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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: ACES 2 ?

« on: 2025-07-21, 12:01:00 »

Now - I'm totally not qualified to say much about this as I don't use it. But isnt the point of ACES unified colour management across different devices and outputs..?

It's not a 'look' (although I know that's how it's treated in Corona as a tonemapping preset).

So it may be that the you're looking for a very neutral baseline with the very minimum of cilpping etc before you grade in davinci or whatever? I wouldn't judge it as the final output.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Siding Texture – Undefined Batten – Displacement Issue

« on: 2025-07-01, 11:39:31 »

stupid question - have you adjusted Dispacememt screen size? If its at the default setting it may need to be reduced to 1 or .5 for the  displacement to stop stepping. (Performance tag of corona settings)

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[Max] Previews (Daily Builds) / Re: Are you still using the old VFB?

« on: 2025-06-27, 12:58:44 »

Yep, just prefer the spacing and clarity of the old version.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Falloff alternate in C4D

« on: 2025-06-20, 09:16:31 »

Whats wrong with using layers and the fresnel gradient as a mask exactly?

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Scale a texture using an Opacity map

« on: 2025-05-13, 13:32:45 »

As you are in C4D - Id strongly suggest that you look at using cinemas built-in terrain shader.
It is made specifically for this purpose, and you can get some very nice results by blending based on altitude, slope angle etc (use it as the mask in a layer shader)

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Chaos Cosmos on the phone

« on: 2025-05-07, 10:31:39 »

Err - yeah, but they're useful for my user-case scenarios though. Not everyone's work is the same.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Contact Shadows seen through transparency / top down view

« on: 2025-04-23, 10:20:32 »

you could also cheat the IOR of the water to a lower amount to make is less dominant.
In any case the ''air'' should not be at the top of the bottle if the bottle is lying down. Removing that may make the difference between filled and empty less obvious too

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Scratched and dusted wood shader

« on: 2025-04-03, 16:59:20 »

Just a general comment - i think it looks wrong from the get go because there is a glossiness map in the roughness slot or something. The it looks like its inverted so the base wood is wrong before adding any scrapes 

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[C4D] Bug Reporting / Decal on glass, big refraction problems

« on: 2025-03-19, 18:31:26 »

I've been working on a bottle project, where I had set up the glassware to use decals for the embossing (only effect displacement). I thought it as working reallly well and giving me lots of control, until i realised that if the decal is not appllied the refraction looks completely different!

Decal with bump instead of displacement it still wrong. But UV mapping and applying displacement via the material  works as expected - so it seems to be a decal issue.

Sometimes you hardly notice, but sometimes it is VERY different. It seems to be buggering up the IOR value of either the glass or somehow the volumetric liquid.

I can't share the real files so there's a simple scene attached below.

Unfortunately this means deacals cannot be used on transparent materials properly.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: NO LICENCE AVAILABLE!

« on: 2025-03-10, 17:14:03 »

OK - in the end this was fixed after an hour or so. (Even one lost hour can be problematic when working against deadlines of course).
Would prefer a cleaner way of contacting the help in this sort of scenario TBH. Ai buddies and generalised waiting times are not the sort of things that calm down panicky clients.

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[C4D] I need help! / NO LICENCE AVAILABLE!

« on: 2025-03-10, 13:14:13 »

Corona is not activating despite there clearly being a licence free on the licence server.
Corona is updated as is the licence server. No help.
Have submitted a Help centre ticket which says: "'Please note: We are currently experiencing high ticket volume, which may result in longer response times than usual—currently 3-4 days. Our team is working diligently to get to your ticket as quickly as possible.'

WTF! I have deadlines today! 

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Denoise after render

« on: 2025-03-05, 10:22:11 »

Nice! Hadn't thought about separate beauty passes

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[C4D] General Discussion / Denoise after render

« on: 2025-03-04, 17:47:08 »

 I ave some shots that really need denoising in some areas but have other fine detail that is lost if I denoise. So id like to render once, denoise a copy and then comp it with the un-denoised version. Is this possible? From CXR perhaps?

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Missing refraction distortion - BUG?

« on: 2025-02-14, 15:16:38 »

Dont worry - something wierd with the file I think. Seems OK on a clean version

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Missing refraction distortion - BUG?

« on: 2025-02-14, 14:08:02 »

Probably the bump channel issue that is around since forever ?

No bumo - only displacement. BUT it is a layered noise which was part of the bump issue if I remember correctly?