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« on: 2023-08-31, 23:32:54 »
I'm frankly baffled by the VFB improvements being among the least popular choices.
The VFB has been clunky and bugged since about forever, a rewrite in QT for it is supposedly in the works but what is the point of a yet another tiles map (and there are at least 2 I can think of off the top of my head - the regular tiles and the Bercon Tiles) when you're still going to have to fight the buggy and slow VFB to actually see it?
Cryptomatte? What the hell for? Corona is an arch/product viz renderer first and foremost and all the other uses are secondary (and that means all the VFX stuff you'd actually need something like comprehensive mattes for).
You are supposed to get a final image straight out of the VFB, saving you tons of time of compositing and screwing around in post. You want to do post compositing? Use Vray as THAT is its primary function and it's specially designed for VFX work with other uses being more of a bonus than a purpose.
GPU/CPU Hybrid? I understand that most who use Corona think their PCs are like toasters and have no clue on how neither software nor hardware either works or is made, replacing the whole thing if it breaks and calling on some bored IT technician to fix stuff when replacement is not an option, but it has been said many times over and I'll say it again:
To make Corona compatible with GPUs it would require literally making Corona over entirely, from scratch, to run on GPUs. This means years of work, and a whole legion of bugs for another year or so after before it actually becomes properly useful.
Again - you want hybrid rendering? Say hello to... you guessed it... Vray. Oh, and that took something like 4 - 5 years to get GPU rendering ALMOST on par with CPU rendering.
Sorry for the rant but it's disheartening to see so many not getting these things...