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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Need some advice from more experienced folks about settings and render times

« on: 2013-09-21, 14:14:41 »

Hello,

I tried to swap hdri for coronasky lightning went worse as expected... similar behaviour maybe a little less grainy.

Then I turned off the glass (a box with a material applied with refraction onesided (box)) i got acceptable noise levels by the 327 pass... That would mean more or less a render of 6 hours


Better but I think that for this kind of scene the render times are still to high and with allot of conditions (glass turned off, coronasky)

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Need some advice from more experienced folks about settings and render times

« on: 2013-09-21, 03:15:02 »

Hello Juraj,

Its one HDRI from Peter Guthrie.

I'm using it with gamma boosted to 0.75. And I'm running it from a colorcorrection map and vrayhdri map.
Due this setup never gave me problems in the past I never thought that could be cause.

I'll guess that I can start by trying using a cleaner solution.


I will report tomorrow with my findings.


Mean while if you find something awkward with the settings please alert me.


Thanks

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Need some advice from more experienced folks about settings and render times

« on: 2013-09-21, 00:31:01 »

Hello Keymaster,

I tried corona in another project and had similar behaviour,  I tough that was due the fact that the other project have smaller windows.


Here it is a screen-shot of the settings from this current project.

Settings for what I know, are the default ones.



thanks

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Need some advice from more experienced folks about settings and render times

« on: 2013-09-20, 22:34:20 »

So I did a region test to see if how many passes are needed to clean that wall.

I let it run for about +- 900 passes to get acceptable noise levels. Well that would mean about +- 18h render...

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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Need some advice from more experienced folks about settings and render times

« on: 2013-09-20, 22:09:34 »

Hello rafpug

Sure...

I only used hdri on max environment slot.

Thanks

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Work in Progress/Tests / Need some advice from more experienced folks about settings and render times

« on: 2013-09-20, 21:55:17 »

Hello,

So this is my first test. Its directly converted from vray to corona.
My objective is to compare render times to see if I can get corona in production pipeline here at the office.

I used PT - HD, standard settings and let it cook for about 3h:13min in a dual xeon. This is what I got... plenty of noise.
3 hours of processing aren't enough to clean a scene of this type ?

Mind you that this is an optimal interior (the back and side of the room are windows) and its lit only with a HDRI.

Hope I can get some insights about it.


Thanks

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: CoronaCamera - tweaks

« on: 2013-09-20, 01:04:55 »

Despite I registered just a while ago can I  suggest Colormapping by camera ?

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Gallery / Re: Ray sofa

« on: 2013-09-20, 00:50:42 »

Hello eduard,

Already praised this image on facebook (Teófilo Raposo here :), I really like it, very aesthetic...


The curtains are the only object that I would try to improve (maybe it just need more glossiness + fallof map to give that satin look).


But nevertheless, great work !




Cya

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: New user some questions - distributed rendering -

« on: 2013-09-19, 22:43:04 »

Thank you very much !

SO  i just need to drop the hdri in environment slot (max or corona ?) as a normal image ?


About the displacement thing, can we expect to see a CoronaDisplacement modifier in the future ?

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[Max] General Discussion / New user some questions - distributed rendering -

« on: 2013-09-19, 21:55:51 »

Hello guys,

Brand new Corona user here! =)
I real hope that we can migrate from vray to corona in a near future (real near... like in a commissioned  job or two =) )

The reason:

Tired of messing with DMC mumbo jumbo and brute force never ending renders...


Already doing some tests with version V05 has I'm writing this post !

Already have some questions:

1- I see that distributed rendering is already in development, that's awesome ! Do you have some timetable for a stable release ? This one is the most important question right now for me !

2- I saw in some post that in general we should use PT-PT for exteriors and PT-HD for interiors, is this right ?

3 - Should I mess with the settings to achieve more speed or for now use the standard ones ?

4 - Right now, can i use vray domelight and vray camera with corona ? (Using some basic domelight+hdri setup)

5 - About materials: is Corona limited in some way about materials physical  properties? (Mind you that I'm in archviz business, so its all about that "every day materials")

6 - Can I use VrayDisplacement modifier with Corona ?



Cya