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[Max] I need help! / Re: Forest Edge in Vantage doesn't seem to work.

« on: 2025-04-04, 15:38:46 »

Thank you, Avi.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Forest Edge in Vantage doesn't seem to work.

« on: 2025-04-02, 16:41:04 »

Anyone?

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: How often do you render your materials to maps?

« on: 2025-04-01, 18:02:28 »

Recently I had to because I needed to use a material with tileMap in Vantage, which is not supported yet.
Other than that I wouldn't.

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[Max] I need help! / Forest Edge in Vantage doesn't seem to work.

« on: 2025-04-01, 15:42:30 »

Hi there,

Nowadays is hard to know where to post a question.
I use Corona in Max, with forest pack. When using vantage, forest edge doesn't seem to work, even when opacity is enabled as explained here:

https://forums.chaos.com/forum/chaos-vantage/chaos-vantage-wishlist/1117820-forest-edge-please

Does it work?
Is it a Corona issue? A forest pack issue? or a vantage issue?

Thank you.
Guido.

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Gallery / Re: Minimal Space – Exploration Playground

« on: 2025-04-01, 14:55:51 »

How did you map this wooden piece here?
Just an unwrap or did you use a paint software?

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Gallery / Re: Minimal Space – Exploration Playground

« on: 2025-03-28, 14:00:23 »

wow.
Amazing work.

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Hardware / Re: AMD 9950x

« on: 2025-03-17, 21:13:33 »

I recently bought my 9950x.

After some tests (testing with 4 of my scenes), the improvement over the 7950x is 16-18%.
(Scene 1: 16.63% improvement
Scene 2: 17.71% improvement
Scene 3: 22.32% improvement
Scene 4: 16.44% improvement)

BUT, I didn't have the 7950x overclocked because the temps were already high at stock.
AMD claims the 9950x is more efficient so I enabled PBO, which led to a higher difference.

Hope this helps.

How is life with the 9950x so far Lupaz? I'm considering to build a new system with that cpu. What amount of ram and motherboard are you using?

All good. No issues that I can relate to the new CPU.
I have 64 MB of RAM. My motherboard is a GIGABYTE B650
I am considering adding 64 more RAM to be honest.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Interactive rendering slows down.

« on: 2025-02-16, 01:51:26 »

After updating to Windows 11 24H2, I encountered a serious issue with Corona Renderer. During rendering, my computer would completely freeze, making it impossible to use.
However, I found a solution! I installed the Windows 11 update from the Beta Channel (KB5052086), and it completely resolved the freezing problem.
If anyone else is facing similar issues, I highly recommend giving this update a try. Hope this helps!

Could you post a link for everyone else please?

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General CG Discussion / Re: max 2025 selection of objects goes wrong

« on: 2025-02-14, 15:45:15 »

Try this:
https://cganimator.com/csgpuhittest/


More info: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MeTXrEnkV/

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona pattern + randomiser

« on: 2025-02-13, 14:39:01 »

Thanks Tom. That's a shame. Is there any possibility this feature will come to pattern? Essentially allowing an interlocking non square source shape. It would need to offset alternate rows by 50%. I cant seem to get the randomiser to do this even with stepping, unless Im missing something?

https://chaoscorona.ideas.aha.io/ideas/CMAX-I-47
It was declined.

"Tom Grimes
Reply | Sep 9, 2024
Unfortunately, this falls into the "practically impossible" category, in that there is likely some way to do it (so it isn't "impossible even in theory"), but it would take a massive investment of development time to get there. It would have to be an entirely different system, not just a modification of what is there already. This means we are not planning on considering this, sorry. The same reply has been given a few times over on the forum when such a suggestion has come up."

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[Max] I need help! / Re: CShading_SourceColor

« on: 2025-02-08, 15:16:57 »

Don't look at what's displayed in the viewport - it shows wrong colours. You need to save SourceColor element to the disk and then compare. Save it with automatic gamma, not with linear override.

Ah! Yeah. That works.
Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: CShading_SourceColor

« on: 2025-02-07, 16:45:55 »

Hi all.

I'm not sure I understand what Romullus said.

How do I correct the color of the SourceColor in photoshop so it looks like the actual bitmaps?

See attached please

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona 12 and Vantage

« on: 2025-02-05, 17:08:20 »

Hi Francesco, translucency is supported. Please enable both "thin shell" and translucency:

This link would need to be updated then, no?
https://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Corona+for+3ds+Max+Features

Regarding translucency: I noticed that the conversion from Max to Vantage is not 1:1. A 0.1 translucency gives a darker result in vantage than in Max as far as I can tell.
I'm thinking on using a linear float controller to control several translucency values before exporting to vantage.
Do you think that's a good workflow?
Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Forest pack edge mode not working well with IR

« on: 2025-01-24, 15:15:35 »

Hi,

I was able to reproduce this issue on my end and have logged it in our system to be further reviewed by our devs. Meanwhile, try to use Chaos Scatter if you can.

(Report ID=CMAX-1424)

I believe this is still happening with the update 1 hotfix 1.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 13 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2025-01-17, 14:59:45 »

I wish Ondra would chime in at least. Having him again would be so good.