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[Max] General Discussion / Are people starting to ditch Forest Pack for Chaos Scatter?

« on: 2025-07-15, 06:46:01 »

Just wondering if people are starting to ditch Forest Pack in favour of Chaos Scatter?

I've not used Chaos Scatter as yet, but am keen to hear other's thoughts...

Cheers,
Luke.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona 12 Update 1

« on: 2025-03-27, 03:19:30 »

@tinikam - is your CPU by any chance Ryzen 9950X? Users are reporting similar problems with some potential solutions/workarounds here https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=43755.100

FWIW - AMD Threadripper 3970x here... 128GB ram...

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General CG Discussion / Anyone incorporating AI into the workflow..?

« on: 2025-03-20, 03:48:31 »

Just curious to know if anyone is actually successfully incorporating AI into their daily workflow, specifically in the ArchViz world...?
Either for stills or animations/cinemagraphs etc...?

So far I've found it pretty underwhelming for simple things like generative fill, adding people etc... but maybe i'm just looking in the wrong places...?

Love to hear from those who are using it, how and which apps/platforms etc... has it sped up or slowed you down...? 

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona 12 Update 1

« on: 2025-03-20, 03:36:14 »

Just testing Update 1 Hotfix 1 and the performance is drastically improved for me.  Thanks for rolling that out

I'm on HF1 and it's slow AF... opening files, closing files, starting renders, stopping renders.. everything is just a lot slower...
and this is starting brand new scenes in 12HF1... I'm on max 24 aswell.

the most noticable is slowdown is rendering, starting and stopping a render is painful...

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[Max] Previews (Daily Builds) / Re: Tiles playground

« on: 2024-09-27, 02:16:52 »

Has anyone set up a realistic floorboards texture using the tile map that they could share?
I'm interested to see if it could replace floorgenerator and mulitmap as a way of creating hyper-real floors...

Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: How can I create a loop of timelapsed clouds with Corona 11...?

« on: 2024-09-17, 01:57:18 »

Thanks for the tips! :)

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[Max] I need help! / How can I create a loop of timelapsed clouds with Corona 11...?

« on: 2024-09-10, 08:28:10 »

Just wondering how I would go about creating a 10sec loop of timelapsed clouds using the corona sun/sky...?

is this possible?

many thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Problem; 3ds max Crashing on opening the compact material editor

« on: 2024-09-09, 08:34:46 »

I'm getting this as well. It's incredibly frustrating...

Gonna roll back to 11, hopefully they can make 12 more stable... as so far all it's done is cause problems...

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: CoronaColor Map - no checkbox for linear?

« on: 2024-02-15, 04:17:44 »

It is still there, Solid HDR just lets you have above 1.0 (0-255) values as well.
RGB 255, 255, 255 would be 1.0 1.0 1.0 in HDR. Give it a try and see if it comes out correct for you.

Hey mate,

Thanks for getting back to me, and I get that, but then I have to go and figure out what each value is, just another annoying step in the process when all i had to do previously is check a box...
Most paint and other building related color companies provide the standard 255,255,255 rgb values for their colours not HDR 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 values... so it's frustrating, especially when colour selection is a massive component of what we do.

This adds the needed nuance, your case is more clear now.

Yes, as Romullus mentioned, when selecting a color with CoronaColor picker, you can specify if it is in sRGB or Linear. The values for selected color convert automatically.
This is also possible (as I tried and understood to some degree) with default color picker, with Scene or Display reference and conversion.

I didn't know about the corona colour picker, thats definitely an improvement on the standard one and I can get the result i want.

Thanks for your help!

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: CoronaColor Map - no checkbox for linear?

« on: 2024-02-14, 04:04:13 »

It is still there, Solid HDR just lets you have above 1.0 (0-255) values as well.
RGB 255, 255, 255 would be 1.0 1.0 1.0 in HDR. Give it a try and see if it comes out correct for you.

Hey mate,

Thanks for getting back to me, and I get that, but then I have to go and figure out what each value is, just another annoying step in the process when all i had to do previously is check a box...
Most paint and other building related colour companies provide the standard 255,255,255 rgb values for their colours not HDR 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 values... so it's frustrating, especially when colour selection is a massive component of what we do.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: CoronaColor Map - no checkbox for linear?

« on: 2024-02-13, 08:50:30 »

thanks mate, but what if i dont have the HDR values?

I just want to enter a basic 255, 255, 255 rgb value (eg colorbond/dulux etc etc) and have it come
out the right colour...? 

It worked fine before the change...

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[Max] General Discussion / CoronaColor Map - no checkbox for linear?

« on: 2024-02-13, 03:00:20 »

Hi all,

Just wondering what happened to the checkbox for "Input values are in linear colour space" in the CoronaColor map..?

As now when I input a solid color 0-255 RGB value I don't get the colour I need?



Any idea's as to how I can input a rgb value and have it be the colour I'm wanting?

Thanks.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Price Increase

« on: 2024-01-11, 23:43:12 »

anyone gone over to fstorm? thoughts?

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Postprocess settings back to default in Corona 9

« on: 2022-11-01, 04:51:45 »

Also have the same issue, when I open a scene that was created in Corona 8 all the tone mapping settings are set to default...
this is with max 22 fwiw

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona Subscription Update by CHAOS

« on: 2022-10-24, 11:48:50 »

PS I will also add the other info, which has already been mentioned, that free render nodes from FairSaaS (if you have them) are still maintained, so long as your Premium subscription continues uninterrupted.

So in order to maintain the current FairSaas subscription inclusions, being one (floating?) licence and 3 render nodes we have to pay more than double €24.99 -> €59.90?