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[C4D] I need help! / Multiple file/startup templates with different render engines. How?

« on: 2022-07-09, 15:17:07 »

I am trying to figure out if it's possible having multiple template files that include both different render engine settings and assets/objects in the scene.
For example, one starting file/template for Corona, where render engine is set to Corona (of course), environment/hdri is already set and a few basic materials have already been added, and another one with the exact same idea but for Redshift.
On C4D startup I see this quick menu where there's this one default template already added, which makes me think there should definitely be a way to add custom ones:

Problem is, I can't find a way to do that.

Any help would be much appreciated.

P.S. saving two different c4d files with different names and just keeping them on desktop isn't very convenient. Also then there are potential problems with backup directories and etc.

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[Max] I need help! / Reflection IOR vs falloff for wooden floor

« on: 2022-07-04, 18:17:01 »

When creating some of the materials (usually it's wooden floor) I often times see people using falloff nodes to control varying degrees of reflection depending on the view/camera.
But isn't IOR/reflection IOR settings doing exactly that? Why then complicate things and use some additional nodes? Unless you need that extra control that falloff nodes give you. Or am I missing something else here?

Thanks

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General CG Discussion / Clean masks when using DOF

« on: 2021-10-24, 16:51:48 »

Hey everyone.

Is it even possible to get super clean masks when using dof? I want to comp in Davinci Fusion, but I find that I get some kind of "halo'ing"/dark edges when trying to use blurred (because of dof) masks. And now I wonder if that's even possible, or should I leave dof for post production? If so, what's the best software to get most realistic and easy dof effect?

Thank You

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Hardware / Personal render farm that is not local

« on: 2021-03-07, 19:32:05 »

Hello,

How would one setup a mini "render farm" so few people can access/use it while not being in the same (local) network? Anyone can direct me the right way?
Basically we're a team of few, everyone working from home. And we would like to have our own/shared render farm (even if it's only one pc).
Thank you.

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[Max] I need help! / Ornatrix issues

« on: 2020-05-26, 09:48:36 »

Hello,

I'm having a few issues setting up ornatrix. Wondering if that's me who's doing something wrong or what.

Problem number 1:
I am getting this error message once I hit render IF Hair From Guides modifier is applied. Sometimes it just crashes Max and sometimes I'm able to click continue, but usually it crashes later on anyways.

Problem number 2:
Color from base mesh/object not working (using bitmap). Although it should work straight out of the box as far as I know, since it should be the default setting. What's interesting you can see in viewport it's actually working as intended (hair's getting color from base mesh), but in IR it's not. The only way to make it work I found is applying Mesh From Strands modifier and un-ticking "Per Strand UV coords". But IMO it's just a workaround.

Any thoughts?

Thank You.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Difference between old displacement and new displacement

« on: 2020-04-08, 09:46:12 »

So I'm baking this displacement map of the tiles in substance designer, but I notice quite a big visual difference between the two types of displacement when rendered in Corona (3DS Max).

Why is that? Or is this supposed to be like this?

Old disp:

New disp:

Thanks

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Gallery / Sink and mixer set by Antonio Lupi

« on: 2020-01-18, 14:11:49 »

Hello,

Here's a few renders of the set:

Hopefully you enjoyed those :)

More can be found here:

https://www.behance.net/mantas_kava

Or here:

https://www.facebook.com/faktorstudio

Thank You and have a good day.

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[Max] I need help! / Jagged/faceted shading with anisotropy orientation set to UVW

« on: 2020-01-14, 16:10:20 »

Topic name says it all basically. You can see what's going on in the screenshot above.

It looks like it has something to do with UVW's stretching (I might be wrong), but if I want to get correct aniso effect I got to keep uvw straight.

Any thoughts/ideas how to get it fixed?

Aniso set to 1.0 just to exaggerate the effect. On lower levels it is not as obvious.

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Gallery / SJUKRAHOTEL In Iceland

« on: 2019-11-08, 17:50:18 »

Inspired by a photograph of Nanne Springer.

