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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Animation Test
« on: 2012-10-29, 10:06:40 »
Not bad as for 30s per frame.
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Off-Topic / Re: Corona Popularity - Introduce your self
« on: 2012-10-29, 00:16:01 »Started CG in 1999-2000 at last year of high school with caligari trueSpace and Bryce3D (!!), then switched to max 5 at university (Radiosity and Light Tracer, they were like science fiction to me). Since 2005 started using vray, then in 2007 switched to Mental Ray, then another time to Vray this year due to inefficient light solutions during my thesys project (lot of indirect illumination and particular light condition, in the future I will make some tests with Corona...).
I'm 23. I remember playing (literally!) with caligari truespace on a 166MHz pentium when I was in primary school. It was one of first 3d graphics apps I remember. Next ones were Bryce 5 (it was amazing), Poser, Max 5, some early versions of CAD (I'm not sure what it was but I remember makings lathes from splines and "baking" them as bitmaps). I'm proud to live in times where computer graphics achieved such progress.
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Off-Topic / Re: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
« on: 2012-10-29, 00:08:03 »
I just knew someone who created his very own rendering system and is able to add a new, fully functional feature in time of one night must be insane.
By the way, who created Corona logo we see on top of this page? Any story behind it?
By the way, who created Corona logo we see on top of this page? Any story behind it?
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Gallery / Re: Corona Rocher !
« on: 2012-10-27, 23:13:33 »What's with Corona users and rendering food, now I am hungry again ;).
It's probably because they spend whole day rendering and they forget to eat, so that's what their brains do to trick them.
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Gallery / Re: CloseUp
« on: 2012-10-27, 23:06:41 »
Yup, it is powerful, but vray's interface makes it hard for a new user to understand.
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Gallery / Re: CloseUp
« on: 2012-10-27, 22:42:52 »
Yeah, me too. Still more user-friendly than v-ray's DMC sampler settings.
But "deterministic Monte Carlo image sampler" sounds more badass. ;)
But "deterministic Monte Carlo image sampler" sounds more badass. ;)
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[Max] General Discussion / Stupid questions
« on: 2012-10-27, 22:40:24 »
(not sure if this belongs here or to "tutorials and guides")
I'd like to ask some questions that would clarify my vision of how Corona works. I think they might be obvious for those who have more theoretic knowledge about rendering systems, but I'd really like to know this. Maybe other forum users have similar questions so this thread might serve us as noob centre. And yeah, Keymaster, I promise some day I will read whole your Bachelor and Master Thesis. :]
1. When I use HD Cache only, rendered image comes out as a mix of random paint-like splotches all over the scene. I bet that's how it works, pretty much like Light Cache in vray, right? Averaged samples from a certain radius?
SO
What happens when I use Path Tracing + HD Cache? Does it use data collected from HD Cache to speed up path tracing? What's that green-coloured stuff shown in precalculations? Areas that are considered too important and will only use path tracing?
I'd also like to know how certain "thresholds" work. To make the GI calculations more precise and slower, should I lower some parameter, or make it higher. For example:
-Interpolation sensitivity (dir/pos/norm) - I bet making them HIGHER than default values will make HD Cache calculations more precise OR will force it to use Path Tracing in more areas (?).
-Glossy threshold - lowering it will make reflections use less HD Cache and more PT thus making them more precise?
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Oh, and one "bug" about the Corona Render Settings website ( http://corona-renderer.com/doc/ ). It's neat, but when I scroll down and want to read about some values that are listed at the bottom of the page, the popup frame doesn't fit on screen and I can't see lower part of it. Maybe it's a matter of my browser (Firefox) or screen resolution (1680x1050)?
I'd like to ask some questions that would clarify my vision of how Corona works. I think they might be obvious for those who have more theoretic knowledge about rendering systems, but I'd really like to know this. Maybe other forum users have similar questions so this thread might serve us as noob centre. And yeah, Keymaster, I promise some day I will read whole your Bachelor and Master Thesis. :]
1. When I use HD Cache only, rendered image comes out as a mix of random paint-like splotches all over the scene. I bet that's how it works, pretty much like Light Cache in vray, right? Averaged samples from a certain radius?
SO
What happens when I use Path Tracing + HD Cache? Does it use data collected from HD Cache to speed up path tracing? What's that green-coloured stuff shown in precalculations? Areas that are considered too important and will only use path tracing?
I'd also like to know how certain "thresholds" work. To make the GI calculations more precise and slower, should I lower some parameter, or make it higher. For example:
-Interpolation sensitivity (dir/pos/norm) - I bet making them HIGHER than default values will make HD Cache calculations more precise OR will force it to use Path Tracing in more areas (?).
-Glossy threshold - lowering it will make reflections use less HD Cache and more PT thus making them more precise?
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Oh, and one "bug" about the Corona Render Settings website ( http://corona-renderer.com/doc/ ). It's neat, but when I scroll down and want to read about some values that are listed at the bottom of the page, the popup frame doesn't fit on screen and I can't see lower part of it. Maybe it's a matter of my browser (Firefox) or screen resolution (1680x1050)?
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News / Re: Bidirectional path tracing added!
« on: 2012-10-27, 22:12:36 »
Does it have any disadvantages?
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Gallery / Re: Corona Rocher !
« on: 2012-10-27, 22:11:41 »
Great, photographic quality...
I think resetting Xform sometimes helps with procedural maps issues.
I think resetting Xform sometimes helps with procedural maps issues.
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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: A sun problem
« on: 2012-10-27, 12:39:57 »
Maybe use sky without sun?
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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Re: HDcache
« on: 2012-10-26, 23:24:05 »Well I haven't saved it.... I'll rebuild it to try and reproduce the situation, just give me a second..(one more thing, don't know if it's already listed but if I have opened a scene and I click new scene then in max2012 64bit corona legacy build alpha v3 default settings of corona gets screwed(values etc are non default and i have to quit and start max again to get corona to defaults)).For me, loading scanline as active renderer and then loading corona again without restarting whole max works just fine.