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[Max] I need help! / HDRI's feel like they're over-exposed?

« on: 2020-08-03, 03:53:21 »

Hi there,

I have a project that needs a fairly prominent blue sky in it, with a few clouds in the air as well.

Something similar to the attached would be best.

I've found quite a few great looking HDRI's that look like they can do the trick. However whenever I bring them into my scene they look very washed out and unnatural. When used in the environmental slot, they emit great looking light properties but the skies themselves just don't look blue.

I've tried playing around with tone mapping, brightness and contrast, saturation, ev settings, etc. no matter what I seem to do a deep blue seems unobtainable.

Am I missing something here?

I can of course do a sky replacement in photoshop, but would really rather be able to do this the renderer.

Any thoughts?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Volumetric / Projection / Disco / Laser Lights

« on: 2017-05-10, 04:40:54 »

belly: yep, that would work - I remember people doing exactly this in Corona Alpha to trick people into believing corona had volumetrics back then ;)

Could you guys by any chance elaborate on how exactly you accomplished this effect? I tried some cones with a light material and some fall off maps applied and the results weren't what I was hoping for, but I might have approached things incorrectly.

Thanks so much!

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Volumetric / Projection / Disco / Laser Lights

« on: 2017-05-08, 10:35:58 »

I too am an event visualizer and was just about to post a thread asking about this.

Does anyone have any tips for controlling the range of the volumetrics a little better?

What I run into often is that I get a ray of light, but the fall off just doesn't feel natural.

Any thoughts?

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: License Problem with Material Editor

« on: 2014-07-21, 18:02:44 »

I am using A7.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / License Problem with Material Editor

« on: 2014-07-19, 01:26:05 »

Hi There,

I was trying out Corona last night and it was working wonderfully, and then randomly this afternoon I went to open up my material editor and I get a message stating

"Exception: please report at http://forum.corona-renderer.com: Corona licence is required for this operation"

and then when I close that out I get a message saying "Corona licence is required for this operation" and I get about 6 each of these messages while the material editor populates with black/blank images.

Is there any explanation for why this is happening?

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Corona multiple times, and nothing has changed with my computer since using the renderer last night.