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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 12 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: Today at 11:58:12 »

Great! Thanks for the info.

Sad that it is not yet available to test, i am very tempted to try it out =D

But anyway i will be glad to provide some feedback when it will be implemented to test builds.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 12 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: Today at 11:36:11 »

Woha that's been quet a while since i have been here.

But i am here for a reason, i saw on the road map future Chaos Vantage implementation, so the question is:

Does this current v12 daily build supports vantage or not and we have to wait a bit? If it does i will be able to test it out on insanely huge golf scenes.

Also question is if it will be implemented soon will it have any texture\material\feature limitations, for example such as corona pattern?

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 7 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2020-12-23, 16:03:42 »

Hey guys! Just tryed daily build from 2020-12-10 and found a strange looking bug.

Parsing time turns infinite when there is coronascatter from the previous version is present in the scene.

I will try to replicate same bug with the clean scene to see if the scene is the problem or it is replicatable.

PS - Max 2021 V2 Win10 Xeon 8176ES x2 64RAM

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2019-10-28, 18:56:17 »

I am encountering strage looking reflection artifacts on 5RC2 from reflection override.

Have you tried disabling the adaptive light solver? (Performance tab)

Will try.

UPD - it worked, need scene or it is a known issue?

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2019-10-28, 15:47:46 »

I am encountering strage looking reflection artifacts on 5RC2 from reflection override.

As a overide is placed HDRI with Native corona collor correction node.

HDRI - https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?c=nature&h=kiara_5_noon 16k version



Specs

8176 QL1F 2x 64ram W10 MAX 2017SP3

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Caustics playground!

« on: 2019-04-29, 13:08:22 »

Overall i think there is something wrong with calculation of number and randomisation of rays caused by caustics, when there is more than 1-2 lightsources and dificult reflective materials (bump, complex glossines etc) it freaks out and stays with the first raycast of caustics wich causes a lot of overbright fireflys wich are not removed by the denoiser nor intel nor native.

I will try to provide proving tests for my words in couple of days.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2019-04-16, 14:50:55 »

In latest build, Corona shows warning message about AI denoising and HQ filtering incompatibility, but despite that rendering is progressing without further explanation on what is going on, is it denoising is being ignored or filtering is reverted todefault. I think further explanation is needed in warning message.

As i understood, it works but gives wrong result.

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Gallery / Re: Glass-Liquid-Ice

« on: 2019-04-16, 10:31:03 »

Could be :) 

I mainly assumed based on color of the "Liquid" (oils and similar were instantly excluded, based on probability of getting these liquids served in such arrangement). While scotch, whisky, bourbon & maybe even rum aren't strong, pure enough (based on density, drink must have at least 86% of alcohol for ice to sink to bottom). Tea or coffee are mainly water. So the only argument left for me was, that those "Ice rocks" are basically made of glass. Then they would keep cold, wouldn't melt, would sink to bottom & have different IOR. Problem could easily be solved, if title weren't so descriptive. ;)
Yet still, there's so much detail missing to stop any speculative guessing... ;)

I have a solution =D

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Gallery / Exterior.

« on: 2019-04-16, 07:23:22 »

A fast project of a 2 story house placed on the coastline Latvia.

It resembles signature acheticture style of Jurmala.

Designer - Victoria Belaja
Architect - Janis Vizinjsh
CG - Blackbell

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Total time - two nights

PS - Criticism welcome.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2019-04-12, 13:10:18 »

I don't know if it is related to new build. But max freezes on saving render manualy on render end if bloom and glare is enabled.

Disabling bloom and glare debugs isue. Also there is no such problem if the batch render is used and and render saves automaticaly. Problem ocures only when saving from VFB.

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I have made ticket on that, and uploaded scene to replicate - 4 DB 5-4-2019 VFB Whitefreze MAX

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: High quality image filtering playground!

« on: 2019-04-12, 08:13:14 »

And you also should not render so clean images. Sure it's good to test how the new image filter contributes to final quality image, but it will be harder for human eye to spot the differences. I'd do one more test, again with the same amount of passes, but lower amount of them (let's say a half) so you can spot the differences better.

From the current test, it appears that the HQ image filter mainly helps to resolve very small highlights/glints.

I get what you are saying, but to me practically, the noise in both of these images (HQ and non-HQ) are the minimum amount of noise I'd be willing to accept in my renders. There isn't any reason for me to make comparisons with more noise/less passes, since I'd never use them any way. My tests are more practical for me to figure out if this feature would benefit me.

Maybe other people can focus more on the academic, less passes/more noise tests.

This yes, wanted to mention that too about the logic in testing on final quality renders. It is like we are aiming for final quality in the end right? So that is what we should be comparing.

Just was to sleepy yesterday.

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Gallery / Re: Glass-Liquid-Ice

« on: 2019-04-11, 23:06:17 »

Getting back to physics, May be it is not water in the glass, something with slightly less density like oil or alcohol.

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Gallery / Re: Fairy Tales - 'Crude World'

« on: 2019-04-11, 23:03:08 »

Great work, i wounder why it is not so noticed by comunity.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: High quality image filtering playground!

« on: 2019-04-11, 22:57:37 »

I will get back to the testing on weekend. I just have cuple of *real life* scenes with a lot of complications on dof and highlights.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Decrease in performance

« on: 2019-04-07, 13:12:38 »

is this still applyable in the latest version? I dont' see the option

You can do it manualy in Taskmanager.