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General CG Discussion / Re: Anima actors get invisible after re-opening the scene

« on: 2025-07-01, 23:10:09 »

Hello there,

I know there is dedicated Anima forum but it looks completely silent. Any help would be appreciated as I am running out of time.

I use Anima drop to populate my scene with people. If I save that 3ds max scene file, close it and re-open it, the Anima actors are invisible both in viewport and render. I can find and select them through scene exploder but they keep invisible.

Anima must keep the background license authorization to use normally. We often log in to the anima license on another machine. When this machine restarts and opens the max file, the anima characters in it will be invalid.
I appreciate any help.

Christos

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Animation in Corona vs Vantage vs D5

« on: 2025-06-24, 11:30:03 »

D5 needs a good graphics card, and nowadays it's really difficult to buy 4090 or 5090 in the market

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: conrona13-coronaMtils2024.dlt failed to initialze properiy -not loading

« on: 2025-06-24, 11:25:07 »

Hello, I'm not sure if you're a Chinese user. I've encountered this issue with you before, and later I found out that it was caused by installing QQ Desktop (a program used to organize Windows desktops). This issue also involves 3dmax2026. This issue starts with corona12updata2. Opening this software 3dmax2026 on the computer will also cause an error. All versions of 3dMAX after installing corona12updata2 will run incorrectly, but uninstalling and installing corona12updata1 will work normally. The solution must be to reinstall the Windows system, and make sure not to install software such as QQ Desktop

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General CG Discussion / Re: Have you seen Unreal Engine 5.5?

« on: 2025-05-07, 10:01:48 »

Out of curiosity, have you tested Vantage as a way of getting GPU rendering speed, since conversion from a Corona scene is far easier than getting something over to and working in Unreal? (And then you have the best of both worlds, from one scene). Would be interested to hear thoughts from someone who is experienced with using UE.

We have previously used Vantage to confirm the camera path for animations with clients. However, the rendering speed of Vantage is not very fast. For a 1-minute camera path with a sampling count of 100, it takes 5-6 hours, using a 4090D graphics card. I feel that the speed of Vantage is similar to that of UE5's path tracing

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona 12 Update 2 Vantage Live Link

« on: 2025-05-07, 07:11:28 »

Can you open Vantage, goto menu bar > live link and start server and then try to do live link from Corona.

Let me know if this works.

Yes, it has been enabled, but it still prompts a link failure. Switching to VRay works normally

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona 12 Update 2 Vantage Live Link

« on: 2025-05-06, 06:29:43 »

is it happening every single time? If yes, can you help us reproduce the issue? Please start a ticket with us here: https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Yes, I have tried on two computers, each with Vantage 2.7.1 and Vantage 2.8. CORONA12updata2 installed, and both experienced connection failures, while updata1 worked without issues

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[Max] I need help! / corona12 updata2 Live link to Vantage failed

« on: 2025-05-03, 06:20:03 »

Corona12 updata2 real-time link failed. Updata1 is ok

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Problems Rendering Animation!

« on: 2025-04-25, 09:25:36 »

I have encountered a similar problem before. When rendering animations, some frames of the glass material may lose refraction or reflection, and when playing the sequence, it will flash. Later, the solution was to change all materials to physical materials, and mark the glass material as Thin shell (no inside)

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General CG Discussion / Re: Have you seen Unreal Engine 5.5?

« on: 2025-04-20, 09:51:51 »

We have been fully transitioning to UE5 for producing architectural animation since this year. Actually, I am not very fond of the production effects of UE5. UE5 does not have much optimization for architectural animation production, and many functions need to be explored by myself. For example, the PCG and brush of the tree planting plugin are difficult to use. We miss forests and chaos scatter very much. The production effect is also very strange, with many dark areas being dead black. Now occasionally using Corona feels particularly comfortable. However, the speed of UE5 is really fast. Based on the animation path feedback just sent by the customer, we estimate that we can send the sample to the customer for confirmation in one or two hours. This is difficult to achieve with an offline renderer (3Min animation)

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Animation - Glare and tonemapping error

« on: 2024-10-29, 06:43:10 »

I submitted an error report when Corona12 was first released regarding this issue. I'm not sure if it has been resolved yet, but the 12.1 problem still persists

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[Max] I need help! / Corona sky error

« on: 2024-10-29, 06:41:09 »

I tested three scenarios, test01 is to open Volume Effect and Cloud, and there will be a one size fits all effect above the distant skyline. Test02 opens the volume effect and closes Cloud, and the distant skyline is normal. Test03 is turning off the volume effect and turning on Cloud, and the distant skyline is normal. May I ask if the volume effect and Cloud cannot be used simultaneously?

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Converting CXR to EXR to use Cryptomatte discards Tonemapping

« on: 2024-10-18, 17:31:56 »

This is not a problem. It's the intended behavior. CXR has post processing / tone mapping information stored as metadata. If you rename it to EXR, that won't apply the post / tone mapping information.
Instead of reporting a problem, can you please explain what exactly you would like to accomplish?

Sorry, I just tested it and found that importing the mapped sequence directly into AE can work. The previous error was due to importing a Lightmix sequence，AE imported CXR, but the color is not consistent with Lightmix, it seems to have lost TONEMAPPING

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Converting CXR to EXR to use Cryptomatte discards Tonemapping

« on: 2024-10-18, 17:11:09 »

This is not a problem. It's the intended behavior. CXR has post processing / tone mapping information stored as metadata. If you rename it to EXR, that won't apply the post / tone mapping information.
Instead of reporting a problem, can you please explain what exactly you would like to accomplish?

Hello, I would like to use it in AE. AE cannot recognize CXR format. If we change it to EXR format, AE can recognize Cryptomatte, but it will discard Tonemapping

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Converting CXR to EXR to use Cryptomatte discards Tonemapping

« on: 2024-10-18, 10:27:28 »

May I ask if this issue has been resolved? I am currently using CORONA12 HF1 and have encountered the same problem as the author, Converting CXR to EXR to use Cryptomatte discards Tonemapping， I also use AE

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Pan Hand pointer (always) corona 12

« on: 2024-09-15, 11:54:15 »

Thanks for the replies, seems we are on the right track.

Can you please just try with a wired mouse to make absolutely sure this is wireless issues, and not something related to Corona-Max updates?

Is this problem due to wireless mouse? I am also a Logitech G903 wireless mouse, and Corona 12.1 version will also turn into a cursor hand