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[Max] I need help! / Re: VFB / Tonemapping seems to randomly reset itself to default values?
« on: 2022-12-07, 10:58:32 »
Oh that is great, I download it and see what happens! Thanks for letting me know :)
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[Max] I need help! / VFB / Tonemapping seems to randomly reset itself to default values?
« on: 2022-12-07, 10:25:00 »
Hi!
Not sure if anyone has had this issue or perhaps knows what I might be doing to cause this, however I've noticed (what currently appears to be fairly random) that when I open a scene for some reason the VFB/Tonemapping is all reset to default values and any extra curves or LUT that I have added have been removed.
This has happened now quite a few times and I've just learnt to always save a VFB file to help prevent any headaches, but I just wondered if this is something anyone had noticed at all?
Cheers!
Not sure if anyone has had this issue or perhaps knows what I might be doing to cause this, however I've noticed (what currently appears to be fairly random) that when I open a scene for some reason the VFB/Tonemapping is all reset to default values and any extra curves or LUT that I have added have been removed.
This has happened now quite a few times and I've just learnt to always save a VFB file to help prevent any headaches, but I just wondered if this is something anyone had noticed at all?
Cheers!
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General CG Discussion / Re: Where do you download Phoenix - Premium Sub
« on: 2022-12-03, 18:00:40 »
Well I hope I am not the best person to test it anymore but if I feel like I am in a rough ride of nights I'll send an email and you can give me something to test! haha
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General CG Discussion / Re: Where do you download Phoenix - Premium Sub
« on: 2022-12-01, 13:43:15 »
Hey Maru,
Thanks for that too,
I think its a mix of "maybe" it being not THAT obvious but also more likely that my Son has not been sleeping well recently and having a large amount of sleep deprivation + work overload is frying my senses a bit haha.
Again, thank-you for the help :)
Thanks for that too,
I think its a mix of "maybe" it being not THAT obvious but also more likely that my Son has not been sleeping well recently and having a large amount of sleep deprivation + work overload is frying my senses a bit haha.
Again, thank-you for the help :)
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General CG Discussion / Re: Where do you download Phoenix - Premium Sub
« on: 2022-11-30, 12:12:13 »
OK just in case anyone else has this problem, I contacted the Chaos team and I was given a download link which has worked.
I've then had another look sort of thinking "how would I get to that???" well it turns out there are two... I guess one being "obvious" way of getting to it lol but essentially at the top of the page of your chaos page go to "support" at the top and then there is a download your product link or the more obvious one at the top of My Chaos Active Products there is a link at the top called downloads.
Not sure if its because I am sleep deprived from looking after my son who isn't sleeping well haha or the navigation feels a little hidden, either way I've found what I needed and I had a super quick response (6 mins) so yeah. Pleased with the service :)
I've then had another look sort of thinking "how would I get to that???" well it turns out there are two... I guess one being "obvious" way of getting to it lol but essentially at the top of the page of your chaos page go to "support" at the top and then there is a download your product link or the more obvious one at the top of My Chaos Active Products there is a link at the top called downloads.
Not sure if its because I am sleep deprived from looking after my son who isn't sleeping well haha or the navigation feels a little hidden, either way I've found what I needed and I had a super quick response (6 mins) so yeah. Pleased with the service :)
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General CG Discussion / Where do you download Phoenix - Premium Sub
« on: 2022-11-30, 11:11:10 »
Hello,
I must be totally blind! haha I can't for the life of me find where/how to download Phoniex (covered in the premium subscription right?) to install it. Going through "My Chaos" I just go round in circles of Corona 9 Hotfix or Corona 9 download links OR Chaos Trial download which only gives me options for downloading VRAY.
I'm sure given that I am paying for the Premium sub that I am doing something stupid so apologies but given that I am on a client deadline I thought just best to ask.
I was hoping that there would be a simple upfront download all supported/covered plugins under my account but that doesn't appear to be the case. Any help in this would be awesome.
Cheers!
I must be totally blind! haha I can't for the life of me find where/how to download Phoniex (covered in the premium subscription right?) to install it. Going through "My Chaos" I just go round in circles of Corona 9 Hotfix or Corona 9 download links OR Chaos Trial download which only gives me options for downloading VRAY.
