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[Max] I need help! / Corona 1.0. Bump and Normal maps?

« on: 2015-02-27, 22:15:49 »

Just started using Corona 1.0 today. Just noticed a scene I was working on using aipha 7.2 renders a metal material with normal map stripes fine. When I switched to corona 1.0 version, the material becomes completely black when rendered. When I unplugged the normal map texture, it rendered properly. Does this mean Corona 1.0 no longer supports normal maps or is there a requirement for them to work properly?

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Gallery / My Corona Renders

« on: 2014-12-23, 23:44:12 »

Hello, Since my graduation from uni with a degree in architectural visualization, I have been playing around with Corona and have come to love this renderer.
Here are my latest works with it:
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Softwares used: 3dsmax, Corona and Photoshop.

I am also currently looking a job with any archviz company here in the UK. I am also ready to move if there is any available.

Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Skyscraper glass material?

« on: 2014-10-16, 02:54:08 »

How best can one simulate skyscraper glass. Looking at several images it looks almost completely opaque with no transperency, some are transperent but I did notice the IOR is much higher. Most glass materials are around 1.2, so skyscrapers have more thickness or IOR hence they should be about 1.8?
Does anyone know how best u can replicate skyscraper glass without it being transparent? I intend to add reflection and gloss maps as well.

Thanks.

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[Max] General Discussion / Corona- Surface details and glosiness??

« on: 2014-10-06, 21:43:22 »

I have been reading up a lot on surface details and how that affects how glossy/blurry reflections become including brushed surfaces. I decided to experiment by using only bump or displacement maps to influence how blurry reflections can become but I have noticed I still need to enter a value in the glossiness to get the desired effect. I am guessing the bump/displacement details are not tiny or fine grain enough or Corona only renders with glossiness parameters specified?

EDIT: Seems a glosiness map or surface roughness map is required to get the end result. Seems bump maps cannot be used to specify surface roughness or glossiness using Corona.

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[Max] I need help! / Corona saves rendered image with system specs/render time display??

« on: 2014-10-03, 02:53:27 »

Hello, I decided to go back to Corona for a few renders after using Mental Ray.Only to discover that when I save out the render, corona saves it with the system spec and render time at the bottom left corner of the image. Is there a way to turn this off or u would have to crop it in Photoshop?
If I recall correctly,this wasn't happening before.

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[Max] General Discussion / Rendering multiple frames simultaneously with one pc??

« on: 2014-07-16, 15:14:28 »

Hello all,I am using Corona for my final year school project.Sadly,there is no corona on our render farm in school so I was wondering if there is a way u could tell ur pc to render.
I am using an Intel Core i7 -4700MQ@ 2.40ghz with 32gb ram, and a Nvidia GTX 780M of 4gb ram.
Will this be enough to run multiple frame renderings?
Also is there anyway I can get the render settings for the alpha test scene.I understand some tweaks were made to get it to run faster.If I can tweak the settings to get faster render time.That will be awesome.Right now my scene takes like one hour to render out with very little noise.I need to render like approximately 4 secs at 25 fps.I am rendering like 4 cameras for that scene alone.

Any advice I can get will be deeply appreciated.Thanks.

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[Max] General Discussion / How much will Corona be??

« on: 2014-07-14, 17:44:44 »

Hello,All.
I am a student currently looking into using corona for my final year project.I am interested in using it for future projects.I understand that there is going to be a commercial version this year.Is there going to be a free version and how much will the commercial version be? What I am working on is an animation and if I intend to render an animation in considerable time,my renders will have a lot of noise.
So does anyone know of a good technique that can be employed to remove the noise in say AE.There aren't much animations done with Corona at the moment but it would be nice to know how to go about this with the best results possible.I have heard of Neat Video,I am wondering if the free version is any good.Are there other plugins one can use?It would be nice if Corona devs add a small standalone app that comes with corona's install that can remove noise.
I am really loving this app.