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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 9 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-10-05, 15:44:33 »

Hi all,

with the latest build I've noticed that sending a job to Backburner, when the server starts the job all the Tonemapping settings turn back to reset.
I tried more than once and this is happening always.

Thanks,

Dionysios -

Hey,

I did a quick test here and it seems to work fine for me. Can you provide some more information and reproduction steps?

Thanks,

Rowan

I am really sorry but I don't know what extra steps give to you this time.
The process is classic and simple, I do my color correction and Tone Mapping settings in Max, send to Backburner, a Server gets the job and the result is calculated with all the Tone Mapping settings reset.

:(

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 9 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-10-05, 12:53:59 »

Hi all,

with the latest build I've noticed that sending a job to Backburner, when the server starts the job all the Tonemapping settings turn back to reset.
I tried more than once and this is happening always.

Thanks,

Dionysios -

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 9 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-09-26, 13:45:20 »

Anyone else missing Chaos scatter?

It doesn't seem to install...

Have you found any solution to this? I've noticed that I miss it too.
Uninstall and install didn't helped!

Thanks -

This thread helped: https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=37057.msg203605#msg203605

The instructions were a tiny bit unclear (the link to the file is at the bottom of the post). But I got it working without too much hassle.

Good luck

Thanks! I'll try it too.

Take care!

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 9 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-09-26, 01:05:23 »

Anyone else missing Chaos scatter?

It doesn't seem to install...

Have you found any solution to this? I've noticed that I miss it too.
Uninstall and install didn't helped!

Thanks -

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 9 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-09-22, 21:38:33 »

Hi all!

I've installed the latest build "chaos-corona-9-3dsmax-daily-2022-09-20" and last night I crashes/malfunction with the CIE app.
I had 8 CXR files to elaborate, once calculated I've opened the first one, I did my editing, saved it in TIFF 16bit and each time I was choosing another CXR to open the app was crashing/closing without giving any error. I've tried more times and I was having the same behavior. The only solution was to close manually the CIE and open it again for each image.

This happened to my home's workstation which has Win11.
Here in the office where we still use Win10 everything is fine and it works normally...

What could it be???

Thanks,

Dionysios -

Hi,

Could you send me over a couple of the CXR files for evaluation? I couldn't reproduce this issue here. I will drop you a link to upload files to me via PM

Cheers,

Rowan

Thanks, I've sent you the files!

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Clouds playground!

« on: 2022-09-22, 16:17:48 »

I was about to ask for some parameter to adjust clouds contrast, but i see something similar has been already asked, so +1 from me.

+1 from me as well! :)

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 9 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-09-22, 10:39:03 »

Hi all!

I've installed the latest build "chaos-corona-9-3dsmax-daily-2022-09-20" and last night I crashes/malfunction with the CIE app.
I had 8 CXR files to elaborate, once calculated I've opened the first one, I did my editing, saved it in TIFF 16bit and each time I was choosing another CXR to open the app was crashing/closing without giving any error. I've tried more times and I was having the same behavior. The only solution was to close manually the CIE and open it again for each image.

This happened to my home's workstation which has Win11.
Here in the office where we still use Win10 everything is fine and it works normally...

What could it be???

Thanks,

Dionysios -

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 9 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-09-08, 15:24:28 »

First try with the new Clouds System. Great work. Thanks!

One thing I notived: It seems that Corona is calculating caustics, even when the sun is covered by clouds.
I guess this should not be the case.

Best,
Marcus

I see your sky still very bright from the sun, could it be that situation which creates those caustics in the second image?

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Clouds playground!

« on: 2022-09-03, 00:17:04 »

Looking nice! Did you adjust contrast significantly? Your clouds looks much more punchy than what i usually get.

I've noticed even with the ACES on, I get some "sad no contrasted" results on the sky. The cloud model is cool but as you wrote I need to add additional contrast to the image.
But from the other side, if I think about it, when I take a photo with my DSLR in RAW format, I need to work all the data in Lightroom. At this point I prefer keeping the ACES option on, not apply any LUT and do the work manually in Lightroom as always.

Just my thoughts...

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: New Cloud Simulation

« on: 2022-08-24, 17:05:20 »

Thanks for getting back and for your feedback.

I confirm, the Skylight map is used in 3ds Max's env slot.
I'll try out your suggestion and I am sure that it will get better, for now is a nice and cool start! 😎

Take care,

Dionysios -

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: New Cloud Simulation

« on: 2022-08-20, 00:38:12 »

I've seen some user's feedback under the general discussion and me as well I confirm as follows:

- Cloud systems is great and fantastic!
- The overall performance seems very good which is a positive thing.
- Sun is always in front of the clouds and not covered, only once it happened to see it behind.
- The clouds produces shadows but the area shadows of the sun are not affected, if I cover 100% the sky with clouds I still see the shadows of the sun on the ground, something is wrong here.
- IR for me as well is very very slow.

This is an early feature I guess so I am sure many things will be fixed. For now I am very happy and excited!

Thanks,

Dionysios -

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[Max] Daily Builds / New Cloud Simulation

« on: 2022-08-18, 20:06:26 »

Hi Corona team!

I am soooooo glad to see the clouds implemented in the engine.
I've tried the system and is so cool, it resolves a part of issues and problems when we need clouds in our renders. The solution for me was to use always an HDRI and that has it's beauty but also it's limitations. Anyway, as this is the first implementation, which are the limits now? For example, I saw that the clouds once activated they change the skylight's color but the sun's intensity and shadows are always the same, we can change them manually but is there any possibility that they will block correctly and naturally the sunlight?

Thanks so much for your efforts!

Dionysios -

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 9 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-08-18, 20:00:11 »

Wow! That's good to know!

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Gallery / Tisettanta - Soho Bed

« on: 2022-07-27, 22:22:38 »

Hi to all!

I would like to share with you a production I've finished recently for the Italian brand Tisettanta.

Model: Soho Bed

Software used:

Autodesk 3ds Max
Adobe Substance 3D Assets
Adobe Substance 3D Sampler
Adobe Lightroom

Thanks,

Dionysios -

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: LightMix + Skylight Volume Effect = Produces a strange black cut on the horizon.

« on: 2022-07-25, 15:10:41 »

Hey,

This is a current limitation of the Sky model volume effect.

We have it logged already. Right now we don't have any time frame on a fix for this.

Cheers,

Rowan

(Internal ID=CRMAX-706)

Thanks Rowan,

No problem for me at least as it is not such an important limitation.

Cheers!

Dionysios -