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[Max] I need help! / DR delaytime connection

« on: 2014-12-11, 05:39:06 »

Hi all,
my renderslave need long time about 15-30mnt to start the render command from mainPC, check the attachment. is that timing is normal? or there's something not right with my network.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / corona material isn't synchronized

« on: 2014-12-08, 04:29:11 »

dear dev. team,
there is a small ui problem in the corona render setting>environment tab.
when i clear the mat. button on a corona settings>environment, the material that's related to it in the material editor seems don't synchronized just like usual. in the normal case, 4 corner mark in the slot material should be disapear when there is no any object or feature assigned to it and vice versa.
it doesnt happened to general object in the viewport and in the maxs environment tab, others way it is corona environment tabs problem only.
i've tested with other renderer, vr & mr did it perfectly.
actually i got a little bit confused how to explain this out, pretty difficult for me which words is right to describe this case ..
check the attachments, hope you guys understand what i mean.

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General CG Discussion / (un)bias mode

« on: 2014-12-05, 10:22:21 »

hi all :)
there are many article that explain about biased & unbiased render mode. some article said (un)bias mode is like this & said like that.... i just don't get it for the deep comprehension.
personally i don't care about any method used by a render engine as long as it produced correct result just like in reality.
but i think it is a must to know, what is "bias" , "unbiased"??
and especially about two words offered by corona; "slightly unbiased" by default.. what is slightly unbiased?? how much difference with biased or it is named "hybrid" in other designation.
i know that it is a classic question, sorry.
i really appreciate for any response.

thanx

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[Max] General Discussion / did promote this magical renderer.

« on: 2014-12-01, 09:23:35 »

dear development team,
last week i promoted corona to a big furniture company & to some friends too.
they never tried corona before, but on the first try, they are so surprised... very very interesting with its performance & naturality.
they said it produce beautiful images even without post-production (they realy hate post-production).
here it is their feedback after few days trial: (perhaps you guys can help me to answer these questions)
- will you guys update the complete corona documentation when corona 1.0 released?
they mean complete documentation is not just render setting only. but new average users need the explanation about material settings and tutorial for usage too. vray did it perfectly in http://docs.chaosgroup.com/
- according to performance-debugging page, why corona looks afraid of complex blend material & opacity map for foliage? is this only a temporary limitation? if yes, will this be fixed on the v0.1 release?
- ies light in a glass case furniture is producing scary noise even rendertime took more than 10hours with default render settings? i advice him to increase the "light samples multiplier" or change the ies or change to bucket, but the result looks like has no much differences & gives no any acceptable quality. (furniture is similar like mine, check this)
- it has no glare feature. i answered, it's been requested by many users in the forum. will this be added on the v0.1 release?
- and the same question with this https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,5906.msg40524.html#msg40524.

i don't know why they don't want to join this forum, so they can ask or find many "problem&solution" as many as they like.
sorry guys, i know these are some complex questions. but i think it will looks weird too when i post many topics with my username in the same time. hope there is some help for this potential users


thanx

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / output autosave, warning sign.

« on: 2014-11-26, 03:34:09 »

dear all,
when i input the false file address, corona should be immediately warn me that the file address i entered is cannot be found when i hit the render button.
it is needed when some users unconsciously get their special autosave folder moved/deleted.
and it will help too because sometimes i need to work some scenes on my another computer / laptop.


thanx :-D

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / add camera name on autosave render feature

« on: 2014-11-21, 09:12:17 »

Dear all,
according to these threads https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,5902.msg40511.html#msg40511 & https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,253.0.html,
is it possible to include the camera name on autosave feature when autorename is enabled? maybe including filename,date,hour, & passes reached is pretty useful too.
autorename: "file name"-"camera name"-"passes reached"-"date,hour"
ex: if my main view is camera4, so the file's name is
"scene1-camera4-finish(14-11-21,15.30).exr"
"scene1-camera4-100passes(14-11-21,15.30).exr"
this is very useful too to do research for some development, right? or if we want a deeper research, we can add log file like vray did (but it is better to be disabled by default, cuz it's useless for normal users).

i think it would be an unique advantage for corona renderer, reminding there's no other renderer have this detail.

thanx! :-D

97

Gallery / kids photograph

« on: 2014-11-19, 04:29:23 »

done with amd fx-6300.. god damn slow machine!

