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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona 5!

« on: 2019-11-07, 10:33:51 »

I made over 50 tests with Corona 5 and 3ds Max 2014. I see only positive changes:)
Over 30 scenes were rendered faster. With Corona 4 scenes (4200x3200) were rendered 19 minutes, with Corona 5 it was a lot faster - 15:45.
Starting rendering (parsing) is faster in all cases - with Corona 4 all scenes which i talked ablove started with 20-25 second for parsing, now with Corona 5 parsing is only 10-12 seconds.
And las biggest surprise - all scenes aftes 15 passes with Corona 4 have noise at level 1.68%.
But with Corona 5 noise is 1.05% after 13 passes.
Congratulations Corona Team :) huuuuge congratulations:)
Greetings

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Gallery / Re: Drylands; contemporary mountain retreat

« on: 2019-08-08, 11:10:41 »

Hey man, really outstanding details and lighting. I love these little bit desaturated skies and whole detailed environment (especially little plants around house). Bricks material is really good too :) Congratulations!

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Gallery / Re: Loop House

« on: 2019-08-08, 11:09:15 »

I love blue skys the most, too. It looks the best for my taste on exteriors and you did a good job here.

I made few tests with HDR skies, but these maps has no good results for me in this case. CoronaSky gave my the best results in daylightning renders. Time to time i'm using some 2d skies in postproductions but it has many issues (for example clouds perspective or sky color temperature which is not the same as render color temperature ). In that case (2d clouds) in postprodcution i has to spend many hours to make postproduction clouds absolutely the same "feeling view" for every rendered view. For 2 views it's ok, but for 4-5 or more views i prefer to use clear sky or superb hdri maps with only little bit postpro in photoshop.

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Gallery / Re: Loop House

« on: 2019-08-08, 11:03:28 »

Lovely architecture and renders - well done.
How did you end up doing the grass?

Well, i spent many, many days in previous projects to find the best solutions with prepare good looki 3d grass. Why? Because i recognized that grass is alwyas filling up to 20-25% percent of my rendered pictures. These pictures above are good examples. Grass is always on first plan. And i made so many, many, tests with 3D grass which is in Forest Pack Pro library or with many other 3d grass models which i bought (3dmentor for example). And results were good but not superb good. 3d mentors grasses was one of the best solutions in many cases, but there i found this magic set:
https://gumroad.com/l/DAMA01
Well it's not ready solution for all grass situations, but i made some my own mixes (layers for Forest Pack Pro) from that set and now i'm happy with result :) It looks beliveable:)
Greetings and i hope it will help You :)

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Gallery / Re: Loop House

« on: 2019-08-02, 15:01:15 »

Thank You :) Daylight with pure blue sky are always really hard to me to prepare for good looking renders. But time to time i'm very happy with final pictures like this - i don't have to spend hours in photoshop to tuning lighting :)

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Gallery / Loop House

« on: 2019-08-02, 10:59:40 »

Loop House project made by http://banach-architekci.pl/
Software 3ds Max 2014, Corona 4, ForestPackPro 6.1.5, Photoshop CS4.
Daylight renders made with pure CoronaSky and CoronaSun.
Dusk render made with NoEmotion hdri  "03-28-Sunset.rar" which is available to free download at http://noemotionhdrs.net (Thank You NoEmotion team for great and free HDRi maps).
Greetings!

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[Max] Corona Goodies - User Contributions / Re: Free Corona 3D Model every Monday

« on: 2017-10-17, 11:06:50 »

Well - excellent models - i love the simple shapes but with bumped details - light has sooo many ways to refraction :)
Greetings and thx!

