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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] General Discussion => Topic started by: APrather on 2013-06-21, 20:04:31

Title: Many render passes, Does it ever stop?
Post by: APrather on 2013-06-21, 20:04:31

I have installed Corona A5 yesterday, I found this one great, simple and intuitive.. Looks very promising.. But only one concerns.... Maybe I've missed something...  Maybe I so used with VRay. But usually with most render engine, they have progress bar that can tell when it will end. But with Corona... Its different and I am not aware or know when it'd end.   My still running at 245th passes and continuing for 20 minutes and I only have a simple torus knot, simple red glossy material and a two rectangle light at intensity of 10.  The result look so clean, no noisy.   I only wonder does it ever stop?

Title: Re: Many render passes, Does it ever stop?
Post by: racoonart on 2013-06-21, 20:27:33

It won't stop. It runs as long as you let it run. You can either stop the rendering by button or set a time or pass limit in the render settings. Since its a "progressive" rendering mechanism there is no ultimate "end". Vray stops rendering when it reaches a certain noise level (DMC noise threshold mostly and some other factors)

Title: Re: Many render passes, Does it ever stop?
Post by: Ondra on 2013-06-21, 20:32:26

exactly, stop it whenever you like the result. After the initial pass only thing that will change over time is progressively lower amount of noise. Alternatively, you can set limit for either number of passes or time.

Title: Re: Many render passes, Does it ever stop?
Post by: maru on 2013-06-21, 22:45:32

In Vray there is also a progressive path tracing module for light cache, only it's limited. :)

Title: Re: Many render passes, Does it ever stop?
Post by: APrather on 2013-06-21, 22:49:00

Thank you for your feedback.... Wow... I m loving this already. This Render is AWESOME.