I'm sure given that I am paying for the Premium sub that I am doing something stupid so apologies but given that I am on a client deadline I thought just best to ask.
I was hoping that there would be a simple upfront download all supported/covered plugins under my account but that doesn't appear to be the case. Any help in this would be awesome.
Cheers!
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Gallery / Re: Ananya
« on: 2022-01-13, 12:58:58 »
Really like the 2nd and 3rd shot. I've done so little exterior work that seeing work like this is very inspiring. Great work to who was involved :)
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[Max] General Discussion / Re: 4K caxhe does seem to crush colours
« on: 2022-01-07, 11:11:05 »
Hi sorry to add on to this thread, with regards to the 4K is there any documentation or information with regards to the settings applied and if there are any real benefits for tweaking the settings for either the Granularity or Quality?
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Hardware / Sorry for the basic question: How to build a network?
« on: 2021-12-15, 18:21:51 »
Hi all,
Firstly I want to start with an apology for what must be the most basic question of what is possibly a long winded answer and I don't expect any lengthy reply. I do ask however if anyone is able to share a link, video, PDF etc of really a step by step guide on building a render network, from the hardware (not so fussed about the specs used in the nodes etc, just more so what is needed for it to work) and then the guide of putting it all together so it is up and running with all machines communicating.
Now I appreciate other people may be wanting to know how to do something similar so what I will do is post a link to a page which I have found quite helpful, although its still not "hand holding" enough for me to understand what exactly I need and to do to set up a small network.
https://www.cgdirector.com/how-to-build-your-own-render-farm/
My situation is that right now I am not desperate to buy a small render network for myself, however with things hopefully moving in a positive way I may need to look outside the realms of just locally rendering my work overnight on my current machine.
Ideally if I could come up with a system where I can add more machines in the future that could link up to a server (essentially your typical business model I guess) then that would be great, although perhaps for a short term fix a way of just connecting another render node/workstation to my machine to pick up a job etc that would be good to know too.
Thanks in advance :)
PS I have tried searching the forum but it seems that everyone asking the network question already knows more than I do so their questions are not basic enough for me...
Firstly I want to start with an apology for what must be the most basic question of what is possibly a long winded answer and I don't expect any lengthy reply. I do ask however if anyone is able to share a link, video, PDF etc of really a step by step guide on building a render network, from the hardware (not so fussed about the specs used in the nodes etc, just more so what is needed for it to work) and then the guide of putting it all together so it is up and running with all machines communicating.
Now I appreciate other people may be wanting to know how to do something similar so what I will do is post a link to a page which I have found quite helpful, although its still not "hand holding" enough for me to understand what exactly I need and to do to set up a small network.
https://www.cgdirector.com/how-to-build-your-own-render-farm/
My situation is that right now I am not desperate to buy a small render network for myself, however with things hopefully moving in a positive way I may need to look outside the realms of just locally rendering my work overnight on my current machine.
Ideally if I could come up with a system where I can add more machines in the future that could link up to a server (essentially your typical business model I guess) then that would be great, although perhaps for a short term fix a way of just connecting another render node/workstation to my machine to pick up a job etc that would be good to know too.
Thanks in advance :)
PS I have tried searching the forum but it seems that everyone asking the network question already knows more than I do so their questions are not basic enough for me...
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[Max] I need help! / Render Object selection with reflections of object in scene
« on: 2021-10-20, 17:42:00 »
Hi,
Sorry but I can't figure this one out and its driving me a little nuts!
I have a scene where I need to replace an objects shader (configurator) numerous times. Now the objects in question obviously reflect in other elements in within the scene and I want to be able to capture those reflections within the object render selection.
So as an example.
I have white room with mild reflective properties, enough to see a faint reflection of the orange ball that sits in the middle of the scene. I now want to make that orange ball black with blue stripes, I apply the new shader and want to render the ball. However the reflection within the roomset is still of the orange ball, so without needing to render the whole scene, I just select the ball and hit render. This then includes the reflections cast on the rest of the room, so in photoshop I can just drop the new layer in which is of the ball and its captured reflections and overlay it.
