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[Max] General Discussion / Trojan?

« on: 2023-11-06, 05:13:03 »

Hi Windows defender just came up with this trojan Corona mip map data file? Is this a false positive? Can anyone shed some light on this?

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[Max] General Discussion / Double side material rendering pale in scatters

« on: 2023-08-17, 03:41:39 »

Hi,
I have notice trees leaves with a double side material, front and back facing, sometimes render lighter. It happens when there is a lot of them, rendering the single tree lots fine, but scatter them and they go pale.
I'll try and grab some screens grabs next time, it happens.

Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / Parsing

« on: 2021-11-01, 02:35:29 »

I've noticed at the end of parsing the scene, corona render just stops rendering, but if I move the Render Setup window or the VFB, just give them a little giggle, it will start rendering.

Running:
Corona 7
Windows 10
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Processo 3.90 GHz
64.0 GB

I'm also running Parsec remote desktop.

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Off-Topic / Sandstone texture?

« on: 2021-03-22, 23:43:42 »

I'm looking for a smooth sandstone texture like the one below. I've looked through the regular textures sites and haven't found anything close.
http://www.grampianssandstone.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Grampians_Art_Gallery_1.jpg

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[Max] Feature Requests / Material converter Updates?

« on: 2021-03-22, 08:27:52 »

Just wondering if there are any plans to update the material converter to convert 3dsmax physical material to Corona, or Corona Physical?
These days I'm using Max2020 Max2021 I am getting a lot of models from other Apps that I import into MAX, there materials import with the 3dsmax Physical material.
I really miss being able to convert them, doing this manually sucks

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[Max] General Discussion / Corona Scatter

« on: 2020-09-02, 02:09:32 »

Is there a way to use clipping planes/ Camera planes to reduce scattering objects in the distance?
Something I am really missing from Forest Pro

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[Max] I need help! / [solved] Corona Color Picker

« on: 2019-11-27, 02:54:57 »

Hi,
When I try and set lower values with the corona colour picker something around a value of 15 or lower, the colour goes straight to zero.
Why does this happen? anyway that I can keep the value on 5 or 10?

cheers

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General CG Discussion / Populate Terrain script?

« on: 2019-11-06, 22:18:15 »

Hi
I use to use Populate Terrian script but since moving to 3dsmax 2019 its no longer works.
I did see someone on Scriptspot had access to the source code and recompiled it, but it doesn't work for me, I end up with syntax errors.
Is there an alternative to making dodgy meshes into nice size quads?

The scriptspot link
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/populate-terrain

Here's a link to what populate terrain does.
https://vwartclub.com/?section=learning&category=scripts&article=useful-scripts-populate-terrain

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[Max] General Discussion / Sini Scatter

« on: 2019-10-25, 05:29:46 »

Has anyone tried Sini Scatter? If so what are your thoughts? I'm looking for a forest pro alternative.

cheers

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[Scatter] I need help! / corona scatter

« on: 2019-10-23, 10:28:31 »

Can Corona scatter get color from surface? Like Forest pro does?
I find its the best way to create random lawns.

cheers

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General CG Discussion / scene management

« on: 2019-02-10, 04:26:22 »

Hi Guys, How do you manage different scene setups? Keeping it to the one file. For instance one shot I might have an interior sun lite scene, 2nd shot dusk artificial lighting, at the moment I'm writing down my settings and plug in the sun time of day and turning lights on and off for each shot. Its not to bad for one or two shots but anymore and it gets time-consuming.
Back in the day I use to use LPM manager, which I haven't used it in a long time. It could save the state of each shot.
Scene States I find to buggy and wouldn't remember things like the time of day.
Its important to keep it in one 3dsmax file as clients keep wanting to make changes to furniture, architecture, materials, etc..
Has any had any luck with Pulze? It looks like the kind of thing I am after, but I'm not fond of the rental model.

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Hardware / Intel and AMD

« on: 2019-02-10, 00:19:07 »

Hi Guys,
Just wondering what Intel CPU is equal to the Thread ripper 1920k ?
I'd like to get something that is close in rendering speed but better in single core operations.
I recently brought 1920k but the AMD doesn't seem to be as good with Maya as Intel is. Well for Animation at least.
It seems it crashes more than the intel machines the other animators are using.
Its a clean install latest drivers Nvidia 1080 GTX, 32GB Ram.

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Hardware / CPU for Maya Animation ?

« on: 2018-08-30, 23:56:46 »

Hi I'm upgrading my wife's PC, her main focus is animation in Maya, so I guess singled threaded performance is key here.
Is Intel still top dog when it comes to Ghz? Or are the Thread rippers up there these days? From what I've been reading the Thread Rippers have a good upgrade path.
I should be able to keep the motherboard for a couple of years and upgrade the CPU to something worthwhile.
What would you recommend?

Would my old Power Supply "Silverstone Strider Plus 750W ST75F-P" be enough to run one of these CPUs as well as a nvidia 1080 GPU ?


Intel Core i7 7700K Quad Core LGA 1151 4.2 GHz $488.0
Intel Core i7 8700K Six Core LGA 1151 3.7 GHz $520.0
Intel Core i7 7800X Six Core LGA 2066 3.5 GHz $539.0
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8-Core Socket AM4 3.7GHz $469.0
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 12-Core Socket TR4 3.5GHz $619.0

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[Max] Bug Reporting / v2 - glare does not work on the whole image

« on: 2018-06-26, 08:33:10 »

I've noticed the last couple of builds, Glare no longer works on the whole image when using render region.
Is there any option somewhere ?

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General CG Discussion / 3dsmax importing Reset Xform

« on: 2018-05-10, 03:26:30 »

Hi I'm importing and exported DAE file from Archicad, it comes in just the way I like it, the mesh is separated as it should be, textures, etc.
The problem is the transforms are out of wack for any additional modeling the values are out of wack. Inset 10mm is insetting 100mm or more. 
So first thought is use the Reset X form in the Utilities panel, but this doesn't work for this particular model.

I'm wonder if Reset Xform is broken in 3dsmax 2019