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Hardware / Mobile workstation

« on: 2022-04-26, 22:02:03 »

I have a 3970x workstation sitting in a standard ATX case/motherboard and I would like to make it more portable .

Was thinking about Cerberus X but recently I found a thread here on forum that the CPU needs to be watercooled and there is only (or was) only one liquid cooler at that time which was faulty . Are there currently more options for TRX4 watercooling ? or possibly air cooling ? I would need to transport the computer by car sometimes and I am not sure how risky it is with a water cooling system installed

Many thanks for advice

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Jobs / 3D modeler wanted !

« on: 2021-11-17, 11:26:17 »

Hi

we are urgently seeking a modeller working with 3dsmax and Corona focused on plants (growfx or any other software) and furniture/assets (marvelous designer / zbrush would be great )

Please have a look at references in attachment to have an idea about the complexity and scope

if interested please contact us on Instagram @subpixelsk

Many thanks

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General CG Discussion / Smartrefs and Forest Pack

« on: 2021-05-26, 09:35:46 »

Hi

anybody here using smartrefs in combination with FP ? I am having an issue when I save the scene , my forest object instances (loaded via smatrefs) change scale in viewport - making them 1000x smaller . When I reload the reference from smartref UI the scale changes back again. I tried to contact smartref support but with no luck so I am just trying here if anybody has the same experience

I am using max 2018 with latest Corona daily and Forest Pack 7

Thanks !

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Hardware / 2 builds upgrade

« on: 2019-11-28, 15:20:28 »

Hi

I am currently using these two builds for work

Workstation

2x Xeon 2697v2
128gb ram
gtx 1060
Evga 650w

Node

Threadripper 1950x
64gb ram
gtx 660


I would like to hear opinions on my thoughts to upgrade

Node

3950x (900 eur)
Asus Strix x570 E (300 eur)
4x32 ddr4 (what frequency?) (or maybe 2x32gb would be sufficient for now) (350 eur)
some good cooling (80?)
case, psu, gpu and harddrive would remain as at present

Workstation

3950x (cooling? noctua?) (900 + 80 eur)
Asus Strix x570 E (300 eur)
4x32 ddr4 (what frequency?) (700 eur)
Gtx 1080ti (450 eur)
Psu? (100 eur)
Case? (100 eur)
Hdd? (probably will stick with current ones or maybe add one new 2tb)

I am expecting this two builds to fit into 4.5k budget

Thanks for recommendations

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Max crash on fbx import with CoronaMultimap

« on: 2019-06-23, 21:18:32 »

I am wondering if you guys can reproduce this . When I export an object with material with multimap plugged in to fbx, on import max crashes. This happens on max 2018 with Corona 4 and I tested this also on max 2017 and Corona 3

Thanks a lot

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General CG Discussion / 3dsmax fbx import crash

« on: 2019-06-22, 23:05:27 »

I am getting mad of this - I am on 2018 and if I try to export specific geometry from the scene to fbx and load it afterwards max crashes. Also when I tried to create new object in that same scene and export it , it would import fine. Other question regarding obj format. I have object with multisubobject but obj export doesn´t seem to respect that and messes up the mat ids (resets all to 1) and assigns default material

Do you guys know any workaround for these problems?

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General CG Discussion / Best value/effort 3D marketplace

« on: 2019-06-09, 08:54:37 »

Hi

I would like to hear opinion and experience with selling 3D models on different platforms what would you recommend and why (so far i have only experience with 3dsky and cgtrader)

Thanks

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General CG Discussion / Siger Studio crashes max

« on: 2019-05-31, 15:42:45 »

Have anybody encountered similar issue? I am on max 2018 and when opening lab scenes for Corona, 3ds max always crashes

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[Max] I need help! / How to create this kind of turntable

« on: 2019-05-23, 13:36:09 »

Hi

we have a client that wants us to create this kind of turntable for a mattress https://www.karlmartini.com/work. How would you approach that in Corona? is that only jpg sequence with 2 camera flyarounds ? one on horizontal and one on vertical axis?

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General CG Discussion / Recommendations on 3dsmax version

« on: 2019-05-10, 15:35:08 »

I am thinking of upgrading max to newer version or reinstall current one (2016) because it has been slow lately(freezing material editor, slow IR startup etc maybe because tons of scripts and plugins) so maybe a clean install with no plugins and scripts would help. But if you guys have good experience with 2016+ versions I would like to hear it. I have tried 2020 and it feels fine but yeah I haven´t installed anything but Corona for that one.

Thanks

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General CG Discussion / Cloud or NAS storage

« on: 2019-04-15, 09:10:36 »

Which one of the latter do you prefer and why? Will be thankful for any of your experience.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / CCC not displayed correctly in viewport

« on: 2019-02-27, 11:30:26 »

When using CoronaColorCorrect node with bitmap in real world scale mode , display map in viewport displays CCC in different scale (100x larger) from the base bitmap

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General CG Discussion / How to set up sharing for remote work

« on: 2019-01-30, 08:58:24 »

Hi

I am asking here for advice - I want to set up file sharing for my colleague so that he is able to work remotely and avoid archiving the whole max file with textures etc. Is there any simple way to do that? What I am aiming for is this - I have a ongoing job (maxfile, textures, proxies) that I was working on, he opens it on his computer, makes changes and saves back to my harddrive/shared location

Thanks

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General CG Discussion / White balance questions

« on: 2019-01-10, 11:50:18 »

Hi guys

I would like to reproduce reality as close as possible in my works but over the time I really haven´t figured out how to shoot interiors where no natural light is present.

There are two options for this - to maintain whites to be white I let main artificial lights (spotlights, ceiling light) to be pure white color, and then let accent lights (led stripes) to be warm white 3600K for example. This results in no need to touch white balance (or only a little) . However this is not very similar to how the real world works right? In real world for example in bathroom with no natural light all light sources are approximately same temperature - if this is simulated in Corona, white balance should be adjusted accordingly, but then render starts to look really weird - it gets darker and colors are not accurate.

How do you approach such cases ? Are you faking the temperatures so they fit the mood you are after? or use real world values ?

Does Corona white balance work the same way as in real world cameras?

Thanks

Thanks

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General CG Discussion / Siger XSMP help

« on: 2018-11-27, 13:19:05 »

Hi

I can´t get material preview rendering to work. Sooner when I clicked render material preview, scene opened and preview was rendering, now the only thing that happens is that it seems like the scene is opening but nothing happens. Could anybody help with this?

Thanks