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News / Re: Corona Renderer 1.7 for 3ds Max Daily Build

« on: 2017-10-16, 17:38:28 »

I'm using Corona Alpha6 for 3ds max (very,very old version corona, but it's free). I installed 1.7 RC5 and i made test for my interior scene which was rendered in Alpha6.
A) Alpha6 - 100 passes, 120 minutes, most shadows areas are noise clean (prepass included in render time).
after that i spent some time to get similar results in 1.7 RC5 (i made over 10 tests increasing passes, and i zoomed in every render test which i've done in 1.7 RC5, as long as i see no difference in noise areas. The reason is fact that Alpha has no NOISE parameter in output buffer to compare with RC5 renders).
Result after tests:
B) Corona 1.7 RC5 with denoising 0.5 - 40 passes + denoise took 14 mintues (with prepass).
For me is very simple calculation - 10 times faster with the same quality.
Resolution was 1920x1080. Typical interior scene with tables, chairs, office furnitures, artificial lights (ies) and small window for sky light.
What can i say - congratulations for Corona Team :) that's a reason to get Corona 1.7 licence and unistall Alpha6 Version:)
Greetings!

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[Max] Corona Goodies - User Contributions / Re: Free Corona 3D Model every Monday

« on: 2017-09-27, 12:26:02 »

Thank You for a new model - really nostalgic :) heh, i remember my first lego set which i get when i was 12 years old :) Big Thank You!

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News / Re: Corona Renderer 1.7 Release Candidate 1 for 3ds Max out now!

« on: 2017-09-26, 11:04:55 »

Great:) i will test some scenes from Alpha6 (i'm stil using it) to compare how many changes and features now is possible:)
Thanks for hard work with new builds and releases! :)

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News / Re: Corona Renderer 1.7 Release Candidate 1 for 3ds Max out now!

« on: 2017-09-26, 10:48:54 »

I want to test 1.7RC2 version but i don't have FairSaaS or Box license:( is possible to install it and use in some demo mode or trial?

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[Max] Corona Goodies - User Contributions / Re: Free Corona 3D Model every Monday

« on: 2017-09-22, 09:29:35 »

In my opinion people don't respect freebies. Many of people just want to get something for free and "go to home". Community should get more attention to posts like this (original post with every monday freebies) because someone spend a lot of time to produce something and is giving it for free. One word from people should be enough - just "Thank You".
I have a blog and people are just downloading. Almost no comments, no shares, no feedback, no interaction with me by asking for something, just nothing. People are downloaders:)
I want to say again and again - thank You for freebies. For me it's timesaver stuff, and i feel that commercial product made by the same contributor (which is giving freebies) will have the same hig quality as freebies.
Greetings

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Render Legion and Corona Join Forces with Chaos Group

« on: 2017-08-28, 10:13:15 »

In our company i'm working with Vray for animations (big projects, with huge amount of objects, large areas) - because i need clean renders with some simplest solutions (interpolated GI but no splotches). For still frames like archiviz i'm using Corona 1.6. It's very good deal for us to have a choice at any moment of project what we have and which engine is better at this moment. For fast works and when we have only few hours to prepare something less realistic but with animated camera and objects - than we are using Lumion 7.5 . It's a choice. I want to have a choice. I hope Vray Team, which have one of the best support team around CG market (support for users is really fast, similar to Corona Team support for users), will give us a choice in next years and Corona will be still alive.
Greetings

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Render Legion and Corona Join Forces with Chaos Group

« on: 2017-08-27, 11:38:18 »

I'm sad :( If on the market are 3-4 big companies, than companies have to be competitive with other companies. If one important company is going to be part of other important company, than is no chance to get competitive market. Prices will change (upper, not lower), updates will be with less new features. Autodesk has done it many times (actually Autodesk has discontinued Softimage software...). Well, i hope Corone will get 1.7 and prices will not change.
Greetings

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[Max] Corona Goodies - User Contributions / 3d scanned freebies - from textures.com

« on: 2017-05-23, 13:39:05 »

Hi
I found that textures.com has new library of scanned objects:) Yeah and 3 objects are free to download (little bread, watermelon and small stone):
https://www.textures.com/download/3dobjects0011/128989
https://www.textures.com/download/3dobjects0023/129053
https://www.textures.com/download/3dobjects0050/129262
There are OBJ files and diffuse, displacement and normal maps to download.
I suppose that it can be used in any software with Corona. I tried with 3ds max 2014 and Corona 1.6 - looks good.
I hope someone find it useful:)