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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] Feature Requests => [Max] Resolved Feature Requests => Topic started by: VadoZe on 2013-10-16, 16:02:38

Title: Fast Preview Render
Post by: VadoZe on 2013-10-16, 16:02:38
I need sometime some preview renders)
Tried to search some answer here, but didn't found...

E.g. in VRay i could tune settings and achieve pics aprox the same quality, but slightly blurry and maybe noisy (depends on scene complexity) and it'll take 10-30min/pic 1080p on my 3770K 3,5GHz!
Corona's pics are great,but in 5-15mins still are noisy( i'm new in it but avoid Emission Mats, Huge Displace/Bump, Albedo 1, etc.)!
Maybe there are some settings in Corona to achieve pics in 10-20mins maybe less photographic/supadupa-realistic/amazing/caustic/dof/beauty but no noise? or special tracing method? or settings I didn't noticed? or...not enough beer in me?)

btw. now I use Alpha5 (not daily build).
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: Ondra on 2013-10-16, 16:11:41
hm... if noisy previews are not ok for you, but blurry ones are, I suggest waiting for the next stable release that will have irradiance caching in it
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: Ludvik Koutny on 2013-10-16, 16:12:16
There is not irradiance cache in corona at the moment, so this will probably not be easy. You should really post some pictures as it will make detecting noise source a lot easier.
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: racoonart on 2013-10-16, 16:27:35
hm... if noisy previews are not ok for you, but blurry ones are, I suggest waiting for the next stable release that will have irradiance caching in it

Why that? I thought this was something you were dismissing some Alphas ago.
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: VadoZe on 2013-10-16, 16:34:05
Post as it is, maybe some gamma settings need to be set, but they become darker!
GammaAndLut 1.8, all render settings are default, only use PT+HD, HD(as recommended PTsamples-512, MaxRecords-300). Plus VRay pic - and another question: why in Corona, reflections become dimmer!

6*CoronaLights - Intensity 1000, Sphere R9mm, and WM screen: Emission 1,6 +Map!
VRayPhysicalCamera+CoronaCameraMod
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: Ondra on 2013-10-16, 16:42:14
hm... if noisy previews are not ok for you, but blurry ones are, I suggest waiting for the next stable release that will have irradiance caching in it

Why that? I thought this was something you were dismissing some Alphas ago.

Because it will come back being better than ever before :D
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: maru on 2013-10-16, 16:46:51

E.g. in VRay i could tune settings and achieve pics aprox the same quality, but slightly blurry and maybe noisy (depends on scene complexity) and it'll take 10-30min/pic 1080p on my 3770K 3,5GHz!


You can try rendering with low amount of path tracing samples (2-8) and unlimited passes or set passes to 1 and use high path tracing samples amount like 2000 or so.

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Because it will come back being better than ever before :D
Can't wait!
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: VadoZe on 2013-10-16, 17:35:33
...will have irradiance caching in it
It's like IrMap in Vray? So cache could be use the same way in animations(using info from previous renders)?
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: Ondra on 2013-10-16, 17:38:20
yes.

It was already implemented in previous version, but was later dropped because it require one feature for efficient sampling that complicated the rest of the renderer too much. But now I have a better idea that does not need that feature ;)
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: VadoZe on 2013-10-16, 17:41:21
But it'll be always biased? (when using IrCache)
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: Ondra on 2013-10-16, 18:03:34
yes, you would need unlimited memory for unbiased rendering with IC/HD cache/lightcache
Title: Re: Fast Preview Render
Post by: lacilaci on 2013-10-16, 20:04:52
hm... if noisy previews are not ok for you, but blurry ones are, I suggest waiting for the next stable release that will have irradiance caching in it

And now I ain't going to sleep until i see this release :( :D this will be sooo awesome...