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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Multiple Maps in Scene Env loads all of the textures at rendertime when disabled

« on: 2024-08-26, 12:31:48 »

Hi Avi, thank you for the investigation and your reply.

The explanation makes sense, but I'm afraid it won't be easy to fix this without some changes to the 3dsMax itself right?
I'll try to figure out a workaround, I'm thinking a separate max file containing the light setups and to only copy over the necessary HDRI texture.

I'll keep an eye on the changelogs.

@arqrenderz also thank you for the heads up you gave to Avi :)
 

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Multiple Maps in Scene Env loads all of the textures at rendertime when disabled

« on: 2024-07-15, 08:49:01 »

I render different frames with different lighting setups and keep all of the HDRI's in the Multiple maps list. I only use one HDRI at a time as a Single Map, the Multiple maps tab is always disabled.

For some reason, Corona loads every HDRI in the Multiple maps list when it's disabled. I'm not using LightMix or any on the LightSelect render elements. These textures are not assinged to any other object in the scene. They only live in the Multiple Maps list which is, again, disabled.

The problem is, I'm already working with very heavy scenes and loading multiple unused HDRI maps really messes up the memory usage. I get the memory warning and it's always the HDRI maps hogging the memory.

I think this was an oversight, I can't think of a reason for Corona to load unused textures. Any fixes for this is very much appreciated.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Converting CXR to EXR to use Cryptomatte discards Tonemapping

« on: 2024-02-28, 14:42:51 »

Thank you for the quick reply Marcin. Looks like this might take a while.

Would you be able to share the command for ImageEditorCmd to automate this process? I'm not at all familiar with it.

If that'd be faster than the 3dsMax script route, this way I can background the process at least.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Converting CXR to EXR to use Cryptomatte discards Tonemapping

« on: 2024-02-28, 10:10:01 »

Hi, saving the render as CXR and renaming to EXR to use cryptomatte in After Effects works properly, no issues there.

The problem is, saving as CXR does not rasterize the tonemapping in order to give more flexibility inside Corona Image Editor, so renaming the files to EXR discards the tonemapping and saves an overexposed raw mess :)

I can use batch conversion with the script inside 3ds Max from CXR to EXR and apply my tonemapping config, but this adds an extra step and takes much longer than just renaming. It's not user friendly at all when converting, say 1500 frames of animation.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Material Editor and Render Settings takes AGES to load when no license found

« on: 2023-06-20, 12:07:38 »

Hi Maru, that might be it. We're using 3ds Max 2023 and Corona 9 Hotfix1.

Should I wait for the release of 10 or install the RC and test it?

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Material Editor and Render Settings takes AGES to load when no license found

« on: 2023-06-14, 13:24:13 »

We have several floating licenses and unfortunately every once in a while, someone doesn't get a license.

If Corona doesn't find a license, the whole Max becomes unusable, just loading the materials in material editor takes ages. I'm talking 10minutes to load 24 material slots. Once Corona realizes the license missing, it should skip all the Corona Materials. Instead, it seems like it checkes for license for every. single. material.

Render settings also takes ages to load. Again, after I get the error saying there is no license, pressing F10 sends another request for license. Maybe just check for a license at the top and leave the poor worker alone after that. We can manually check for a license with a button in Render settings if we can get it to open.

I understand Chaos would prefer we never have missing licenses but this is just absurd. Please, please fix this issue. Rant over, thank you.