Hi guys
First of all, I want to thank the corona developers for such impressive rendering engine, really nice results in a few clicks!
I'm an intermediate Vray user, but in this two days I gave myself the opportunity to try Corona, and get easily involved, after looking the galleries with user's works, I guess it's time to move on...
I share with you my first test image for a WIP scene, very basic, but I would like to improve with your opinion ans suggestions, as well to ask some questions:
Corona was set to default values, except for
-LUT Gamma, enabled to 2.2
-Exposure: 9
-Highlight compression:30
-PT samples: 1024 (I read somewhere it can improve image quality)
MATERIALS
1. I just import some vray objects and convert materials with DeadClown's Advanced Corona Material Converter (
http://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,126.0.html) but I noticed items must be un-grouped previous to convert them, is a bug?
once converted materials lost specular levels or difusse maps are not correctly shown. please look at the plants
LIGHTS
2. Is there a way to hide the "solid volume" from corona lights? I mean, is kinda annoying to add some lights on windows and then get a solid volume which doesnt allow me to see thru the scene. Something like "wired" or non-solid light?
3. It makes me wonder: Is it really needd to add some lights on windows or spherical lights for interior scenes? at the end I just used a HDRI map as only light source.
CAMERAS
4. I love the option for correcting white colors with color maping post process in real time, but some times, depending on lights sources I have to change those values each time I need to get a new image, also, by doing this way, I will not remember the settings for each camera :(.
Plase add something like vrayphysical camera, in order to control DOF, Exposure, Highlights, contrast WB and so on. Please add the option for controlling those values on camera while rendering too, its a cool option!
OTHER
5. I set the same rendering time from my vray scene in order to compare image quality. As you can notice, Corona image seems to be more "blurred" at background.
There is away to improve or change Antialiasing? how can I clear noise?
6. I use the VFB + plugin (
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/vfb-a-feature-rich-extension-to-the-3dsmax-frame-buffer), wich adds the option to load image files to compare with a slider , and also a filmstrip where you can see and "rescue" a previous rendered image. I similar option for Corona will be really nice.
Thanks!