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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 8 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-04-04, 11:28:44 »

Obviously, Corona has a lot to offer and it surely gained a lot of steam by joining Chaos, yet from my subjective point of view - of someone that abandoned Vray years ago - it looks like Vray is slowly copying coronas features yet Corona is not doing the same vice versa.

I have to agree with Mike here. I too abandoned Vray years ago. Chaos bought Render Legion out of fear. Enscape too. I really don't like this way of doing business because it hampers progress. Those were my fears when the news came out and, from my point of view, they're slowly becoming more evident judging from the pace of new features. Cannot say I'm surprised. Chaos trying to monopolize the 3d rendering industry is just sad, IMHO.

Corona is still the best renderer for what I use it for, though.

Since we are moving towards Chaos this and that... can we also get ChaosFur into Corona? Will that work? When will it be implemented if ever?

Obviously, Corona has a lot to offer and it surely gained a lot of steam by joining Chaos, yet from my subjective point of view - of someone that abandoned Vray years ago - it looks like Vray is slowly copying coronas features yet Corona is not doing the same vice versa.

Best regards,
Mike

Sadly, I'm thinking opposite. I think Corona lost a lot of steam when joining Chaos, i'm following Corona from the beginning, and i know there is super talented devs in Corona, but man, with more money, more resources, more devs joining corona, help from chaos devs, i see only problems, version after version comes out not fully finished, bugs, missing release dates they set in Trello, before we had 2 versions per year, now 1 (anyway, i'm cool with this).
Cards listed on Corona Trello been first implemented in Vray then Corona, don't know if this was just timing, or Corona devs needs also to help with some stuff in Vray.
And on top of everything, I can't imagine Corona devs being able to release any version without this great community on this forum. They reporting all bugs, problems, and testing not-released software for free.
If anything, by now they should have caught up with Vray and have features that we missing from Vray and other engines.

I just hope that my post will not offend anyone, it's just my view on things. I'm still rocking Corona v7, and for what I use it I don't have any problems, except ram optimizations.

Hi Guys,

Please take these points somewhere else on the forums (general discussion for example).

This thread is ONLY to do with the v8 daily builds and issues found with them. These kinds of discussions here (whether valid or not) can cause issues reported to get lost in the noise.

Thanks,

Rowan.

My whole post was about the daily build, its partial review and questions regarding it.
I would appreciate it if you could give your opinion or acknowledge my post if possible. The Vray vs Corona part was 10%

Regards

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 8 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-04-02, 22:49:07 »

Hello,
can we get or is there an option to have a "save as default" preset? I find it inconvenient having to load or add items that I like experimenting with for my typical workflow.

Also, I would like to propose a "Corona Legacy Vdb" Preset that loads all the tools that people learned to enjoy over the years.
As someone who often gets asked questions about the software and how it works, I can already predict lots of questions on the topic as it needlessly complicates the procedure.

Yes, people will have to educate themselves on this topic, but I have never seen corona as a program that asks you to figure stuff out, especially since most of the people I know don't even follow the news on your website and surely do not on your youtube. Typically I notice some people install corona as they have seen a tutorial online that was created in C5, C6, or C7 and the UI didn't require you to solve a puzzle back then.

Since we are moving towards Chaos this and that... can we also get ChaosFur into Corona? Will that work? When will it be implemented if ever?

Obviously, Corona has a lot to offer and it surely gained a lot of steam by joining Chaos, yet from my subjective point of view - of someone that abandoned Vray years ago - it looks like Vray is slowly copying coronas features yet Corona is not doing the same vice versa.

Best regards,
Mike

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 8 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-03-29, 19:37:28 »

Hi guys!

Corona version: 8 (Release Candidate 2)

Why was "simple exposure" moved from camera controls? It's now one extra step to reach it via Edit Tone Mapping. Not good for usability. Why is Tone Mapping a separate dialog now?

Another thing I don't get is what's the purpose of the left arrow on Tone Mapping if that's the only menu to choose? To me, Tone Mapping shouldn't have any arrow on the left and the arrows on the right should all be on the left side.



But I'm all for integrating the tone mapping dialogue on-camera controls and not being a separate dialogue.

Then you would not be able to hide Tone Mapping, the arrows help you reduce the space taken on your screen by the menus. I think it's quite ok.

I would actually like an "open all" quick button let's say "shift-click the top triangle opens all submenus"
It is kind of annoying that you have open all of that but it makes sense as some will add more than 15 options just for exposure alone I asume.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 8 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-03-29, 16:53:34 »

Hello, Im not sure what this is connected to but RC2 vs RC1 renders looks a bit different.

