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Gallery / Re: Snow & Sand – Visual Storytelling with Corona Renderer

« on: 2025-05-18, 20:48:29 »

😂

You clearly got chatGPT to write this... I'm guessing on your own post ... because no one else commented. 👍

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Gallery / Re: 森の鏡 | Echo of the Trees

« on: 2025-05-16, 12:20:45 »

Like many on this forum I see A LOT of renders...

These have to be the best renders I've ever seen.

Makes me want to quit my job and give up.

Well done. Congratulations! Keep up the good work.

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[Max] I need help! / Vibe coding with maxscript

« on: 2025-04-22, 21:08:59 »

I've been doing a lot of 'vibe coding' (AI coding with chatGPT) lately and had great success.

But I have to say it's not very good at maxscript.

Does anyone have good tips on how best to or which service is best suited for AI writing of maxscript code?

Many thanks!

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[Max] I need help! / Re: uv unwrap dilation

« on: 2025-04-16, 19:56:59 »

You didn't say where you are baking the maps, but assuming it's with Corona, then in 3ds Max this setting is called padding. Just be aware, that in Corona, unlike in any other render engine, more padding equals more render time, so it's not recommended to increase it much :]

Thanks

Yes, Corona... naturally!

Ah, I did see and play around with that padding setting in the bake t texture, but I must've glossed over the results.

Thanks again

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[Max] I need help! / uv unwrap dilation

« on: 2025-04-16, 18:51:05 »

As I'm doing a lot of unwrapping in 3dsmax with Corona lately...

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how to get dilation on the baked/unwrapped texture maps?

Just so we're clear, here is an example of what I want:



Thanks!

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Porting and API / Re: Corona Image Editor alternative?

« on: 2025-04-01, 15:03:49 »

Hi again Maru,

Just to follow up on this - I was able to build a pretty amazing online tool. Already shared it with clients to make their own lightMix.

It did take quite a lot longer than 15 mins, but I used your AI code as a base and spent about 1 full workday refining it exactly as I needed it.

One query; you mentioned 24-bit PNG export... I can't seem to do this from CIE? Is it possible?

I am noticing a bit of gamma related issues on some projects, so trying to debug that now.

Will happily share this cool once it's a bit more polished. I think this could be pretty useful for our little community :) Sharing a screenshot, but can't show much of the image for NDA reasons.

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Gallery / Re: Hélios

« on: 2025-03-31, 13:48:35 »

Agreed, that nice mixture of dark, sharp shadows but still having a shadow-side facade not too dark is something I alway chase and fail at.

Any tips on ow to re-create such an effect?

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Gallery / Re: Nature Living

« on: 2025-03-25, 11:02:41 »

I think the commenter was asking if the original artist used AI enhancements on the image

This is a fair question seeing as the images are soo... amazingly beautiful and realistic.

I suppose it probably does use AI enhancements, but it's very subtle and well done if so.

Nice images in any case!

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Porting and API / Re: Corona Image Editor alternative?

« on: 2025-03-22, 20:45:53 »

Wow Maru,

I will certainly test this out.

Non-ironically is funny - I gotta say I'm a HUGE fan of chatGPT/AI and coding. I've found it immensely helpful, it's absolutely insane what it has allowed me to build with very little tangible coding skills.

Thanks, I will test this out asap.

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General CG Discussion / Re: Anyone incorporating AI into the workflow..?

« on: 2025-03-20, 17:19:30 »

The course looks great. I haven't purchased yet as I don't have the time right now to get through it. (And I'm trying to step away from traditional rendering)

However, to answer the original question; I use AI every day. If it's not for plant + people + sky + fabric enhancements it's for concept design, brainstorming, texture creation, background image refinement, image feedback/criticism, plug-in scripting, troubleshooting. So, not just visual AI but text and code based too. I was anti-ai to begin with (still kinda am) but have found it to be an irreplaceable component of my daily workflow.

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Porting and API / Corona Image Editor alternative?

« on: 2025-03-20, 17:13:49 »

My understanding is that only users with Licences can use CIE?

Even if I'm incorrect, for someone to use a CXR file (in it's full capacity; light mix for example) it still requires non-corona users to install CIE, right?

I'm wondering if anyone has built either a web-app or simple CIE-light app that can allow a client of mine to play with my rendered light-mix?

If not, how difficult - with intermediate skills - do you think it'd be for me to build a web app to allow for light-mix capabilities similar to that in CIE?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Clean blue normal sky

« on: 2025-03-18, 17:49:56 »

I usually set elevation to 2000

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: CoronaPattern playground!

« on: 2025-03-10, 18:08:44 »

The above is definitely a bug, thanks for bringing it up.

I reproduced it and it is reported now.
The solution is to select an object which does not have CoronaPatternMod applied, and then select object with pattern. The select and move will work fine afterwards.

(Report ID=CMAX-1430)

Hi, another issue with CoronaPattern applied objects; it seems to mess with both snaps (they don't work correctly when a pattern is on the object) and also with Undo function. 3dsmax 2025.2, latest daily

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Chaos corona livense not found

« on: 2025-03-10, 18:02:08 »

Anyone else having the same licensing issues today with AnimaALL? Opened a ticket already but curious if coincidence or not. Anima's licensing is dreadful at the best of times but not being able to use it at all right now is a wonderful Morning surprise on top of Corona going down as well.

Alex, seems to be working for me - but as you correctly mentioned, the dreadful licence is so unpredictable and hard to manage that this doesn't mean much. So I can't say for sure that it is working 100%

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Chaos corona livense not found

« on: 2025-03-10, 13:51:27 »

Working for me now, Tom.