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[Max] General Discussion / Re: CShading_Lightmix Render Element Issue

« on: 2024-12-05, 17:08:18 »

Nobody with a hint or tip or advise?

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[Max] General Discussion / CShading_Lightmix Render Element Issue

« on: 2024-11-29, 19:44:57 »

Corona 12.1  - I have just noticed that CShading_Lightmix is not saved within CXR file. It's working correctly in VFB (I can see it in the list and edit it) but I cannot see it in the Lightmix list when CXR is loaded in Corona Image Editor. Am I doing something wrong?

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona 10/11 - Corona Render Assets loading very slow

« on: 2024-06-25, 11:19:18 »

I was hoping 3dsmax 2025 and Corona 12 RC1 will fix this issue, but its the same.....Loading Corona Assets......Is very slow.

The exact changes a version, including v12 RC1, brings is listed in the changelog.

The only remaning, known as of today, slowdown when "Loading Corona assets" is displayed is related to cloth/garmet maker in 3ds Max and has nothing to do with Corona.
An investigation done yesterday has confirmed this. Corona is just unlucky that during this long loading Corona assets is written.

I have disabled loading of cloth/garment plugins in 3ds max 2024.2 and the issue is still present with Corona 11 HF2.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona 10/11 - Corona Render Assets loading very slow

« on: 2024-02-14, 23:10:10 »

I will also do my best to post sample scene for further investigation.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Intel CPU/GPU AI Denoising Issues

« on: 2024-01-31, 13:10:51 »

Hi Tom and Avi,

Thank you both for replies. I'm putting together all required info and will post it aasap.

Thanks!

Peter

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Intel CPU/GPU AI Denoising Issues

« on: 2024-01-30, 15:29:12 »

Hello Corona Renderer Team,

Recently, I noticed strange behaviour of Intel CPU/ GPU AI denoiser. The level of denoising is dropping randomly, even when rendering the same scene twice in a row without any scene actions.

Here is a 20 minutes preview, all Corona settings are intact for both images. Image A has a desired denoise effect, image B is the exactly same settings but visibly lower quality. This randomly happens only with version 11, without and with hotfix installed. When I render image B again few minutes later without any scene changes, I get the same result as A.

FYI, Corona High Quality Denoiser works perfectly but at a time costs.

Peter

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Price Increase

« on: 2024-01-16, 19:35:18 »

Yes, they're indeed doing favour to us...

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Price Increase

« on: 2024-01-11, 15:17:21 »

I'm biting my tongue hardly to keep it on topic. I'm trying to keep all costs at reasonable level, so I'm considering purchasing Solo Yearly license. It's €322.80 (plus 20% VAT), but it's still huge saving comparing to Solo monthly for €66*12 = €792!!!

The worst thing is that I don't have a feeling that I'm getting better software for bigger price. Support is terrible, Corona seems to be buggier than before so the only thing that's keeping me using Corona Renderer is the amount of work to be finished this year…

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Corona Layered Material ignoring Show Shaded Material in Viewport

« on: 2023-12-21, 11:23:01 »

Thank you! Have a peaceful holiday time.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Corona Layered Material ignoring Show Shaded Material in Viewport

« on: 2023-12-08, 11:55:21 »

I have an issue with displaying textures in shaded viewports in both Corona 10 and 11. When I add Corona Layered Material to poly object, the texture is not displayed and is only blank, ignoring activated Show Shaded Material in Viewport.

Can you confirm?

Peter

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona 10 - Corona Render Assets loading very slow

« on: 2023-08-11, 11:22:56 »

Hi Maru,

Thank you for your reply.

To your notes:
1/ This slowdown is happening with every scene previously saved and rendered with Corona 9 engine.
2/ iTools plugin: No
3/ Scenes and assets loading: Local SSD drive
4/ Textures: less than 100 textures, below 4K resolution
5/ Lowering texture resolution did not help.

Hi all, thanks for reporting this. Currently, we are not aware of any similar reports, and we haven't noticed such slowdowns in our internal scenes. If possible, please send us any problematic scenes over at https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
It would be great if you could attach a scene saved with Corona 9 so that we could compare the V9 and V10 times.

I have some additional questions/considerations:
- Are you using iToo plugins in your scenes? (we had some similar reports in the past which were related to iToo)
- Are you loading your scenes and all assets from local drivers or from network drives/gdrive/dropbox?
- Are there many hi-res textures in your scenes? (for example 100 x 8k textures)
- Does lowering all textures resolutions under Viewports Configuration to a super low value like 128px make any difference?

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[Max] General Discussion / Corona 10/11 - Corona Render Assets loading very slow

« on: 2023-08-08, 00:39:35 »

Hello,

When opening scenes with Corona Renderer 10 Hotfix 1 in 3ds max 2023/2024, the scene is loading extremely slow with the message "Loading Corona assets". It takes several minutes to load relatively simple scene with few Corona materials. And it basically freezes 3ds max window.

This did not happen with version 9.

Anybody having the same issue?

Update: the same issue is with Corona 11 HotFix 1 under 3ds max 2024.2

Peter

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Subscription Update by CHAOS

« on: 2022-11-13, 22:32:25 »

So, I have to pay double for monthly subscription. I cannot afford to pay 400 Eur next month for one year. Of course, I can save 32 Eur every month so next year I will have enough money for another year license. But now, Chaos just put me in very bad situation. As a freelancer, I have to save every Euro, I'm not in position of just spending 380 Euro over regular costs and fees.

And, as other users, I'm not interested in other Chaos stuff, including Cosmos, which I used ZERO times since it was included in Corona Renderer.

Why don't give us time to make a decision?

Peter

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Postprocess settings back to default in Corona 9

« on: 2022-10-31, 21:21:24 »

I can confirm the bug in here. Corona 9 and Max 2023.2
I have to load postprocess preset with every loaded scene.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Subscription Update by CHAOS

« on: 2022-10-31, 15:15:20 »

I'll also add that I've requested to downgrade to solo already, and it hasn't been done yet. 2 replies from Chaos on my ticket trying to upsell me still. You guys sound like a fucking cable company that can't take no for an answer, and honestly it's making me want to just drop Corona entirely or even bootleg it out of spite.

At the very least solo should have the ability to allow installation on 2 computers; I think that would please a lot of us that are pissed off. I understand price increases, expected them when Chaos took the wheel, and loved that up until now the promise of not raising prices was great under a new, young fresh company created by those in the same field. But throw us a fucking bone here, please.

Hi,

This is what I got from Chaos Support:

The way you can downgrade to SOLO is to disable your automatic renewal. Steps below:
 
1. Go to my.chaos.com

2. Go to Products > Active products

3. Click on the product of your choice

4. Next to the Auto-renewal button : click on Cancel Subscription

5.  You will see a pop-up window asking you to confirm - click on Cancel Subscription

Once your subscription expires you can then purchase Corona Solo from here: https://corona-renderer.com/prices-licensing

Hope this helps.

Peter