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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] General Discussion => Topic started by: simtub on 2025-05-14, 04:47:59
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Just trying to offload some self frustration here.
Our visualisation team has just completed a retail project animation rendered in Corona and it's taken us a whole week of non stop rendering 24/7, fixing flickering, re-rendering with Anima, forestpack plugins only for the architecture team to output more than double the animation footage in 24 hours in D5 and looking 80% as good as our Corona output. We've got a few EPYC servers as farms along with another bunch of older 10700K's and 12900K's to help with the CPU rendering. We tried to output the scene from Max to Vantage to test but it wasn't having it and erroring out (Prob not optimised in some way but the deadline was tight so we just gave up)
At this rate our team is getting out competed by non visualisers doing the same kind of work and acceptable level of output for a presentation using a free software (D5) whilst we're justifying to the Finance dept to renew Corona, purchasing Anima 6 and updates to all our other plugins. It just feels like it's the end of the road for us a as a team within the company and the senior execs are certainly noticing this in the rates.
We're so on the edge of jumping onto D5 for animation work and migrate our pipeline across. I love Corona and the quality is still far beyond D5, Twinmotion, Enscape etc and especially for high end still image work. But for Animation esp the time it takes to output.. It's taking too much time for us.
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The trick with transitioning fairly smoothly to Vantage is experience with changing from VRay to VRay RT (and later VRay GPU). You need to build your scenes while having Vantage's supported features list in front of you.
Transitioning from VRay GPU to Vantage is not easy. Transitioning from Corona to Vantage is completely another level of a task.
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you didn't mention the library of models and materials you need to buy for your work. d5 has a wide very good, high quality library of models.
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a post with an interesting vibe...'Faster is better!' is always the most effective slogan.
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Impatience gives birth to frustration. Frustration turns into a conflict. Stress is made of fear. Such works inarguably suck more and are less pleasant to look at.
While on the other hand, amazing works always tend to look as if made effortlessly.
Achilles never catches up to a tortoise. ;)