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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Denoiser Run Time

« on: 2017-01-30, 16:00:04 »

And for tests from the real world, in the Recent Spaces interviews they discuss how they saw render times reduced by 50 to 75%:
https://youtu.be/TwvFW4zBv14?t=6m34s

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Resume animation render

« on: 2017-01-28, 21:26:33 »

So not the other resume, fair enough! I'd still be intrigued if someone comes up with a Max script for the second way, could be handy for "quick render of whole animation to see how it looks, now pick up from the previous and do more passes for final quality" - and even just to know whether it is technically possible via Maxscript or no, for pure curiosity's sake :)

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Resume animation render

« on: 2017-01-27, 17:53:44 »

Ah, I see on what they may have been asking, re-render all frames from a certain number of passes to a new higher number of passes. If anyone comes up with a maxscript, I'd be interested to see it :)

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[Max] I need help! / Re: upload file in mantis always failed

« on: 2017-01-27, 15:03:35 »

Don't know the size limit in Mantis off the top of my head, but to get by in the meantime whether it's meant to be failing with that size or not, can use
https://corona-renderer.com/upload/

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Resume animation render

« on: 2017-01-27, 14:55:13 »

What I do is this, if the animation was stopped normally, simply start it again and set a different start frame in Max (to the first one that was not rendered).

If the animation stopped abnormally, start it again but from the last frame that was rendered (so, overwrite the last frame, just in case it was corrupted in any way).

As a note, always render an animation to separate images for each frame, and turn it into a movie format in post, otherwise you do have to render from the beginning again. (edit, well, depending on your movie format - many need a complete file to work, though I think .mov will work up to the last frame it has, in which case you could just start from the last frame that was in there, and combine the partial .mov with the new parts in post - but to avoid heartache, simply render to separate image files :) )

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Unstable calculation

« on: 2017-01-27, 14:52:52 »

One other thought, no other input devices connected at the time, like a tablet etc?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Unstable calculation

« on: 2017-01-27, 14:50:57 »

TY Tizanio!

Glad you found OBS useful! I think it is great (I use it for recording tutorials).

So it only happens when the mouse passes over into a 3ds Max viewport, from what I can see.

Is it only happening in this scene, or in all scenes? If only this one, then it sounds more like scene specific than related to the mouse. If all scenes, could be the mouse, it could be sending out some signal that makes Max treat it as an update to the scene.

If I encountered this, I'd test with a different scene. If it stops happening with other scenes, any unusual plugins or materials in the scene? Something is indicating that there's a change in the scene, so wondering if there's anything in there that might be actively refreshing whenever the mouse passes over a viewport?

If it still happens with other scenes, could unplug the mouse entirely and enable mouse keys (http://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/2-ways-to-turn-on-mouse-keys-in-windows-10.html) and see if the issue still occurs.

Others may have other suggestions too!

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Gallery / Re: Napoleon

« on: 2017-01-27, 14:05:38 »

I can say with hand on heart that it's the first render I've ever seen of a halfway melted wine gum Napoleon :) As you say, concept dev can take you to all sorts of strange - but wonderful! - places. TY for sharing how it was done :) And now I crave sweets again!

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Rendering 360 stereo for VR live action compositing

« on: 2017-01-27, 13:57:38 »

I always think of the top / bottom (ie left eye / right eye) images as two separate renders that happen at once - which means any background will indeed appear in full in both (rather than it being one render, where the background would be stretched across both left and right eye results)

Never tried compositing onto an already-stereo image, but my first thought would be to render without the background, just getting the 3D object with an alpha, and recombine in post (stereo output of 3D object with background as an alpha on top of the stereo footage.) A non-stereo version of the background would be used to get reflections etc, and a shadow catcher for catching shadows onto the table.

Have never tested it though - may give it a try and see!

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[Max] General Discussion / Interview with Recent Spaces, part 1 out now

« on: 2017-01-26, 16:43:08 »

Hi all!

Last year we conducted some interviews with leaders in the architectural visualization industry, and today part 1 of the interview with Recent Spaces is out:

Thanks!
   Tom

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Gallery / Re: Napoleon

« on: 2017-01-26, 16:41:12 »

It does look edible! Has me craving something sugar-frosted since seeing it lol

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Unstable calculation

« on: 2017-01-26, 16:38:05 »

In case it is useful for anyone, I use OBS Studio, which is free and screen captures to mp4 etc, can find out more here - https://obsproject.com/

I know personally after an occurrence of a trojan for someone here on the forums, I won't be opening any .exes, just to be super safe! There may be others who are similarly reluctant to open anything with executable code in it too, not sure, I can only speak for myself there - but I would guess more people will take a look if it doesn't involve running code to view it.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Unstable calculation

« on: 2017-01-26, 15:26:56 »

Is it possible to have the file in a standard movie format (mp4 for example, or mov) rather than an exe? I am always wary of running any exes :)

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Creating Moire

« on: 2017-01-26, 15:24:10 »

Does this mean there's a market for a new type of plugin, the Image Worsifier, guaranteed to downgrade the quality of your images and introduce as many artifacts as possible?

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General CG Discussion / Re: Artomatix - texture creation suite - research

« on: 2017-01-25, 18:30:12 »

Awesome, ty! I hope you get some good feedback!