Daily builds version 2

[Ondra]

Hi,
is the scene using volumetrics? (homogeneous or heterogenous)

[Njen]

Nope, just lot's of glossy metal materials.

[Njen]

The build on the 1/25 is also as slow as the 31st.

[fdr44]

I can confirm the slowdown. Workstation B (Dual Xeon 2670) usualy 1.5-2 times faster than A (5820k) is now slower than B (0.75x of 5820k performance). Corona Daily 2018-02-05

Scene with Corona ShadowCatcher  backplane

EDIT: Sorry, There was a DRServer and backburner server on on the B workstation :/ That caused the problem.

[maru]

[pokoy]

Love it!

[davemahi]

While you guys are at it working with Phoenix Devs, maybe you could pass along that their Help docs and online tutorials are the worst I have ever seen. I always give Corona a tip of the hat for their precise tool tips and well structured tutorials :)

[GraceVicky]

hi, when i try to render the foam with phoenix fd appears this message and doesn't start to render.
i have installed the daily build 2018_02_05.
is this a bug?

[danio1011]

Probably a known issue or standard behavior, but I downgraded from the latest daily back to 1.7 hotfix 2 and none of my proxies created while using the latest daily rendered.  I had to re-export them and overwrite the old proxy using 1.7 HF2 to get them to render again.

[martinsik]

hi, when i try to render the foam with phoenix fd appears this message and doesn't start to render.
i have installed the daily build 2018_02_05.
is this a bug?

Hi, in order to properly run Corona with PhoenixFD you should install the newest PhoenixFD nightly build: https://nightlies.chaosgroup.com/#/
However, please note that we still don't support any Foam effects.

[Ondra]

Probably a known issue or standard behavior, but I downgraded from the latest daily back to 1.7 hotfix 2 and none of my proxies created while using the latest daily rendered.  I had to re-export them and overwrite the old proxy using 1.7 HF2 to get them to render again.

yes, proxies created in daily builds/v2 wont be backwards compatible to use in 1.7. Sorry about that, we had to evolve the format a bit to support stuff like hair and new memory efficient motion blur

[GraceVicky]

hi, when i try to render the foam with phoenix fd appears this message and doesn't start to render.
i have installed the daily build 2018_02_05.
is this a bug?

Hi, in order to properly run Corona with PhoenixFD you should install the newest PhoenixFD nightly build: https://nightlies.chaosgroup.com/#/
However, please note that we still don't support any Foam effects.

thank4s for the reply and the information..
Which of these versions should I install?
(the foam support is scheduled in the upcoming version of the daily or is not scheduled at all in the version 2 ? )

[cecofuli]

Probably a known issue or standard behavior, but I downgraded from the latest daily back to 1.7 hotfix 2 and none of my proxies created while using the latest daily rendered.  I had to re-export them and overwrite the old proxy using 1.7 HF2 to get them to render again.

yes, proxies created in daily builds/v2 wont be backwards compatible to use in 1.7. Sorry about that, we had to evolve the format a bit to support stuff like hair and new memory efficient motion blur

Mmm.. this is an horrible news.
In my "home made" .cbin library I have 600 proxy, scattered in hundreds of folders. What's the solution?
To re-save everything from scratch?

[romullus]

As far as i understand, your proxies, should work just fine with daily builds and V2, but if you'd resave them to newer format, they won't work with older builds anymore.

Although i think that some tool, that would allow batch convert proxies between different versions, would be highly appreciated.

[Ryuu]

Yes, romullus is right. Old proxies will load just fine in new versions.