Chaos Corona for 3ds Max > [Max] Feature Requests

Light mix, more than one LightMix element

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Monkeybrother:
I just yesterday had the chance to try out the LightMix feature in a real project and I think it's going to be a big part of my workflow.
I have one thought (and this might have been discussed on this forum before, if so, sorry about that); wouldn't it be logical and/or nice to be able to have several LightMix elements and each one contained a different set of settings? That way you could have an element with daylight and one with night, etc? I know you can do this manually by saving/loading settings, but we almost always render on our farm and only get the finished images saved out, no chance to edit anything manually once it's rendered. Or maybe I'm missing something, maybe this is already how it works?

Tanakov:
I like your forum name.

Well its not possible at this moment to create several LM, we asked for that already but as I remember it will require some standalone program.

About that have you tryed merging those in PS? I know its not that convinient, yet creating a macro in PS takes as much as 5min, and can create similar or same results.

Monkeybrother:
Hi. Yes, I noticed a thread in "feature requests" after I had posted. I haven't composited anything in PS this project, but since Corona is all about ease of use I thought this would be a good thing to have inside the VFB.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like something like this would be relatively easy to incorporate compared to a lot of other stuff in Corona?

zdragas:
What I do is I export all the layers as EXR, and then I combine them in AE, that way I can choose which lights (or light combinations) to keep in finals. Here is a sample animation where I use 15 Lightmix layers in AE to change the order of light switching after everything is rendered. First half shows the final render output from max, and second half is play from AE. Please disregard all the noise since this is just a test preview from work in progress.

ihabkal:

--- Quote from: zdragas on 2017-01-08, 22:28:58 ---What I do is I export all the layers as EXR, and then I combine them in AE, that way I can choose which lights (or light combinations) to keep in finals. Here is a sample animation where I use 15 Lightmix layers in AE to change the order of light switching after everything is rendered. First half shows the final render output from max, and second half is play from AE. Please disregard all the noise since this is just a test preview from work in progress.


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cools thanks for sharing, I was planning to do the same method for architectural animations :)

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