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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 13 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: Today at 12:25:51 »

if this could all happen directly within the VFB rather than having to leave max and go to browser/cloud, that would be a huge benefit.

I second this. If it's standalone UI in cloud, I might as well keep using any 3rd party solution anyway since I only saved two clicks.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Issue with Corona AI Enhancer: Children’s Faces Turn into Adults

« on: 2025-06-18, 13:44:29 »

I think the promotional image got it right because the face expression was so obvious child-like.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 13 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2025-06-18, 13:38:50 »

I can quote Alex's really good suggestion of running internally downresed input so the user can have the primary image be native high-res and AI enhancement up-resed.

I still miss the internal AA down-resing from Corona Alpha :- )

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 13 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2025-06-16, 12:56:04 »

Even my smallest preview renders I send to my clients are 2560px, but usually I don't go lower than 3000px even for that.
2048px is just brutal limitation for 2025 I am afraid.

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Gallery / Re: Cornish Coast Superhome

« on: 2025-04-24, 11:12:33 »

Fantastic. I didn't know England could look like that :- ).

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Gallery / Re: The Geisel Library

« on: 2025-04-14, 11:21:03 »

Nice touch with sad Keanu! :- D Well fitting.

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[Max] Tutorials & Guides / Re: 3ds max + Corona + Windows = Finally good performance

« on: 2025-03-24, 14:31:29 »

It's just making sure it's more permanently disabled through Local Group Policy Editor (just type after hitting Start button), but it's not so bulletproof, I wasn't able to eradicate Copilot from Win11 by using this :- ) Windows have plenty of ways to override even group policy these days.
To disable Real-time protections through LGPE you also have to disable Anti-Tamper before in Security settings otherwise it will reset after restart.

I wouldn't say it's the smartest thing to do in this age, majority of performance will be recouped by exempting 3dsMax.exe from most Real-time protections.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Corona 12H1 Scaling issue

« on: 2025-03-17, 15:17:26 »

If the VFB 1.0 is fix though, then it isn't much of issue then. I had no idea I had to restart session for it to work.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Corona 12H1 Scaling issue

« on: 2025-03-17, 15:03:38 »

I am idiot, I meant to say 3dsMax 2023. I do mean to update eventually but I am slow moving vehicle as I hate installing all the plugins and scripts and setting everything up.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Corona 12H1 Scaling issue

« on: 2025-03-16, 19:34:38 »

Absolutely doesn't work on my laptop with external monitor. Both are 4K, one is set to 200perc, other 150perc. It looks wrong on both, but it follows the one that is set as primary monitor, so laptop's 200perc.

To correct it, the scale would need to accept 0.5, because right now at 1.0 it looks 200perc. zoomed.
Can't set to Corona VFB 1.0, doesn't do anything, shows 2.0 regardless of what I set.

Max 2024, Latest Corona public.

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General CG Discussion / Re: Chaos Group cannibalizing it's user base

« on: 2025-02-02, 19:31:29 »

If you had the "fortune" to meet ChaosGroup CEO like I did, you would be surprised how much he values crap like that Cylindo. He thought it was revolutionary.. and that was I think 2 years ago.

Agree with your assessment fully.

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen builds

« on: 2025-01-19, 17:52:14 »

Sure, relevant thread :- ).

But I think you answered your main question, 7950X is heavily discounted on market, and 9950X goes for slight premium right now. Real advantage is not 10-15perc, it's more like 5 in production environment.

- Don't get Torrent & AIO, it's really poor fit. Either get Torrent + Air Cooler (like NH-D16), AIO + any other case that fits 360+ mm radiator. Solid evergreen choice is Arctic Liquid Freezer, it's one of the cheapest but has the thickest radiator of all so very much the best performance as well.
- 4x 48GB (192GB ram) can be challenge to run solidly, I would check some Reddit builds for those get it running stable. 4x32GB is easier to get stable. Slightly higher-end motherboard helps in this regard, but the stability is bit of lottery based on each individual CPU chip (since the memory controller is responsible for this). But I would try 4x 48 if it's in your budget, you can always return it :- ). With 192GB, you might find the EXPO doesn't run stable, or doesn't boot at all, in that case run EXPO and manually lower frequency. It's not performance issue for production work, it can barely be felt in games. People online are hysteric when it comes to memory frequency.

