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[Max] I need help! / Re: 2 backplates with interactive lightmix
« on: 2025-05-07, 15:00:38 »
OK thanks, that's unfortunate
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Yes, but even if it was, our developers had already fixed some impossible issues and added impossible features, so nothing to worry about.
Yes. Here's a basic scene with couple examples of how you could possibly approach this. Mind you the mapping is not done correctly in this scene and it will break as soon as you will try to change object dimensions, or texture tiling. It's perfectly possible to fix this, but i just wanted to quickly throw some scene together and my Max knowledge is a bit rusty.
Both bitmap nodes (Max and Corona) have cropping tools and you can use mapping randomizer to do randomization of cropped tiles.
If I remember correctly Corona's subscription started from 20/month. I do not recall the version number but I'm sure you wouldn't trade current Corona for the old one to save 10/month. You are getting more than you used to get. You might not like the things you are getting (Cosmos) but the value is there. Check car prices in Europe from the year Corona introduced subscription model to get some ideas about things getting expensive.
Regarding the USP? It is simply not there for you anymore most likely. But also look around and, if possible, show us a better deal from Chaos' competitors.
I regret my words in this post below in 2021 when complaining about the same this thread is complaining about.Vray costs $700/year for the whole ecosystem.
Corona costs $360/year for a fraction of the services and development.
I don't get it.
I don't use scatter, cosmos, corona materias, scans or anything else other than core Corona. If the price increases were for the "ecosystem", I don't think it's justified for most of professional archviz artists.
The biggest gripe for me is that most of the "new features" of late, are half baked or experimental and have been for some time. Rather than just a fully featured fully working new feature, they either don't work as epected or come with workarounds, exceptions and disclaimers. And they never seem to make it out of that phase. The focus of the last few releases seems to be around new users. Experienced long time users of Max let alone Corona, don't need Power Tools or anything like that. I can't see anyone that uses Forest Pack switching to Scatter when Forest Pack is about 10 years ahead in terms of development and isn't particularly expensive considering what it offers. Never gonna please everyone I suppose.
I don't understand the 6 monthly release cycle anyway. That alone has a rushed feeling about it. Personally think the release cycle should be as follows:
Big Release - Exciting New Feature(s)
6 months later - Hotfix that fixes anything that was experimental/half baked in the Big Release
6 months later - Big Release
Rinse and repeat.
So you're getting a big release every year and then a smaller bug fixer in between that addresses ALL of the issues from the previous release.
I guess at the end of the day, for customers to be okay with price increases they need to feel like they're getting value for their money. And of late (last few releases) it doesn't feel like that. Higher Cost + Less Features = Sour Taste.