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

« on: 2022-07-21, 15:36:47 »

Hi guys,

just to check with you a strange behavior.

I have an empty scene, I create a Daylight system and I activate the Skylight Volume Effect let's say at value 2.0, after that I create a LightMix system and I hit render.

Everything is fine till I start playing with the Rest (unassigned) LightMix element which if I turn off it produces a black area under the horizon level or if I turn it down (values lower 2) it starts getting dark grey.

Is this behavior normal due to a kind of limit of the Volume Effect?

Thanks as always,

Dionysios -

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: corona-9-3dsmax-daily-2022-06-09 not available?

« on: 2022-06-27, 14:22:25 »

Thank you guys, in delay afterwards, I thought the same and I've installed the HF 1.

Thanks again,

Dionysios -

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[Max] Daily Builds / corona-9-3dsmax-daily-2022-06-09 not available?

« on: 2022-06-24, 23:23:40 »

Hi team!

I reformatted my home's workstation and tried to install again the latest "corona-9-3dsmax-daily-2022-06-09.exe".
Google Drives gives me the message that is not possible to download as the file is deleted.

Thanks in advance,

Dionysios -

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Displacement Bug - Objects with thickness

« on: 2022-06-22, 15:20:28 »

This is an intended behavior. Displacement is following the direction of averaged normals. I understand that the behavior that you would like to see would be displacement being always perpendicular to the surface, right? So for example if we create a box with just 6 faces (no additional subdivisions), each face would be displaced exactly in the direction of each of the faces' normals.

But if we do this, what would the corners of this box look like? :)

Thanks Maru and thanks to all the other people here as I wasn't aware of this change on Displacement.
At this point is easy to deal with, knowing how it works and specially we got rid of the corners problem! :)

Thanks again!

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Displacement Bug - Objects with thickness

« on: 2022-06-22, 11:17:20 »

It's easy to get caught and get annoyed by this behaviour, but when you think for a moment how displacement should act when it meets hard corners, it's not as easy to find a proper solution as one might think.

Well, know that I know, I prefer it like this knowing that the workaround is chamber or subdivide in the worst case.
Thanks for your support guys!

Hi George and thanks, actually that's another solution too!

Although it depends on what exactly you are trying to apply the decal on, an alternative would be to break surface vertices, in a case where your object is a box "wall" rather than just a plane, it will treat each polygon as a flat plane (granted no flat displacement is applied on the wall).

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Displacement Bug - Objects with thickness

« on: 2022-06-21, 14:17:07 »

It's easy to get caught and get annoyed by this behaviour, but when you think for a moment how displacement should act when it meets hard corners, it's not as easy to find a proper solution as one might think.

Well, know that I know, I prefer it like this knowing that the workaround is chamfer or subdivide in the worst case.
Thanks for your support guys!

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Displacement Bug - Objects with thickness

« on: 2022-06-21, 14:11:05 »

I think you already have been told how to fix it - just add support edges near the corners and between these edges all displacement will be perfectly perpendicular to the surface.

Ok, got it and thanks!
I was not aware of this change tell you the truth.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Displacement Bug - Objects with thickness

« on: 2022-06-21, 14:08:38 »

[..] but it shouldn't work like this...

It not always worked like this. It used to displace perfectly perpendicular to surface, but we had tears in geometry wherever there was hard edges. Needless to say, people weren't too ecstatic about this neither. It's a compromise and i think it's much better to have current solution, than to have to deal with tears.

I subdivided the box and the plug now is correct.
So you're saying is done on purpose to avoid the tearing results we were getting in the past?

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Displacement Bug - Objects with thickness

« on: 2022-06-21, 14:06:11 »

Look at the wall plug, is not perpendicular at all, it has a slight direction to the right!
This is a Corona Decal by the way.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Displacement Bug - Objects with thickness

« on: 2022-06-21, 13:57:16 »

Maybe that helps too, as there are more edges close to the borders the more you subdivide it.
But as you said it is not a solution cause you need to subdivide a lot, and still have some angles (small but noticable). Chamfer worked for me the best, just mind the corners not to have something huge displaced, like in your case balconies if I'm not wrong. It may seem weird results, but again I can not say how it should be and don't know how a better solution would be.

Yes it's true, chamfer helps but these are not solutions, are tips to deviate the problem! :)
You have a bounce of walls and you apply with Corona Decal a Substance material with a wall plug, you'll see this problem immediately. Chamfer each wall or subdivide it is something I am not very comfortable about it.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Displacement Bug - Objects with thickness

« on: 2022-06-21, 13:53:22 »

Maybe it's due to smoothing groups - what happens if you add a Smooth modifier on top of the Shell modifier and leave 'Autosmooth' unchecked to clear smoothing groups? Does it still render wrong?

I've tried and nothing happens, same result. It's not linked to the smoothing groups.
Thanks for helping! :)

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Displacement Bug - Objects with thickness

« on: 2022-06-21, 13:48:47 »

As far as I know it is how it's been working for a while now, saw this on another thread (sorry I did not find the link).
A workaround is to chamfer the edges of the volume and it fixes the angles. Can not say if it is possible to fix it as a default cause it is a problem on connecting the displaced corners maybe.
Anyway it was weird for me too when I first encountered as you can not distinguish on organic displacements, only on these regular patterns that need perpendicular displacement.
Hope this helps!

I also found a solution to apply a Subdivide modifier on the object, more you subdivide, more the result is perpendicular but it shouldn't work like this...
First time it happened to me some days ago on a terrain object where I had some small and tiny stones on it and I saw this strange behavior!

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Displacement Bug - Objects with thickness

« on: 2022-06-21, 12:29:19 »

Hello Corona team!

I found that using a Displacement map with quite high displacement values on objects with thickness (box for example), the direction of the displacement effect is not correct: It's not perpendicular on the surface but has an angle direction!
Same material applied on a Plane or a detached polygon WITHOUT thickness works correctly.

I've attached a test scene with a height map as well.

Guide to replicate the bug:

- Open the scene and use the included height map.
- Render and you'll notice the box on the left having the defect while the plane on the right is ok.
- Now select the plane and in the modifiers list TURN ON the Shell modifier.
- Render again and now the plane is incorrect as well!

Corona 9 last Daily Build but it happens on Corona 8 as well.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks,

Dionysios -
 

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Strange DR behavior

« on: 2022-06-21, 09:57:42 »

Hi,

No worries at all, I'm glad it is somehow resolved.

Let me know if the issue pops up again.

Rowan

Thank you Rowan.

Take care!

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Render 8 is Slower

« on: 2022-06-20, 14:39:02 »

There seems to be a major bug with Corona 8 and Forest Pro that makes Transforming Vertices & Parsing take forever, say 1 minute+ vs 5 seconds. This is using Forest Pro with Multi/Sub-Object node. Check to see if your scene contains that. If you remove the Multi/Sub-Object node you'll see how much faster Transforming Vertices & Parsing takes. Not sure if this is your issue but I hope there will be a fix for this because we had to convert to another renderer to render out our animation due to this big issue.

I had some insane parsing times 2 years ago due to the Forest Pro plugin and I wrote to them directly. The situation now is better but not perfect yet.
I hope too to see some improvements. Corona scatter for example is way faster so I don't understand why Forest keeps being so problematic.