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[Max] I need help! / [solved] Color bleeding from HDRI doesn't seem enough

« on: 2017-08-02, 19:53:05 »

Hi all,

I'm doing some tests with HDRI and shadow catcher.

In the attached image, I feel there should be more color bleeding from the HDRI onto the sphere.
What would be the best workflow to achieve that?

Thank you.

137

Hardware / Don't recommend Ryzen

« on: 2017-07-05, 17:01:54 »

Hi all,

Just a short message.
I bought ryzen 7 1800x with mobo asrock taichi.
If you think you can overclock it at their advertised boost clock speeds of 4mhz, think again.

At 3.8mhz it's still unstable in my case. It could be memory, but I never had problems with intel...

138

[Max] I need help! / CIE keeps asking for email address and password.

« on: 2017-07-04, 00:55:24 »

I moved corona image editor to my editing workstation. (it's portable, no?)
Every time I open it says "no active license found on this computer"...yada yada, and then I need to input my login info. It's like it's not saving the info on the computer.

Any advice?

Thanks.

139

[Max] General Discussion / CPU temps higher when denoising

« on: 2017-06-28, 16:47:22 »

Hi all,

I recently built a Ryzen workstation, overclocked. So I try to be aware of the temperatures when rendering to see if there's more room for a higher clock speed.

I noticed while rendering the temperatures are actually low. But when denoising they jump quite a lot.

Is this normal?
Does this mean that while rendering the CPU is not being used 100%? (The task manager shows 100% though)

140

[Max] I need help! / Max's UI laggy while on interactive rendering

« on: 2017-06-06, 18:44:41 »

Hi there,

I'm using my new Ryzen based workstation.
I'm noticing that spinners, and other interactive UI things (like selecting the value in a field) are laggy (take a second or two to respond) when interactive rendering is working. It makes sense obviously, but it wasn't this noticeable on my other computer.

Is there anything I can do to leave some room for processing UI actions while on IR?
Also, is it possible to make IR respond faster on heavy scenes?

Thanks

141

Hardware / My new planned build. Any suggestions or warnings are appreciated.

« on: 2017-05-05, 23:38:26 »

Hi all,

I'm planing on building the following.
If the experts here can take a look, that would be great so I don't make a stupid mistake :)

Case be quiet! Dark base 900 $167.85
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X $369.99
ASRock X370 Taichi AM4 ATX AMD Motherboard $189.99
HyperX Fury 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 2400MHz DRAM (Desktop Memory) CL15 1.2V Black DIMM (288-pin) HX424C15FBK2/32 $266.99
Corsair Hydro Series H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler $124.99
Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound $7.99
EVGA SuperNOVA NEX750G 750 Watt G2 ATX 12V Power $89.99
Geforce Titan X (already in use in current build, and will buy ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 Overclocked 3GB as replacement as I'll use the older computer remotely) $174.99
Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal SSD $200
Windows 10 64 pro $99.99

Total: 1,690

So what do you think?
I wouldn't mind spending more if it's worth it. Do you have suggestions?
Am I forgetting anything?

Thanks!

142

[Max] I need help! / [solved] Fire to look just like the texture map

« on: 2017-04-15, 19:53:23 »

Hi all,

I'm looking to have fire on my scene.
I'm using a photo with opacity on a plane.

It seems that, no matter what exposure I have, I can't make it look on the rendering the same way as the photo.
Basically I want to have the pixels coming from that map unchanged after rendered.

I'm using a CoronaLightMtl, which seems to clamp the colors making it planer (washed out).


Any suggestions?

Thanks!

143

[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Load images into Corona VFB?

« on: 2017-03-24, 15:31:12 »

I really like the corona post tools. So I would like to load an image (EXR or not) into the VFB.
Any way to do this?

I've search on the forum but couldn't find anything.

144

[Max] I need help! / Vector maps issues?

« on: 2017-03-03, 18:54:43 »

Hi there,
Are there known issues with vector maps?

Thanks.

145

[Max] I need help! / Just installed 3ds max 2017 - Anything I need to turn off/on from defaults?

« on: 2016-12-28, 21:11:57 »

Hi there,

I just moved from Max 2014 to Max 2017.
Do you suggest changing any Max's default parameter such as exposure control?
Or the corona VFB overrides everything?

146

General CG Discussion / Quick question about displacement equivalent feature

« on: 2016-12-27, 16:38:17 »

Hi there,

I was wondering if now a days there's anything better than displacement.
Maybe a feature I'm not aware of...
Specifically I need to create wood siding in a house.
Like for example this: https://www.google.com/search?q=wood+siding&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=960&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6h6vj2ZTRAhUC0IMKHcqZCt4Q_AUIBygC#imgrc=o6BZ60S-SlP1pM%3A

Thanks.

147

[Max] I need help! / Add samples to sky/portals

« on: 2016-05-07, 00:48:03 »

Hi,

Is there a way to increase the samples for the sky?
Even with sky portals it seems that it adds noise to the scene and cannot get rid of it after multiple passes. I tried in multiple scenes.
Glass is thin.

Thanks.

148

[Max] I need help! / Removing indirect light noise from existent render

« on: 2016-05-03, 15:07:06 »

Hi,

I've been rendering an image for many hours. The indirect light pass has lots of noise and it's not going to disappear, ever.
Is it possible to change the settings (not sure what), and resume the render to correct that noise?

FYI: The render is mostly dark, with dark textures and materials.

Thanks.

149

[Max] General Discussion / Is corona compatible with Max 2017?

« on: 2016-04-22, 04:24:18 »

Is corona compatible with max 2017 or we would need to wait for a new version?

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[Max] I need help! / Fireflies case

« on: 2016-02-23, 15:40:38 »

Hi there.

I found that the 2 sinks made of glass were causing fireflies on several areas in the render.

Do you know why? I kind-of need those sinks made of glass...

Please see below the "before" with the glass sinks and the "after" without the sinks.

Thanks!