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[Max] General Discussion / an idea for rendersetup.

« on: 2014-11-14, 03:32:45 »

dear all & Keymaster,
first, i searched in forum about this thing , but i didnt find any similar with it. so, i'm sorry if it was reported
here we go , i have an idea for rendersetup input system.
on rendersetup>corona settings>global camera settings>depth of field, if we uncheck the "enable", all the features inside are changed to be gray shaded and all the parameter are uneditable. it works correctly on "motionblur"
but on the "override scene camera/ cameraMod settings", "Distributed Rendering", "Output Autosave", "use photographic exposure", "Render Stamp", etc .. it doesn't happened when the "enabled" button checked / uncheked.
yesterday, i wanted to render some project and leave it run through along night till morning. i did input the filename/ adresses for autosave feature.. but damn unfortunately i forgot to checked the "enable autosave",
but the real disaster maker is: in the morning my mom came in to my bedroom and saw that my computer still running so she decided to turn off the computer by plug off the power cable (she never know how to use mouse and keyboard to shutdown the computer, eventhough i teach her thousands times ... she will never know).  AARRGHH!!
but anyway... it wouldnt be a problem, if the autosave is enabled.
maybe some users has passed this problem too.

thanx :-D


*correction: change the word "idea" to "suggestion" (for post title too)

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[Max] I need help! / Using Albeldo?

« on: 2014-11-07, 10:18:11 »

Dear all,
i need to create a furniture with two color (green & white). i got note that these color is a main theme of the collection
, so i have to seriously pay attention when setup the color on my scene.
Reference color from client, http://rgb.to/pantone/3272-c & http://rgb.to/pantone/uncoated/7527-u
How to input those value to diffuse color selector regarding corona performance debugging
, which explain that maximum value for white is 180,180,180..?
i know that whiteness value of the image i produced will be much affected by lighting setup & it wont look as same as the client has referenced.
but it is very important to keep the ratio value of white to green.


i hope you guys all understand to every detail of my explanation (cuz, my english is very bad).
thanx!

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[Max] General Discussion / Self-illumination and CoronaLightMtl

« on: 2014-10-29, 10:35:25 »

Dear all,
according to note on self-illumination material feature, it say "don't use this feature as the main light source in your scene, but use coronalightmtl instead".
what is the difference of Self-illumination feature with CoronaLightMtl?
on the creating photorealistic CGI case, when will we do need to use Self-illumination feature instead of CoronaLightMtl?

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[Max] I need help! / DR failed...

« on: 2014-10-29, 09:22:29 »

Dear all,
I'm using corona with distributed rendering as usual and have never had trouble before.
main PC: i5 4570, RAM4G, Radeon R200, win7 SP1, max14 SP5, corona A7.1
slave PC: i7 4770, RAM4G, Radeon R200, win7 SP1, max14 SP5, corona A7.1

few days ago, i add a new PC as a slave PC. the specs is i5 4570, RAM4G, Radeon R200,  win7 SP1, max14 SP5, corona A7.1
i install max, corona, just same like before.. then i add this new PC via search LAN and it is appeared on the main PC (slaves replying correctly). but when i hit render, the new slave is failed to work (older slave run without any problem).
i rechecked again and all PC has the same OS & max version/SP.
what is the problem?

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[Max] I need help! / need to create realistic glass, but how??

« on: 2014-09-27, 05:09:24 »

Dear all,
i want to create realistic glass like the pictures i attached (photo). how to setup the glass material with green color on the edge and clear on the surface? do i have to create multimaterial, clear for the surface & green for the edge..?? need advise please :-)

thanx!

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Gallery / Bond Coffee table - Product shot

« on: 2014-09-23, 06:33:21 »

1 of the furniture collection i've made.

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Work in Progress/Tests / DOF performance testing

« on: 2014-09-19, 06:45:55 »

what a great great performance with corona-renderer!