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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: AI image enhancer

« on: 2025-06-19, 14:20:14 »

You are using the new button in the top of the VFB to upload the image for enhancement (and not the Collaboration tab in the VFB, which is for regular images and pano tours etc)? Unless you use that button to send it to the Cloud for enhancement, it won't be uploaded as an EXR and so won't be able to have enhancement run on it once in the Cloud (the Collaboration tab uploads send it as a PNG).

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: AI enhancer and interactive virtual tours

« on: 2025-06-19, 14:18:10 »

Well, surprised either is considered pano, as the auto recognition of pano is a 2:1 aspect ratio. You can just manually change it to pano by editing the settings for the image in Chaos Cloud, though, and that should work.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: AI enhancer and interactive virtual tours

« on: 2025-06-18, 21:40:37 »

Is it trimming the image dimensions? What is the width and height sent to the Enhancer, and what is the width and height you get back? Or do you mean it is no longer 360 in some other way?

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: AI Ehancer and Interactive LightMix

« on: 2025-06-18, 18:18:48 »

The only way to do this for now that I can think of would be to bake the lightmix to the scene and render, so that the Beauty gives the same result as the LightMix used to.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Chaos Cloud for Corona

« on: 2025-06-18, 13:52:25 »

You're welcome!

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Can I generate 360 panos from Vantage with Corona C4D file, and share on Cloud?

« on: 2025-06-18, 13:52:00 »

Correct, credits are only used for Cloud Rendering, which Corona does not support. Other than that, the Cloud features  (Collaboration, Virtual Tours, AI Image Enhancer) are free.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona 13 + Vantage Animation

« on: 2025-06-18, 13:50:31 »

PS - this apparently works in C4D already, but not in Max :)

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

« on: 2025-06-18, 13:49:37 »

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 :- )

Oh the internal AA down resing, that was before my time - is it at all similar to what is shown in this recent video?

(basically, render to 2x resolution, then downscale to final image size). This is an idea I am considering putting on the cards for development, basically skipping the Photoshop step of downsizing, so am interested to hear thoughts.

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

« on: 2025-06-18, 13:47:08 »

Or just focus on the ideas with the most votes?
I know that the ai effort is Chaos-wide, but there are many other things on the list and these features are very much replaceable with other existing and better products out there.
I don't mean to tell you how to do your product. This is just my two cents.

Just a note on this that no-one on the Corona team spends any dev time at all on the AI itself. All we do is the UI and hooks to get an image sent up to Chaos Cloud (well, and created a very easy new render element, which is basically just three other render elements combined). So you are seeing a feature that is as close to "free" as it gets in terms of development time, so much so that not adding it wouldn't make any sense :)

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

« on: 2025-06-18, 13:44:50 »

That's the kind of thing that is planned for the extended controls later this year. Meantime, it's always worth adding things to the AI Ideas Portal at https://chaosai.ideas.aha.io/ where you could share your examples as the motivation on why such a feature would be useful (or vote and add a comment if such a request is already on there). Thanks!

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: AI Ehancer and Interactive LightMix

« on: 2025-06-17, 20:28:41 »

Has to be EXR as it has to have the extra data contained in the render element.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona 13 + Vantage Animation

« on: 2025-06-17, 17:10:08 »

Ah ok, so this is about starting Live Link separately to set things up, then moving on to hit the render animation. That is not currently supported, though we have had this noted to us before so it's on our radar. Thanks for the additional explanation!

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

« on: 2025-06-17, 15:48:35 »

BTW we didn't set the resolution limitations, those were already there in the AI Enhancer :) And we (V-Ray included) raised the fact that for our users, higher resolutions as input and output would be required. So it is on the cards to have this improved. Tests were done on using a 4K input, downscaling to 2K, running the enhancement, then reupscaling to 4K, and in fact the enhancement results are better in this instance than starting with a 2K input. So we will see some sort of change to this over time, probably incrementally.

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

« on: 2025-06-17, 13:59:06 »

Just a reminder that 2K is the max input resolution, which results in a 4K final image that you would deliver to your client. This will be reviewed as time goes on, but I did do a check on Behance, the Gallery here, etc. and most images were 4K or under so it seemed like a reasonable starting point :)

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona 13 + Vantage Animation

« on: 2025-06-17, 13:56:23 »

Hmm last I checked this was the same as V-Ray, can you let us know what is different there? https://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Render+Animation+with+Chaos+Vantage