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General CG Discussion / Vehicle rig

« on: 2025-01-18, 06:59:55 »

What do you guys use or recommend for Max for a vehicle rig and simulation? Currently I use drivemaster 1.4 to follow spline paths. But it's always a headache. Always end up with issues especially with curves, car isn't smooth but rachety on a curve no matter how heavy I make the spline. I tried mad car, but that was a real headache just to set up. Hoping to find something use friendly and good.

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[Max] I need help! / GI Flickering in animation

« on: 2025-01-14, 15:50:05 »

I wanted to see what everyone thought before I decide if this is something I should send to Chaos as a bug of some sorts. I use primarily 4k for secondary like I did a long time ago, but now I get Flickering in GI on a lot of scenes. Back in the day I switched from UHD to 4K because I was getting much faster calculations and better quality. I never got flickering from 4K before. I tried same scenes with UHD, and am getting much less flickering but still on some scenes still getting really bad flickering. Working on really big scenes now and in the past I can confidently say this was really never an issue before. Seems like with the newest Corona I'm having a lot of GI flickering issues, am I the only one?

Corona 12 Update 1
Max 2025.3
Tried 4k & UHD
Set to Animation (flicker-free)

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[Max] General Discussion / Path guiding?

« on: 2024-12-24, 05:44:19 »

How come Corona never got Path guiding? Vray has it, I've tried it and it makes quite a difference.

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[Max] I need help! / Crashing when rendering animation

« on: 2024-11-23, 19:08:13 »

I am using Max 2025.3 with Corona 12 Update 1. Works good till you render animation.  Crashes right out of Max. I'm going to downgrade to Corona 12 Hotfix 1 and see if it's to do with the latest Corona.  Anyone else having crashing with latest Corona?

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Off-Topic / What is the best remote access?

« on: 2024-08-03, 19:02:34 »

I'm looking for a good Remote access. I know windows has its own and maybe that would be the best choice. I used TeamViewer back in the day, that was good but not sure nowadays with all the options. I would like to remotely login to my 3 render machines from my laptop when I am mobile. I would also like it if I can use the workstation at my office on my laptop like I'm actually there, but not sure if they have latency down enough to work like that. I see remote access apps like Parsec say they are low latency. My office is on Fiber so it has low ping and fast speeds.

What would you suggest?
What do you use?
Can you work in real-time on the remote machine your connecting too?

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General CG Discussion / 3ds Max Sketchup Importer

« on: 2024-06-05, 02:56:23 »

So 3ds Max 2024 has gotten rid of the Legacy Sketchup Importer and replaced it with only the new importer which doesn't retain linework on models.  So it's totally useless... Does anyone know of a good plugin for 3ds Max to import SketchUp models with all the linework?

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Hardware / Dual CPU Render Machine

« on: 2023-08-04, 18:24:46 »

Why does it seem Dual CPU EPYC machines don't work well with Corona. Or any dual CPU system for that matter. I was looking at some render machines for animation.  Seems Dual 128 Core EPYC systems would be the way to go but even Corona Benchmark shows dual EPYC 9654 not doing much better than 1 64 core Threadripper.

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Hardware / Which Monitor is best?

« on: 2023-07-01, 01:42:41 »

I've been looking at new monitor for one of he main systems.  We have a few Dell U3415W monitors, and they had good color accuracy and worked well.  I was looking at ordering either a Dell U4924DW or the Samsung Odyssey Ark.  The Ark is a VA panel though and not sure how accurate the colors will be vs the Dell.  It is nice and big and has great HDR though. The Dell might be a better option because it will probably match the other monitors in the studio better, and it's IPS.  What do you think? Is 4k still an issue? We had know issues with our 1440p Dell Screens.

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[Max] General Discussion / V-Ray 6 - Is Corona getting these awesome features?

« on: 2022-06-07, 19:57:55 »

The new V-Ray 6 features are incredible!  Is Corona getting these features? I've been asking for a geopattern like tool, looks like vray is getting it now.

https://youtu.be/TDFVesb3pQU

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Geopattern-like tool & Parallax Bump

« on: 2022-05-14, 17:36:38 »

I hope now that V8 is out and development on v9 will begin we can finally get Geopattern-like tool & Parallax Bump.  Both are features we can not live without anymore after using them with Fstorm.  Geopattern has replaced a lot of scattering and even displacement mapping objects, and Parallax bump has replaced bump and normal mapping and almost most cases all displacement mapping even in some closeups.  I hope Corona Dev's take a serious look at these two features now.

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[Max] General Discussion / Corona Bitmap Mapping Missing?

« on: 2022-02-12, 17:01:28 »

Hi,

I've been away from corona for a while and just came back and installed version 7.  This might be a stupid question, but Corona Bitmap seems to be missing the mapping options for Texture, Explicit, Vertex, Planar from object, Planar from World?  Was it moved? I attached a screen shot.

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Geopattern / CoronaPattern?

« on: 2022-01-11, 20:22:26 »

I've been using the Fstorm GeoPattern, and I can not live without it now.  It's insane the amount of useful situations this pattern maker can be used for.  Completely changed the way I do things.  I see it's on the list of things to do, but is this being pushed more? I feel like this is one of the most powerful features anyone could use.

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General CG Discussion / Vray Quality

« on: 2021-10-30, 19:58:54 »

I just wanted to have a conversation on Vrays Quality vs say Corona or Fstorm.  Every time I see a render with Vray now I can tell it's a Vray render and looks, well like CGI.  Other renderers like Corona look way more realistic.  Now I know Vray does some amazing realistic rendering for Movies, but I'm talking Archviz.  I'm not sure if it's the GI or the Tone mapping but I recently tried Vray and it was not even close to as realistic as Corona. There translucency for leaves and such I find terribly fake compared to Corona, you also seem to loose a lot of reflection with it.  Not to mention it crashed a lot.  Another thing, I see everywhere that Vray is much faster to render especially for animations.  I have the opposite conclusion, Corona always seemed to render faster and cleaner. I'm just surprised since Chaos Group owns both, I'm sure they test scenes against each other and see the results? Just thought it would be a interesting conversation.

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[Max] General Discussion / 3ds max batch render - export to bat

« on: 2021-06-07, 20:15:51 »

I use Batch Render all the time for multiple camera animations.  But I never used Export to .Bat in batch render.  Is there any benefit to it? Does it save memory or render faster, just wanted to hear peoples experience with it.

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[Max] I need help! / Rendering people into an animation

« on: 2021-04-11, 00:36:22 »

I have an animation we are going to render, the client is not sure if they want people in the shot.  Is there a way to render the animation, then later render just the people for in that animation but still get there reflections and shadows on the surrounding objects? Sounds like something shadow catcher is for, but not sure how to get there exact reflections on the objects in the scene with certain reflective surfaces, or people behind refractive surfaces?