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3 features you want the most:

Tiles map
31 (6.7%)
Further imrpovements to Corona Image Editor
8 (1.7%)
Significantly faster DOF (Depth of Field) rendering
25 (5.4%)
Sketch/Toon/Stylized shader
29 (6.2%)
Dedicated CarPaint Shader
7 (1.5%)
Dedicated fabrics shader
27 (5.8%)
Lightmix extended to materials, textures, ...
27 (5.8%)
Interactive rendering in 3ds max viewport (with gizmos, object selection, manipulation, ...)
16 (3.4%)
Rendering memory usage improvements
16 (3.4%)
Speed of rendering improvements
42 (9%)
Speed of interactive rendering improvements specifically
31 (6.7%)
GPU/Hybrid rendering
88 (18.9%)
Stability improvements (bug fixes)
12 (2.6%)
Improvements to caustics
23 (4.9%)
Thin film/coating shader
5 (1.1%)
Parsing performance optimization (e.g. for animations)
40 (8.6%)
New and better frame buffer (docked and floating)
23 (4.9%)
Further improvements to Chaos Scatter
15 (3.2%)

Total Members Voted: 178

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2016-11-25, 13:27:16
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Ludvik Koutny

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btw: i am willing to reset and re-do this poll with better naming of features... can somebody suggest a complete list of what to include?


  • Advanced volumetrics (Clouds, PhoenixFD, FumeFX, etc...)
  • PBR Style material (Disney, Unreal Engine, etc..)
  • Material presets
  • Corona Scatter improvements
  • Skin Shader
  • Optimized hair rendering with dedicated hair shader
  • Production-ready caustics
  • Refraction/Reflection working with masking render elements (CMasking_Mask,CTexmap, etc...)
  • Render-time booleans (cut/slice objects)
  • Irradiance Cache/Map as primary GI
  • Dedicated CarPaint Shader
  • Dispersion (refractive abberation)

2016-11-25, 13:35:03
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Done, cast your votes!
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2016-11-25, 13:41:01
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Done :D
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2016-11-25, 14:48:54
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PBR Style material (Disney, Unreal Engine, etc..) -> PBR material for metalness workflow, that would be more clear IMHO.
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2016-11-25, 14:56:34
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(*) Advanced volumetrics (Clouds, PhoenixFD, FumeFX, etc...)
(*) Skin shader
(*) Optimized hair rendering with dedicated hair shader
(*) Production-ready caustics

Why? Because they are something that we havn't at all.

The other options are a improvement of something that we already have.

2016-11-25, 15:24:12
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PBR Style material (Disney, Unreal Engine, etc..) -> PBR material for metalness workflow, that would be more clear IMHO.

Not for beginners... If you are not experienced with the workflow, you may have not necessarily heard about metalness, but you may heard about some different shaders that Disney or Unreal Engine uses. It needs to be comprehensive for everyone.

2016-11-25, 15:35:14
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(*) Advanced volumetrics (Clouds, PhoenixFD, FumeFX, etc...)
(*) Skin shader
(*) Optimized hair rendering with dedicated hair shader
(*) Production-ready caustics

Why? Because they are something that we havn't at all.

The other options are a improvement of something that we already have.
Well this comes down again to the debate of "I WANT to use Corona" vs "I CAN use Corona". You are already sold on using Corona. But there are people who COULD use it, but dont because they see other renderers as being better. That is why just implementing every feature under the sun does not work - people certainly could use mental ray, since it has all features, but nobody wants to ;)
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2016-11-25, 18:18:26
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Yes, your point of view is good: better a few tool, but really good.
And, I can say: without VFX tools, hairs, skin, caustics, volumetric, a lot of artist will never use Corona.

In short : "we cannot have a drunk wife, with a full barrel"

2016-11-25, 19:03:25
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PBR Style material (Disney, Unreal Engine, etc..) -> PBR material for metalness workflow, that would be more clear IMHO.

Not for beginners... If you are not experienced with the workflow, you may have not necessarily heard about metalness, but you may heard about some different shaders that Disney or Unreal Engine uses. It needs to be comprehensive for everyone.

Quite contrary, i would never know about some disney PBR if not Juraj, but word "metalness" is baked almost in every texture that uses this workflow and that should immediately ring some bells even for complete dumbass like me. Anyway, i think i can understand every option in this list, so i won't argue anymore :]

BTW, curious what happened to out of core option? Is it out of picture now?
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2016-11-25, 20:25:43
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BTW would be really good to post link to here on FB (but sometime in prime time, not at Friday evening).

That way, lots of people get to know they can cast their votes again. So far only 19 people have voted, so not many probably know...

2016-11-26, 02:46:56
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a question, what are the advantages of "Irradiance Cache/Map as primary GI" than our current primary GI solver "Path Tracing"?

2016-11-26, 16:53:41
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It's like the  Irradiance Map in V-Ray: very fast is some situation.
For example , in interior projects with a few details and, especially, in fly-throught animations.
You can bake the GI every "n" frames and render these animations very fast!
Now, in Corona, we have to calculate GI every frame with the PT, even nothing changes =(  (only camera movement)

2016-11-27, 14:45:09
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PBR Style material (Disney, Unreal Engine, etc..) -> PBR material for metalness workflow, that would be more clear IMHO.

Not for beginners... If you are not experienced with the workflow, you may have not necessarily heard about metalness, but you may heard about some different shaders that Disney or Unreal Engine uses. It needs to be comprehensive for everyone.

Quite contrary, i would never know about some disney PBR if not Juraj, but word "metalness" is baked almost in every texture that uses this workflow and that should immediately ring some bells even for complete dumbass like me. Anyway, i think i can understand every option in this list, so i won't argue anymore :]

BTW, curious what happened to out of core option? Is it out of picture now?

I've heard about Disney PBR and metalness workflow but I never knew that they're the same lol

2016-11-27, 15:27:29
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Yes, I know the metalness workflow very well from working with Unity, but I don't know much about Disney materials - exept some words from Juraj.

With the new Corona PBR (v1,5 +), I don't see the metalness workflow as an urgent need. A way to transfer Corona mats - or at least the bitmaps - to other engines (as i.e. Unity) seems much more urgent.

Keep it up :)

2016-11-28, 03:24:07
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So there is a software called Motiva for vray it has some cool post production tools you should check it and see if you can add some of its sweet little tools to corona....maybe all of them.....or at least changing the color and texture of objects after rendering that would be very cool and useful for a lot of users I guess....or maybe just for me.....And maybe some post DOF tool based on zdepth or maybe on point pos pass .Yap and that is it for now....
thanks keep it up