I'm trying to get away from relying on FStorm (having to work with some other visualisers which do not use this engine) which does this feature perfectly with its render object mask in the kernel settings and I have no doubt Corona can do this as well, I just can't for the life of me find out how. The best I have found is of the shadow catcher, but I can only assume this could work if I applied the that shadow Catcher material to the WHOLE scene and render it like that? which just seems like a huge pain to set up as for each element I need to render I would have to have a shadow catcher variant of the scene specifically for it.
Any advice on this?
If I am allowed I'll include the image which demonstrates exactly what I am after.
https://fstormrender.ru/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/RenderMaskM.jpg
Any help on this would be hugely appreciated.
Sorry but I can't figure this one out and its driving me a little nuts!
I have a scene where I need to replace an objects shader (configurator) numerous times. Now the objects in question obviously reflect in other elements in within the scene and I want to be able to capture those reflections within the object render selection.
So as an example.
I have white room with mild reflective properties, enough to see a faint reflection of the orange ball that sits in the middle of the scene. I now want to make that orange ball black with blue stripes, I apply the new shader and want to render the ball. However the reflection within the roomset is still of the orange ball, so without needing to render the whole scene, I just select the ball and hit render. This then includes the reflections cast on the rest of the room, so in photoshop I can just drop the new layer in which is of the ball and its captured reflections and overlay it.
I'm trying to get away from relying on FStorm (having to work with some other visualisers which do not use this engine) which does this feature perfectly with its render object mask in the kernel settings and I have no doubt Corona can do this as well, I just can't for the life of me find out how. The best I have found is of the shadow catcher, but I can only assume this could work if I applied the that shadow Catcher material to the WHOLE scene and render it like that? which just seems like a huge pain to set up as for each element I need to render I would have to have a shadow catcher variant of the scene specifically for it.
Any advice on this?
If I am allowed I'll include the image which demonstrates exactly what I am after.
https://fstormrender.ru/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/RenderMaskM.jpg
Any help on this would be hugely appreciated.
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[Max] Feature Requests / Material Conversion - Refraction level set to 1
« on: 2021-10-08, 18:27:25 »
Hi,
Maybe I am doing something wrong so apologies if so!
I am converting materials from FStorm to Corona which by the script I think basically means FStorm > Corona Legacy > Corona Physical (order of conversion when running the script and then running the corona converter again to get everything to move over to the new physical material.
In short the issue I am noticing is that the corona converter is making the new materials have a refraction amount of 1 which means its essentially like glass. I was wondering if it would make sense to have this setting set to a default of 0 or an option to approve that setting as a default?
I hope that makes sense! Its been a long week haha.
Maybe I am doing something wrong so apologies if so!
I am converting materials from FStorm to Corona which by the script I think basically means FStorm > Corona Legacy > Corona Physical (order of conversion when running the script and then running the corona converter again to get everything to move over to the new physical material.
In short the issue I am noticing is that the corona converter is making the new materials have a refraction amount of 1 which means its essentially like glass. I was wondering if it would make sense to have this setting set to a default of 0 or an option to approve that setting as a default?
I hope that makes sense! Its been a long week haha.
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General CG Discussion / Re: 3D Model Licensing
« on: 2021-02-10, 16:29:18 »
Thanks James for clearing it up a little further.
I had written a longer reply and then I checked my email to see what has been said and it looks like the editorial is there purely because of in this instance the IKEA sofa is a brand and has its own copywrite. So essentially the author doesn't have claim to the furniture's design etc. However it is up to us the "buyer" to understand if we buy this we are able to actually use this outside of the editorial license agreement, basically do we think its safe and legal to do so based on our own understanding of how it'll be used. In short, if I buy the model and use it for my own portfolio or even as lets say I were to put it in a commercially used image such as marketing material for a real estate company wanting to sell their apartments and wanted something of a cotemporary design, do I think the inclusion of the sofa would be something IKEA themselves would not like legally.
So really the editorial licensing caveat appears to be a bit more of a liability cover for companies such as turbosquid. Atleast from what I can tell. I'll post the reply below in whole so if anyone else would like to see then its hear and who knows you may have your own take on it!