- No motherboard recommendation. I were building Ryzen build right now, I would buy Micro-ATX board and some small case. (I would even build Mini-ITX with 2 DIMM slots only since 96GB can be plenty even for my work majority of times).

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Hardware / Re: Color space/mode

« on: 2024-12-26, 14:09:57 »

Im just reading a few threads on this topic at the moment trying to ascertain how to get consistent sRGB or AdobeRGB outputs from Corona now that colour management is a thing.
This seems to be the most recent thread discussing it and sorry to hijack it for a slightly different question. But If someone who has a better understanding than I could post some advice on what settings to use within colour management and then what to do within photoshop to ensure consistency between the VFB and the image im seeing in photoshop that would be great.

Juraj, i followed some steps from a post you made a few years ago which were very helpful thank you. But now colour management exists in max is there a better way to ensure consistency? Or does the missing profile assignment in the max save system still dictate that the below is the best way?

This is the comment i mentioned above.

Quote from: Juraj on 2021-03-05, 21:30:18

This is correct workflow for this monitor for 3dsMax/Corona.

1) Monitor OSD Menu: Select sRGB mode. Then adjust brightness to your liking. (Fun fact: Calibration is also done to exact brightness levels, but if you move it +/- 50perc. the difference in accuracy is not drastic).
2) Type Color management into taskbar in Windows, select your monitor, check "Use my settings" and select "sRGB" ICC profile. Set "Use as default".
3) When loading any rendering into Photoshop, you don't need to do anything if your settings are set to "Don't Ask". It will stay unmanaged and you only need to "Assign" sRGB profile at the end of export, for examply when saving to final file. Don't convert to any other profile.

The above workflow doesn't work for high-gamut displaying (DCI-P3, HDR workflow,etc..) or printing (AdobeRGB, LAB,etc.). But since 3dsMax & Corona are not color managed (Autodesk Maya and Vray for example are), this is the best scenario to use right now. Least headaches. Colors are always correct, you're just not using wide-gamut capability, which is ok since most devices are sRGB only, even today.

I didn't update to 3dsMax with OCIO yet. I am also confused by some of the answers Corona Team gave in relationship to Corona synergy with that OCIO config (they never gave exact answer and my feeling is the answers are almost always partially incorrect).
Until then, can't really answer much.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Tonemapping Order/Behaviour

« on: 2024-12-17, 13:17:31 »

No, I am pretty sure he just wants saturation to work like saturation does everywhere else :- ) Just compare what saturation levels do in Photoshop, Lightroom, iPhone editor, etc.. etc. Corona Saturation causes nuclear colors the moment the value is at "0.02" (which I presume would be 100perc. more saturation in some other apps..)

There is also Vibrance, which is saturation on scale (i.e it saturates primarily low-saturated tones to avoid over-saturating the ones which are already close to peak).

HDR vs SDR(LDL) is something different than Linear/Non-linear. The first refers to values outside of (0-1) values, the second if value is linear or on (gamma 2.2 for example) curve.
The majority of operators don't actually read the previous data correctly, they either clamp them back to (0-1) or ignore values outside of that range, I can't know how it works internally, but I can clearly see the result. Ondra suggested once labeling them into groups.

But that discussion went nowhere already 5 years ago..

But the Saturation should be easy fix. The current one is completely bonkers.

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Off-Topic / Re: Clients and AI

« on: 2024-12-11, 00:34:01 »

Actually, they're one of my best clients.

speed things up and cut costs.

Well if that isn't the definition of amazing client than I don't know ;- )

Anyway, AI for this question can be replaced by any tool or technique, it's somewhat a red herring in my opinion.
The crux seems to be client unwilling to listen to authority, which should be you. It's communication and trust issue, everlasting problem in any relationship, business or otherwise.

I personally wouldn't want client telling me what and how to do, he came to me for that expertise. But if he would have more expertise than me, than I would be a poor fit.
Usually just one of those can apply at same time for given topic. It's up to you to decode whether your client is just micromanaging AI-hype obssesed dreamer, or whether you need to pick up the slack and integrate wider AI skillset (if that's what you want to).

But this seems to be an odd relationship. And I don't think AI is the issue.