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[Max] I need help! / (SOLVED) Viewport - Camera - Render problem display. Render settings

« on: 2020-02-03, 14:45:10 »

Hi.
Before it was good. Normally - when I configure the Corona camera settings - and hit render it renders the view from the camera.
Now it doesn't want to do that - it renders view from the perspective. There is actually no difference between Corona or even Physical camera created from the perspective view. I've tried to change the settings in both Corona and physical cams, but nothing happens in the viewport as it used to happen before when I would edit the cam settings.
Is this related to Corona or a bug on 3Ds Max?

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Work in Progress/Tests / Need advice from experienced people how to make render better

« on: 2020-01-25, 02:09:57 »

Hi. I'll try to be more specific as I can cause I think that's the best way for you to help me.

This is a part of the project, just 1/5 of it. Archviz personal. Although I don't know what Archviz rules are.

Ok, aside from materials design - what is missing here (I mean on shadows, refractions (lighting) and all that stuff that are under object properties or render settings.
It rendered for 6 hours and with more than 500 passes.

From my eye these things are not good:
1) I need to change carpet material and all other materials to be more in tune.
2) That light on top of the window object is concerning me?
3) The curtain is set to be translucent to white color, but I don't know why is this happening. If you search my previous topics - you'll see I have a lot of trouble with the curtain.
4) The geometry of the open shelf could be improved. And I will.
5)  The board for planning next to the window is looking very rough. I haven't applied bump cause I don't have a bump image to apply onto it, but I can assure you that in reality, those are the real dimensions of the wood pieces on the board. I could maybe just make the frame looking more original or something more?
6) The camera. Oh, the camera... I wanted this to be vertical, not horizontal. If you know what I mean I wanted the picture to have more height than being wide, but I do not know how to do it. Or you think this is ok position of the camera?)
E.g. I wanted narrower position: something like this: https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=26694.0
7) If you zoom the are below the desk table, you 'll see some white color on the edges. That is not supposed to be normal?
8) What do you think of the light coming of the "sliding doors" on the right side next to the sofa? I have a window in that part of the object (that is an opening to the bathroom, but it's not closed completely, cause - sliding doors) and is that light good or bad?
9) I have an interior light, but as you can see I haven't plugged it on. Actually, the room is very small, tiny apartment and that light is in the middle of the scene (not showed here), so should I insert light in this part of the project, too?
10) Generally speaking, Archviz projects are very clear and with lots of lighting, do they use some extra light tricks and tips that I am not aware of?
11)I have a portal, plane background, targeted sun, the sun is set to 1 and 1 intensity and size. I had problems with the curtain applying it's material onto the wall like a shadow. So when I put the blue curtain, I have blue shadows on the wall. And that's a big problem. Cause... I'll try to explain. The top ceiling is set to be white, but as you can see in the picture, it is not white definitely. Is that due to a lack of light inside or not? 
12) I ve set to many objects not to cast shadows or receive shadows because I have a feeling (connected with the problem 11) that many materials absorb the color of the other materials - and that's something that is of the main concern for me, among other problems.
*I had to delete ENU because of some problems, so I can't remember the rendering tools, but the highlight compression was set to be 9. Saturation maybe 0 or 0.1, Exposure probably 1 or 2. Contrast probably 0 or 1. I think I used denoising.


Finally, I hope I provide you with all the info so you can answer me. Again, be free to say whatever is not looking good and that could be improved, just have in mind that I'm doing a tiny apartment on the 15.5 square meters and 2,6m height, and it's really hard to design that all with my minimum performance computer for both 3Ds Max and Corona.  But, be free.
Thanks in advance.

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[Max] I need help! / Render problem - materials, sun - (solved)

« on: 2019-12-27, 21:05:50 »

Hi.
Newbie here, basic.
https://prnt.sc/qgkfz2
You can see the picture.
Corona sun is the default, targeted, and the target is in the interior.
There is Corona glass material on the window. Glass clear.

I can provide you with any info. Why is this happening, why I m getting so much light on the transparent Corona fabric material (fabric curtain) I applied to the curtain?
Thanks :)

Update: this is with the portal and it doesn't look it would change.
https://prnt.sc/qgla3x

Update2: now there is + a plane as background that does not emit light.
https://prnt.sc/qglgqu
It's still the same problem
Why is that succes rate so low?

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[Max] I need help! / 3Ds Max - Corona renders isolated objects only, endless displacement (SOLVED)

« on: 2019-12-24, 02:14:53 »

Hello, I've submitted a ticket already, but something changed.

Previously Corona 5 was working. And occasionally it started to have problems while rendering - the displacement would be endless and the black screen would appear. That applied to 20, 17, and 14 3Ds max version same file.
After that, I've reinstalled the Corona to the previous version 4. something. Same problem. Corona just did not want to work. I followed the official instructions on Corona website and added 3Ds max to FTH exclusion list. After that... it started working normally. But, the next day it reverted back to the previous state. I completely disabled FTH by setting value to 0 in Regedit. But, same story.
Now I can render isolated object (i've tried with one) with Corona, but I can't render the scene.
The errors I get when it comes to the scene are with missing some textures, some pictures. 3Ds max is very interface unfriendly when it comes to that cause I couldn't remove a texture, but just had to load another one. I did that and I stopped receiving that error.
I deleted ENU folder (restarted it, name it how you like), but nothing changed.

So you know that once I delete the ENU, 3Ds Max user settings reset. And that applies to configure user path where all the added materials in that way, paths are being deleted. That didn't help.
Now I have manually deleted the paths. And sucessfully render isolated object without material. I only got an error required asset files could not be located. That is connected with the objects and their materials (I don't know how, still learning).
Still it won't render a scene. Even small parts.
The error it display is that my memory is very low 4 GB RAM (yes, it's very low), but there are 40+ GB of virtual memory I allocated through my HDD. That error displayed earlier, but it worked. And now it displays, but it won't work.
I repeat, I was able to render a scene with materials in it in Corona, and now I can't render a scene without materials.
Is it maybe I overheated my PC or something like that cause now when I try to render a scene it freezes completely and I get some noises repeating from my monitor. 


I really don't know what to do and why the render is messing me up?
I appreciate any help or suggestions, really.
Regards