"Thank you for contacting TurboSquid Support. Content marked with “Editorial Use Only” restrictions depict a product owned by another company (i.e, Ikea). You may only use this content for news or if you have permission from the company. It is up to you to determine if you need permission to use the product for any other reason.
It is up to you, your business, and your legal counsel to determine whether you have clearance for using the model for non editorial purposes. If you do not require a branded or editorial model, you may wish to filter your search to exclude branded or editorial content."
I had written a longer reply and then I checked my email to see what has been said and it looks like the editorial is there purely because of in this instance the IKEA sofa is a brand and has its own copywrite. So essentially the author doesn't have claim to the furniture's design etc. However it is up to us the "buyer" to understand if we buy this we are able to actually use this outside of the editorial license agreement, basically do we think its safe and legal to do so based on our own understanding of how it'll be used. In short, if I buy the model and use it for my own portfolio or even as lets say I were to put it in a commercially used image such as marketing material for a real estate company wanting to sell their apartments and wanted something of a cotemporary design, do I think the inclusion of the sofa would be something IKEA themselves would not like legally.
So really the editorial licensing caveat appears to be a bit more of a liability cover for companies such as turbosquid. Atleast from what I can tell. I'll post the reply below in whole so if anyone else would like to see then its hear and who knows you may have your own take on it!
"Thank you for contacting TurboSquid Support. Content marked with “Editorial Use Only” restrictions depict a product owned by another company (i.e, Ikea). You may only use this content for news or if you have permission from the company. It is up to you to determine if you need permission to use the product for any other reason.
It is up to you, your business, and your legal counsel to determine whether you have clearance for using the model for non editorial purposes. If you do not require a branded or editorial model, you may wish to filter your search to exclude branded or editorial content."
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General CG Discussion / Re: 3D Model Licensing
« on: 2021-02-10, 14:58:01 »
Thanks @TomG for that reply :)
Seems like a real grey area of what is allowed when you start to think of the practical application of enforcing it.
Seems like a real grey area of what is allowed when you start to think of the practical application of enforcing it.
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General CG Discussion / 3D Model Licensing
« on: 2021-02-10, 14:00:46 »
Hi, I was wondering if anyone is any the wiser on "editorial" uses of models.
In short I am interested in buying a sofa model from turbosquid but it has the "editorial" license attached. Now looking at the guidelines I would only be able to use this for essentially "the greater good" and not for if I were to use it in my portfolio as that would be surely classed as self advertisement, in this instance a living room scene.
So my question is, is this a license for the model itself to be used and sold as the model or does it apply if you were to use it in any materials such as portfolio or a commercial piece for someone else. I ask because I doubt the author of the model has the rights to sell this furniture item as its from IKEA and is directly making commercial gains from selling it on this site.
I've tried sending a support ticket to turbosquid however nothing has popped up after I submitted it so I don't know if there is a delay in getting it processed.
Thanks in advance for any answers or clarity on this! :)
In short I am interested in buying a sofa model from turbosquid but it has the "editorial" license attached. Now looking at the guidelines I would only be able to use this for essentially "the greater good" and not for if I were to use it in my portfolio as that would be surely classed as self advertisement, in this instance a living room scene.
So my question is, is this a license for the model itself to be used and sold as the model or does it apply if you were to use it in any materials such as portfolio or a commercial piece for someone else. I ask because I doubt the author of the model has the rights to sell this furniture item as its from IKEA and is directly making commercial gains from selling it on this site.
I've tried sending a support ticket to turbosquid however nothing has popped up after I submitted it so I don't know if there is a delay in getting it processed.
Thanks in advance for any answers or clarity on this! :)
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[Max] I need help! / Re: Workflow guidance for large collection of images (batch rendering process)
« on: 2019-11-01, 16:51:34 »You should save images with your action in Photoshop via
File-Automate-batch
That was my original plan and I've done that before for mass re-sizing, however I was unable to get the process to automate the selection of masks for colour correction etc. I've probably done it wrong, however I've got a very tight turn around for this so I've had to try and think of a plan of what I think could work with minimal pain in the butt.