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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen only builds (3rd Gen starts on page 50)

« on: 2021-11-09, 10:09:26 »

Hello friends,

what about the 5950x? Looking at Corona Benchmark it is not too far away from 3960x. 3960x avarage is 38s vs 5950x avarage is 44s.
Just looking at these numbers it seems to be a reasonable alternative, espacially as the price of 5950x is about the half of the 3960x.

We have two 3960x workstations wich are pretty solid. Will there be much difference in performance or stability? Am I missing something important?

Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Rendering in 8k

« on: 2021-11-04, 12:09:53 »

Get more Ram. 64gb is the minimum nowdays as models and textures get bigger and bigger.
For now you can try to check the "conserve memory" box in the performance tab of corona settings. Should be able to render but will take longer.
You can also downgrade your scene by optimizing your geometry and resizing textures, optimizing vegetation scatter, disabling displacement etc...

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Corona for Apple Silicon M1?

« on: 2021-11-03, 09:11:12 »

„In the meantime, it is possible to use M1 with Corona via Rosetta.“

Do you or someone else know how the performance and the stability of corona run through Rosetta is? I need a Notebook for homeoffice and the 14‘ MacBook Pro would be perfect except Corona isn’t natively supported yet.

https://corona-renderer.com/benchmark/results/cpu/apple

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General CG Discussion / Re: Websites to buy music for animations?

« on: 2021-10-13, 09:52:54 »

https://artlist.io/

Great non generic music by professional artists.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Looking for a good Render Farm

« on: 2021-10-11, 09:37:53 »

Just finished a big scene animation couple of day ago...

I wanted to try GarageFarm for a change but ended using RebusFarm at the end because we didn't have too much time on our hands to play around.

What I liked about garagefarm is that you actually have some sort of a online file browser and apprently can even connect via ftp to update your files. I also liked that they massage you once a problem is detected.
They do support multi camera upload but you need to setup the list everytime again you upload. What really annoyed me is the upload proccess itself. Their upload tool uploads the whole scene for every camera (in my case 5gb x 14 Cameras). Thats just crazy.

RebusFarm on the other side was easier to use with test frames as it uploads the scene once and then uses your Batch Render list to split it into jobs/cameras. The upload itself often produces errors if your textures are stored in some funny folders. Even on the lowest priority the jobs start rendering almost instantly. The render nodes had a lot of errors but the support was very helpful and kept restarting the nodes to keep it going. My questions about why the nodes where crashing and if I can fix anything on my side where basically unanswered. Some cameras had to be rerendered(for free) as some nodes rendered the frames with missing railclone objects.

For future use I really want to try GarageFarm a little more, on a project wich is not due in three days.

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Hardware / Re: Oculus Quest 2

« on: 2021-09-23, 14:29:59 »

Just gonna drop this here: https://www.vrtourviewer.com/

Very simple: preload the app on your device, render your panoramas, create a tour with KrPano or Pano2Vr (their app supports both outputs), move the output on your device, done.
We are using it with OculusGo and are very happy with the result. They also have a windows software wich lets you connect to your googles so people can watch you on a live on a monitor.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Color correct LUT in Dron footage

« on: 2021-09-20, 10:13:44 »

Just render it with black direct overide and alpha. Compose later in photoshop.

I wouldn't do that... You'll get mask-lines on the 3D-edge where it goes over into the BG.

Thats why you need to render with black as a direct override.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Color correct LUT in Dron footage

« on: 2021-09-17, 13:14:23 »

Just render it with black direct overide and alpha. Compose later in photoshop.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: HDRI animated with CoronaBitmap

« on: 2021-09-14, 10:48:22 »

More like this: https://mattomedia-my.sharepoint.com/personal/andre_mattomedia_com/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Fandre%5Fmattomedia%5Fcom%2FDocuments%2Fhdri%5Fanimation%2Emp4&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Fandre%5Fmattomedia%5Fcom%2FDocuments
The U-Offset is not beeing updated. It only updates if you enter it by hand.

Thanks

edit: broken link

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[Max] I need help! / HDRI animated with CoronaBitmap

« on: 2021-09-13, 14:37:58 »

Hey guys, I'am kinda not sure if this goes to help, bugs or feature request..

I sort of like the possibility of "Enviroment (Rotation)" in CoronaBitmap as you enter real angle values when rotating your HDRI. My issue is that max does not update the U-Offset if I key the "Enviroment(Rotation)" value in curve editor, thus the HDRI does not rotate. It works only if you enter it by hand.

Am I missing something? Is animating the U-Offset from 0-1 straight away the more elegant solution?

thanks

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Learner’s Corner / Re: Lack of realism

« on: 2021-09-10, 09:21:08 »

The first things to fix here should be the composition and framing. A well placed camera will help you develop a connection/love to this object.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Scene stops to render

« on: 2021-09-01, 14:01:48 »

Can you please clarify if you are using any remote desktop apps?

Oh is that a thing? I had problems with stopping renders on remote machine after disconnecting. Software used was Anydesk. It was driving me crazy but was solvable by clicking on a different window than max after hitting render.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Can't upgrade to ver. 7

« on: 2021-07-26, 10:12:06 »

Hey maru thanks for the reply. I actually did it a couple of times before but decided to give it another try with "screenshot proof" and then hey... it worked.
Don't know if it was a specific order of actions, your helping aura, or the fact that I moved the installtaion package from one drive to the main partition. All good now.

Thanks maru

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[Max] I need help! / Can't upgrade to ver. 7

« on: 2021-07-23, 14:51:09 »

Hey guys, I'am having some weird problem here with upgrading to Corona version 7. After installing Ver 7 it shows me that the current version still is Corona 6 RC1.

Material Library was updated but the corona plugin stays the same.
If I remove the CoronaMax2020.dlr from plugin folder, then it also disappears from max.

I tried everything on this list besides updating Windows: https://help.c4d.corona-renderer.com/support/solutions/articles/5000694496 :

- Uninstalled and reinstalled again
- Uninstalled with Revo uninstaller and reinstalled again
- Uninstalled and cleaned manually as told in the documentation
- Installed manually as told in the docuimentation
- moved plugin to stdplugins
- reinstalled max
- removed the ENU Max Settings in AppData

I tried installing Corona Ver 5.2 and it worked well. After installing Corona Ver 7 on top it shows Corona 6 RC1 again.

I watched Conjuring 3 yesterday, so maybe I'am cursed? Any ideas?

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General CG Discussion / Re: 'Interpolate' frames?

« on: 2021-06-25, 15:24:14 »

It is heavily dependant on your scene but you can try interpolating with AI interpolation tools.

In my recent project I rendered just every second frame and interpolated the rest with DAIN neural network.
See results here: https://vimeo.com/472148001/c9d1ff9c52

The problematic scenes are those where you have any grid like areas.

If you are interested there is another neural network wich promises to be faster and better than DAIN, called Flowframes: https://nmkd.itch.io/flowframes