Is this the Glow change? Or is that some other setting?

Please see the attached video, the last 85 frames were rendered using RC1.
Noise, especially on the plates, is vastly more noticeable https://we.tl/t-vxcwIiwMRa
The RC2 output has a noisy feeling same scene, with no other changes than a frame range.


It feels like RC2 vs RC1 is a downgrade in this case.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 8 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-03-19, 21:50:07 »

Hi, Im in the process of testing Corona daily RC 1.
- 0,0,0 Artefact appearing in Orthographic rendering in random moments
- Sometimes during batch render exposure randomly does not load
- Chaos Cosmos after you open it once, randomly pops back on the screen during interactive render after some autosaves

Opening a scene in max 2020 corona 7, saved from RC1 using 3ds Max 2022 creates a really long list of missing plugins. (well probably expected)

Can we get an option to scroll through LUT with the mouse wheel in Tone Mapping back? I kind of like it more than using arrows.

Hey,

Do you have a scene which you can send which displays the artefact?

Do you also have a sceene where the exposure doesn't load during batch render?

Cosmos should not pop up randomly, I will investigate this.

Opening scenes saved in v8 in v7 is not supported. And I'll log the issue with the LUT scrolling.

Thanks for the feedback.

Rowan

As soon as I have any of the bugs appear again I will pack my stuff and send it to you.
I was in the middle of a presentation and wasn't able to save those at the time.

As soon as it happens again I will send it to you.
Thank you

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 8 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2022-03-17, 00:27:34 »

Hi, Im in the process of testing Corona daily RC 1.
- 0,0,0 Artefact appearing in Orthographic rendering in random moments
- Sometimes during batch render exposure randomly does not load
- Chaos Cosmos after you open it once, randomly pops back on the screen during interactive render after some autosaves

Opening a scene in max 2020 corona 7, saved from RC1 using 3ds Max 2022 creates a really long list of missing plugins. (well probably expected)

Can we get an option to scroll through LUT with the mouse wheel in Tone Mapping back? I kind of like it more than using arrows.

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Gallery / Re: Winter Garden (Full CGI)

« on: 2022-02-19, 23:37:05 »

Dobra robota, brawo!

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General CG Discussion / 3D News and other technologies

« on: 2022-02-12, 17:57:48 »

Hello!
For over a year Im following all sorts of news found online about 3ds Max, new technologies in 3D or simulations and one thing isn't really clicking for me.

There are multiple papers published on very interesting topics and exciting solutions yet I rarely or never see them make their way into any of the products that I know of.

This is Adobe related technique so I guess Substance will have it soon, but please check out this:

Can anyone tell me what general route such technology has to take in order to be part of some products?

Also generally what YT channels do you guys follow related to 3D? What is your general source of news related to 3D if you use any...
Im really looking forward to having some conversations on this topic.

Regards
Mike

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Renderer 8 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2021-12-14, 14:14:24 »

Hello,
Is this anything worth investigating?

Im not sure if it is worth your time, but well that something right?

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona - Projection + Workaround

« on: 2021-12-14, 10:44:34 »

But it somewhat worked, now it does not work at all. Or I cant figure it out, anyway. That's a pickle, thank you!

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona - Projection + Workaround

« on: 2021-12-11, 11:10:08 »

Unless for some reason it is absolutely necessary to use Corona, i would suggest to look for other tools for texture projection. There are plenty of dedicated tools that does much better job at that, some of them are even free.

Aww... that sucks I was hoping I was doing something wrong. 😕

The render element normalmap should be removed from projection mapping since it does not work. I wanted two hours today figuring our what I was doing wrong.

Thank you for your answer Romullus

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona - Projection + Workaround

« on: 2021-12-11, 07:53:31 »

Hey,
projection does not work at all for normals at this moment, something changed and it got impossible to create projection normal maps.

Any other way to render to texture? I would love to get some assistance on this topic if possible.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: casutics solver is still crap

« on: 2021-09-04, 15:37:37 »

That's it - I am going to do it! I am going to become a coder, I used to know BASIC programming, how much harder can this be? And I am going to learn all about Light Transport and the physics and equations of it all! I am thinking by Corona 30 I should be ready to set to work on this caustics problem! Look out world... which reminds me, I can start with a "Hello world" program to get ready for it all!

It took corona to get to V7 about seven years, so tom are you sure you cant join the dev team before 2044?

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Is it possible to convert vray fur to corona fur?

« on: 2021-08-31, 19:48:55 »

Thank you! Cheers

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Is it possible to convert vray fur to corona fur?

« on: 2021-08-31, 01:55:15 »

And now?