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[Max] I need help! / Any way to randomise gamma within texture tiling?

« on: 2021-09-14, 11:23:31 »

I want to add a bit pf patchy variation across a fabric surface to simulate panels stitched together. Im looking for a way either with corona or some OSL shaders that would let me randomise the gamma of a single tiling bitmap so every time it tiles its slightly different. Has anyone got any ideas on how this might be achieved?

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[Max] Feature Requests / Lock IR window size

« on: 2021-08-15, 21:55:30 »

Im aware this has been requested dozens of times over the last 5 or so years but has never made its way into a release or even onto the Trello for some reason.
I cant be the only person using a 4k monitor here and im sure we all have the same problem with IR where it accidentally resizes itself to full screen.
Its insanely irritating and id love to finally see something done about it in the next version.

A simple lock window size button would solve a problem many many users here have complained about for years of the IR window randomly resizing itself when interacting with it.
The links below are just a few of the requests. The last link is four pages of +1s from 2017 so its clearly a needed feature by some of the most vocal users on here.

this sure seems like a popular topic... ;)

I followed up in the same thread asking if it would be in V4 and the thread got posts over the next 3 years but 4 versions later its still being requested.
C4D appears to have a 'max IR resolution' feature already. Why not max?

https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=19933.0
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=32579.0
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=27529.0
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=16765.0

Just this week someone has requested the same thing and was told it isnt a priority feature.
It would be great if this could become a priority 'small annoying thing' fix and make its way into the next version :)

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[Max] General Discussion / Any updates on integration with chaos cloud?

« on: 2021-08-07, 14:33:45 »

Im aware its early days for the service but im wondering if theres any update as to when/if we might see integration with chaos cloud on the horizon?
Im guessing it would be part of a major release at some point in future but is there anything you can tell us about any goals you have for when you might be looking to integrate?

Im excited to not have to deal with the quirks and lack of standardization across different render farms and just having something natively will be a huge quality of life improvement!

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[Max] I need help! / Corona Bitmap additional parameters - real world size?

« on: 2021-07-13, 23:39:55 »

Is there a way to access the corona bitmap real world map parameters with a controller? I see there is a checkbox for the control but no 'size' parameters.
With the advent of the new pbr workflow it would make it alot easier top set up real world maps if this control was accessible so you only have to adjust one controller to resize your entire material.
So unless im missing something completely this is either a help thread or a feature request thread :D

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / IR Rendering Hidden objects - V6.2 & Max 2022

« on: 2021-05-01, 21:56:35 »

IR Appears to be rendering objects that are hidden. The objects disappears if it gets deleted.
Max 2022 and Corona 6 hf2.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Corona distance dependency loop warning locking up max

« on: 2021-03-30, 17:55:27 »

When using the distance map and adding items, if i click something it doesn't like and receive the dependency loop warning, Max locks up completely for ten minutes or more.
I cant click any dialog boxes or windows or click OK in the error popup.

This is with Max 2021 and Corona 5.
Im not sure if its reproduceable in other versions as we are locked due to deadline not fully supporting corona 6.

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[Max] I need help! / [Solved] Zdepth showing strange vignetting

« on: 2021-03-18, 17:23:41 »

Im rendering a large flat sheet and using either camera environment ranges or max min values, i get strange vignetting on the zdepth pass.
Is this a known bug?

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Reflected caustics dont produce volumetric lighting

« on: 2021-02-24, 01:02:49 »

I was playing around with lighting tests and got playing with caustics and a mirror ball. So i built a quick test setup and soon realised that while the light thats hitting the mirror ball emits as expected with volumetric streaks, the reflected light bouncing from the ball to the walls does not produce the same 'god rays' but still displays the correct brightness on the walls.

I would assume the reflected light would infact produce a ray as bright as the incoming light when reflected of a perfect mirror this way and should therefore produce a beam.
Is this a restriction of the caustics solver? Im aware this is a pretty niche use case.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Timestamps on error messages

« on: 2021-02-23, 13:35:25 »

Hi, Its not that important but it would be nice to have timestamps on the errors in the error messages window for those times when youre debugging a scene.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Physical Materials in MatID passes

« on: 2021-02-04, 13:35:45 »

Im not sure if its been fixed but we are still locked to v5.2 at work but we have discovered that physical materials don't render in MatID passes.
We applied the same ID to an object with corona materials and it works as expected.

Corona 5.2
Max 2021

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[Max] I need help! / DOF is changing between IR and render

« on: 2021-01-12, 22:49:36 »

Ive got a camera path set up with some DOF on the camera. The target is linked to the object i want to keep in focus and does not move.
When i render my frame in IR it looks correct. When I fully render it, the object is completely out of focus.
Can anyone suggest any reason why this might be happening?

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[Max] Feature Requests / PhoenixFD Volumetric rendering in passes

« on: 2021-01-08, 00:28:15 »

Ive noticed that theres a specific 'vray' mode with Phoenix that allows the simulations to render as geometry and therefore included in passes like zdepth and ID etc.
Is there a way to make this function in corona as simply changing to that mode doesnt work. Is this a known limitation?

Thanks
Jack

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[Max] Feature Requests / Material override pass

« on: 2020-11-17, 12:07:46 »

Is it at all feasible to have a material override render pass just like the cTexMap?

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[Max] Feature Requests / Render selected: Layer

« on: 2020-11-17, 12:06:12 »

It would be great to be able to select layers  and have that as your render selected mode.
Currently we are having to merge xrefs and create selection sets in order to render the contents of selected layers.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / [RESOLVED] CCC node not working in bump slot (V5 HF2)

« on: 2020-11-02, 11:35:11 »

Im not sure if this has been fixed in v6 but in 5.2 ive noticed that i cant run a noise map through a corona colour correct and into a composite.
It works fine with a standard colour correct but corona colour correct doesnt seem to output any information to the composite node.