Behance:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/87892391/Hotel-in-Iceland

FB:
https://www.facebook.com/faktorstudio

Enjoy!

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[Max] I need help! / Controlling triplanar rotation with a controller. How?

« on: 2019-10-30, 19:57:29 »

Closest I got so far is this:

But might as well be I'm using totally wrong controller here. If so, what controller should be actually used? Otherwise, you can see numbers in Tri node and controller do not correspond at all, which suggests me some kind of formula/equation should be used in between these two nodes? If so, how can I insert a formula here? And what does that formula look like?

Thank You.

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[Max] I need help! / Batch rendering and taking use of Lightmix when saving as JPGs. Is it possible?

« on: 2019-10-28, 14:03:57 »

Hello,

So now, when rendering multiple images my workflow looks like this:

1. Setup all the cameras.
2. Setup lightmix and post process settings for every camera + save those setup files somewhere on hdd.
3. Setup Batch Rendering.
4. Batch render and save as .CXRs
5. Open each cxr file one by one, load lightmix and postprocess setting files in CIE.
6. Export as JPGs (usually).

And now I wish I could bypass some of the steps and save tons of space in HDD. What if I decide I won't do any PP and I need to export as JPGs straight from Max? But ALSO use benefits of both batch render and lightmix.
For this to work, lightmix setup file should be loaded BEFORE start of rendering for each camera. OR cameras should have independent settings for lightmix, just like now they have independent settings for post process.

Or am I missing something very obvious here? If not, this should probably be a feature request.

Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / Single directional triplanar mtl for multiple objects

« on: 2019-10-26, 13:57:42 »

Hello,

So my goal is this:

Which is two objects with the same triplanar mtl (set on local) applied, however you can notice pattern goes vertically on vertical part, and horizontally on the horizontal (exactly how I want it to go).

BUT, before doing a whole series of actions it looked like this:

And now to get to my goal the only way I found out (so far) is these series of actions (6 of them to be exact):

Add Xform modifier

Select gizmo

Rotate gizmo

Rotate part back to it's place

Activate affect pivot only

Roate back(fix) pivot rotation

And so now finally we have what we want. But this workflow is far from being efficient IMO.
I tried uvw box mapping as well, but that too depends on local axis so it's basically the same problem. UNLESS you break the link(instance) between the two uvw maps (which I don't want to do) and rotate them separately.

Anyone has any suggestions on this?

Thanks

EDIT:

After doing these tests it looks to me that object's "local" axis and "pivot point axis (or direction)" is two totally different things, or..? Because if it were the same, rotating object's pivot point should change object's local axis too, which in result should change the direction of triplanar mtl. But in this case rotating pivot point does nothing.
So I guess we should first start from clarifying what exactly IS local axis and how does it correlate (or does not) with pivot point axis.

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Gallery / Get well lit.

« on: 2019-08-19, 14:51:47 »

Hello,

Here's our representation of Filter Table Lamp (made by bludot.com) in 3D.

Few related links at first:

https://www.behance.net/mantas_kava

https://www.faktorstudio.com/

https://www.facebook.com/faktorstudio

Now to the good stuff:

Hope you enjoyed it!

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Gallery / For those about to rock.

« on: 2019-08-14, 19:51:37 »

Evening, guys!

Sharing my latest attempt at product viz, you be the judge :)

Behance:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/84179649/For-those-about-to-rock

Our website:
https://www.faktorstudio.com/

Our FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/faktorstudio

Done with 3DS Max+Corona.

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[Max] I need help! / Weird shading with anisotropy on

« on: 2019-08-11, 18:40:14 »

Hey guys,

Any idea what is happening here? It seems this shading error occurs when anisotropy mtl is used on bent geometry. It wouldn't be such a surprise (probably) if this was happening on very heavily bent surface, but the rocking chair's frame isn't bent that hard.

Chair's frame