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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Render times increases drastically between Corona 9 & 12

« on: 2024-07-05, 17:34:34 »

Yes, it has gotten slower for sure. I was also sad. I think every version gets slower despite what they tell you about speed increase and optimizations.

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[C4D] Daily Builds / Re: The new VFB: icons

« on: 2024-06-27, 22:39:02 »

Not a big fan of the design either. It looks like a programmer (no offense) and not a designer did this. In fact Corona is slowly moving away from the straightforward design render engine, and I find it confusing as to why. Every version seems to feel slower and more bloated. As UE5 becomes used more and more in my world of commercial animation and rendering, I hope speed and ease of use would still be top of mind.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Adjusting highlights intensity of Corona lights

« on: 2024-05-30, 16:10:01 »

We understand that Corona is a physically-based renderer, but you allow little cheats here and there anyway. You also cant Exclude lights and include lights in a real world. I think all people are asking for is more control over the render! There is not photographer that does not photoshop the crap out of their images anyway, so I don't understand the argument about not letting people adjust stuff like this. To each their own I guess. But if it does not work that way under the hood that make sense.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Faster Rendering

« on: 2024-02-05, 20:23:01 »

Here you go for reference.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Price Increase

« on: 2024-01-11, 16:54:59 »

Add me to the list of confused and disappointed. The value is just not there anymore and there are so many alternatives.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Strip / partial rendering

« on: 2023-09-07, 22:17:19 »

I have done this before for a print job with a huge reolution on Garage Farm, they support strip rendering. Im not sure about doing it on your box though sorry. It sounds like your scene may be the issue. We have sent huge images with many of Forest pack scatters, so not sure why your's is having an issue.
Sorry I could not be of more help, but Garage Farm has helped me for sure on problems like this.

Cheers, and good luck.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Flickering noise animation

« on: 2023-06-13, 17:20:32 »

There is no way you should be seeing those render times with a scene like that.
If you turn on the render passes you could look and see where the most noise is coming from.
IE: Direct vs Indirect or reflection.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Carona 9 DOF vs older versions

« on: 2023-03-24, 15:26:29 »

Hey Tom,

If you want to set up a time to chat about this I would be open to talking. We are trying to figure out what is going on. We have used Corona in animation production for years, and not
find it very hard to clean up noise that used to not be issues before we upgraded. I know that sounds like not a lot of info, but we don't know why or what changed.

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[Max] General Discussion / Carona 9 DOF vs older versions

« on: 2023-03-21, 20:00:19 »

Has anyone noticed Corona 9 having a harder time cleaning up DOF compared to previous versions? Our scenes just don't clean
up the same as before, and the DOF areas are way more noisy.


Thanks for any imput.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Render selected object inside a volume

« on: 2023-03-17, 21:13:12 »

I actually tried this before, but since I'm using DOF and the plane needs to be very close to the camera because of the fog volume, it's completely blurred.

Would be a nice feature to add a select render option for objects in a volume or behind transparent objects.
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Yes I have run into this issue many times and wished there was an option.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Render selected object inside a volume

« on: 2023-03-17, 16:11:33 »

I think what they are saying is that you can't “render selected” an object in a volume. The Volume renders everything that is inside, even if render selected is used.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona render engine 7 upgrade to 9 noise

« on: 2023-01-20, 16:18:20 »

So I have rolled back to an older Corona version and sent my same scene to the farm. It rendered faster and cost less overall. And the noise was a little bit better on the older version for me.
I'm not sure what is going on under the hood that would have changed. But it is not behaving the same way. Unfortunately all of our scenes are client files and we can't share them, so I am sorry you can't have a file to debug.


Notes:
- Anything but the CoronaHQ denoising is not working for animations.
- Corona 9 has more noise overall in our renders and needs more samples than the previous releases.
- Overall rendering is slower with Corona 9.
- Corona 9 resolving DOF seems to be not as good, and ends up looking like rendering noise and wierd stuff.

- As a studio we have decided not to use Corona 9 in production and hope that the Devs can see this happening on their end.


The orignal poster here though should know that using AI denoiser and DOF is a bad combo with Corona 9.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Is it possible to render objects out and layer them without black edges?

« on: 2023-01-06, 16:58:24 »

Cheap and dirty would be to go to the top menu, Layer> Matting> Defringe

Not the best solution, but will work in a lot of cases.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona render engine 7 upgrade to 9 noise

« on: 2022-12-16, 16:20:34 »

I want to give my 2 cents here. We have been using Corona since the beginning, and our studio just upgraded to Corona 9. We definitely find the renders more noisy than previous releases.
I'm not sure whats going on, but somthing has changed and not for the better for us. We wll most likely roll back to an older version of Corona to render out animations. DOF and indirect noise are for sure worse in Corona 9 for us.

EDIT: This has nothing to do with the denoiser for us.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Flickering on interior animation

« on: 2022-12-07, 15:35:56 »

Any way you can make the videos be able to expand to full resolution? It's hard to tell what is noise and compression. Or are these rendered out at this size?