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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%)

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2018-04-17, 13:23:51
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Ondra

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Just a sidenote, just to display albedo, we would need at least 4, but probably 8 additional bytes per pixel...
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2018-04-17, 14:03:15
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Then please no, albedo doesn't worth single additional byte if it couldn't be turned off. I had low memory situations many times more, than i have used albedo pass.
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2018-04-17, 14:19:56
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yep, this is why I prefer to have having it as explicit opt-in by adding the pass
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2018-04-18, 09:54:41
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Then please no, albedo doesn't worth single additional byte if it couldn't be turned off. I had low memory situations many times more, than i have used albedo pass.

A FullHD pic means +16MB RAM, a 4K means +64MB RAM, I think it's not much. Displacement, Proxies and those hundreds of textures eats the RAM. When rendering is out of memory that 64MB won't save anybody's life...

2018-04-18, 10:28:14
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The thing is that you'll have 8 bytes per pixel here, 4 bytes per pixel there, 1 additional byte per instance isn't a deal breaker either... and in the end you have a death of a thousand cuts and no single place where you can do any memory significant savings.

64 MB can still be pretty significant in situations where the scene almost fits in the memory.

I definitely agree that this should remain an opt-in feature. Maybe it would make sense to add some kind of "there's probably a wrong albedo somewhere in the scene, add albedo element to find out" warning in the future.

2018-04-18, 11:26:51
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Exactly, those megabytes adds very quickly. And if albedo will be permanently added to VFB, i will definitely ask for sampler info pass as well, because that info is much more useful to me than albedo :]
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2018-04-18, 11:28:21
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What would make sense is some "conserve memory" checkbox that sumarilly turns on/off certain features, such as auto-albedo pass, auto-sampling focus pass, low-memory embree, etc.
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2018-06-21, 18:03:32
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Just posted this in another post but a specular pass would be amazing.

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2018-06-21, 20:12:19
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Just posted this in another post but a specular pass would be amazing.

We already have it: reflection.

Specular in CG graphics is just a fast fake approximation of actual reflection. In the 'real world', there is no such thing as 'specular'.

2018-06-22, 10:07:27
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Just posted this in another post but a specular pass would be amazing.

We already have it: reflection.

Specular in CG graphics is just a fast fake approximation of actual reflection. In the 'real world', there is no such thing as 'specular'.

The specular Pass is not just a approximation of reflection, whatever that means, it is the highlighted area of reflections.

Non the less if people are asking for it why not have it? it improves peoples workflows and post production retouchers here keep asking for it.

No one said it has to be removed from the reflections pass.

2018-06-22, 13:42:47
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There is no such thing as specular in Corona though. This is what the previous poster meant - in the real world, there is no such thing as specular either, it is purely reflection, and Corona works the same way. Specular was something invented in computer graphics back when doing full reflections was not always possible (hardware wasn't what it is today :) ) in order to give a faked impression of the reflection from a light source, and was a way of faking what happens in the real world; and it's a fake that Corona does not have - so I would guess a specular pass is impossible, since there is no specular in the rendering.

Not sure if doing some post processing on the reflections pass, to filter it to particularly high brightness, would give the desired result, but it's the closest thing to what specular was faking (reflections of bright light sources). Of course where specular faked it with always perfectly rounded shapes, the reflections pass would have the actual shape of the light source in there, so still not exactly the same :)
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2018-06-23, 00:47:34
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PBR! Cmon everybody! Sing it with me now! PBR!
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2018-06-23, 01:19:22
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PBR! Cmon everybody! Sing it with me now! PBR!

YES! Exactly my thoughts. This is the new gold standard. At the VFX company I work at, Scanline as a look dev and lighting supervisor, over the last year I've been hard at work slowly converting everyone over to PBR, and it is yielding fantastic results. Much better looking assets that behave much more predictably to physical lights than the old diff/spec work flow.

2018-06-23, 07:46:45
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PBR will only change workflow, not really output quality. There is nothing that *looks* better with PBR, it just makes good looking things a bit easier to set up if your input is PBR set of maps. But talking about just a raw material, anything an average PBR material, such as Disney PBR, can do, can be replicated using CoronaMTL.

If we are talking about Principled material, then it's really just a workflow difference, not quality difference. Of course, I am not implying we should not have it. I am just saying that it won't make anything look magically better.

2018-06-23, 11:28:16
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No one was questioning whether the CoronaMTL can support PBR style shaders. Setting up PBR style shadering standards is possible in any renderer that supports GGX or a similar microfaceting BRDF, it's not just a Disney PBR thing.

There's nothing magic about it, and it's not just a workflow difference. But the results speak for themselves: less time to set up when adhering to energy conservation guidelines, and surfaces that behave more physically accurately and scale linearly in response to light exposure changes which leads to less work to tweak in comp to final a shot, all adds up to an increase in the quality output of work.