce]

Two fellows reported the same thing with baking vfb settings into channels (RC 7 and even 1.6.3).

[Ludvik Koutny]

Build RC7
IR reaction to materials strange is rather odd, most of the times i have to reassign materials on objects just for interactive could see that there's some changes in materials.

Did you report it on mantis?

[romullus]

Not yet, i'll try to see if it's replicable.I'm not sure if it's not side effect of Corona camera bug which i found in that same scene few moments later.

Edit: probably it was just some random fluke, everything seems to work fine now.

[Sleax]

I have another problem (dont know if it Corona problem)  3ds Max 2017 crashes after an hour or two rendering 7k picture (RC6, big exterior scene with motion blur and scatters). I'm not sure but looks like this happends after I'm saving renders.
Will test RC7 today.

If it crashes again, please save the generated minidump and send it to us for debugging.

Hello!
So i did some render tests with my current working scene (quite big exterior scene with scatters and motion blur, 7k image, RC7, dual 2696V3) and here is statstic on my attempts
1. After about 3 hours 3ds Max 2017 crash
2. Second try - crash in about same time
3. I try to render this scene in 3ds Max 2016 - crash in same 3 hours
4. Render this scene with Corona 1.6.3 - 9 hours render without crash
5. Another 8 hour render with 1.6.3 - no problems
6. Last try to render with RC7 - crash after 3 hours, but luckly I managed to take some screens of 3dsMaxs behavior while crash - it was frozen and was showing slideshow with desapiring windows. Maybe it can help some how https://monosnap.com/file/8pyUUfOTOfAfKSv4j9tzvEk36ABafe

Also i did render another scene for test with RC7 - 8 hours no problem. So it happends not with every scenes.
Uploaded minidumps from 3ds Max 2016 and 2017 (Minidumps_Sleax.ZIP)

[octavtirziu]

This happened in all versions of corona, not sure it's a bug but it's sometimes annoying.

During interractive rendering if I hide geomtry (shift+g) to select something and then I unhide it, it remains hidden until I restart interractive. Same behaviour if I hide/unhide lights.

[sprayer]

Sleax Do not know about corona, but with running screen capturing programs like teamview or skype, many software not works properly. Try to render then teamview is off

[Sleax]

Sleax Do not know about corona, but with running screen capturing programs like teamview or skype, many software not works properly. Try to render then teamview is off

I had no problem using teamviewer earlier, also i had succes renderings with Corona 1.6.3 version (was checking procces with teamviewer while rendering several times). Oh and i'm using teamv from my phone, so it aumaticaly disconects after i close app.

[octavtirziu]

And my first crash with 1.7 rc6.  when having multiple render regions

[crnexperiencce]

One of the users in rusian forum described his case with distributed render:
In distributed render RC7 saves file for transfering to rendernode to this folder AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2016 - 64bit\ENU\en-US\plugcfg\corona and then "forgets" to delete them.
This was figured out when an error appeared, something like "couldn't save file for transfer"
Disk C: was full and tons of files were collected in that folder.

I personally don't have an ability to replicate. Maybe somebody...