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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos Corona 12 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

« on: 2024-06-06, 17:51:30 »

Hi all

Sorry for the late reply.

The crash when clearing a multi-material has been happening for ages. Months, 1year plus?

The crash when changing the colour in the light mix is new.

I will open a ticket with Chaos. Will try and work out how to attach a minidump.

Thanks.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Is there anything to be gained from using the UHD animation prest for a still?

« on: 2024-06-06, 17:45:42 »

Thank you.

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[Max] Daily Builds / Identified 2 crashes. Can you reproduce?

« on: 2024-06-04, 13:25:41 »

Hi

I am using the latest daily.

-Adjusting the colour of an element in the lightmix (the "white box" leads to a crash.
-In the compact material editor, clearing/ deleting a multimaterial leads to a crash (this have been going on for several months, not just the latest build).

Can anyone reproduce those?

Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: interactive rendering restarts from time to time after a while....

« on: 2024-05-16, 00:21:13 »

Thankyou for your assistance. I have found that mimimising the interactive render window then doing a few other things, browsing leads to the problem happening when selecting the interactive render again.

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[Max] I need help! / interactive rendering restarts from time to time after a while....

« on: 2024-05-15, 11:51:11 »

Is there a way to prevent the interactive rendering from resetting and restarting? I am afraid that swapping windows tends to reinitialise it and I like browsing internet when rendering. Of course, the problem does not present itself when not using interactive rendering.

Thanks.
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[Max] I need help! / Re: Is there a way to use interactive render with batch render>

« on: 2024-05-15, 03:29:58 »

One thing I wanted to be sure was clarified - "gather info" doesn't do any denoising, it just saves the denoising info so you can apply it in the Corona Image Editor later (letting you adjust things in post, such as Radius, that is normally baked in at render time; or letting you swap between the AI denoisers). So if you do choose "gather info", the saved image is expected to be noisy until you run it through denoising in the CIE.

Thanks. Yes, Understand that.

Is there a way to prevent the interactive rendering from resetting and restarting? I am afraid that swapping windows tends to reinitialise it and I like browsing internet when rendering. Of course, the problem does not present itself when not using interactive rendering.

Thanks.

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[Max] General Discussion / Is there anything to be gained from using the UHD animation prest for a still?

« on: 2024-05-14, 22:42:03 »

Hi

Would using the "animation (flicker free) preset lead to a better result than using the "still frame" preset quality-wise for a render?

Thank you

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[Max] I need help! / Is there a way to use interactive render with batch render>

« on: 2024-05-14, 22:38:39 »

Hi

I often find that the fast denoising of the interactive renderer is good enough and for the same render time, a final (non-interactive) render looks much noiser than an interactive one (both use the same res/ render limit).

I have found that the "gather info" for denoising often leads to noisy renders.

Is there a way to do a batch render that would use the interactive rendering instead of the most thorough "final render" that denoises at the end? I also would like to automatically save my render elements

That would save a lot of time as I often have to do many renders in a short time.

I thought they were the same (as in they both lead to the same result)?

What am I missing here?

Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / How to exclude the environment from the tone mapper?

« on: 2023-08-01, 04:23:51 »

Hi
I am using a photo in the environment slot. How to get the photo to look like it does when opened in photoshop/ any viewer? I do not want the environment to be affected by the tone mapper so that I can adjust my lights/ tone mapper and the 3D model matches the photo (colour/ saturation etc...?

Thank you.

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[Max] General Discussion / How to disable adaptive sampler in Cortona 8 (for test)

« on: 2022-05-16, 12:06:15 »

Hi

I would like to disbale the adaptive sampler in the development/ experimental stuff tab.

Which settings do I need to disable as there are few that reference adaptivity.

Thank you.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona Materials to Unreal engine pipeline

« on: 2022-05-13, 19:10:11 »

I am trying to learn how to use Unreal so I am taking a finished Corona project (a bathroom) into it.

I will see what I can about posting as though as though I have not signed an NDA I need to make sure it does anot annoy anyone down the line...

It is scary jumping into something like Unreal. I had done a few half-assed attempts in the past but once you start getting a basic result, it is very exciting.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona Materials to Unreal engine pipeline

« on: 2022-05-13, 14:09:51 »

Oddly enougj, I started doing the same thing yesterday.

What worked for me was not using CoronaPhysicalMaterial in my scene but the Legacy ones.

I find it easier to just use Unreal materials presets (especially for metal and glass).

Unreal has released about 500PBR materials (the Twinmotion collection) for free.

Download here: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/twinmotion-materials

You will need to restart Unreal (and wait a long at the restart for shader compilation). I could not get glass exported from corona to show, I used the one from Unreal. Also, some of my lights only showed in Unreal when I changed the unit to candelas (they were imported in lumens) and from point lights to circle in the light setting.

Finally. Make sure that you check online how to disable "autoexposure" and "bloom" in your project settings (under render) to start with because autoexposure is evil at thi stage!

My findings after a few hours of playing with Unreal (from Corona).

Hope this help.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Question about enabling "caustic solver" but not enabling "caustics" in materia

« on: 2022-05-05, 16:55:56 »

Thank you.

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[Max] General Discussion / Question about enabling "caustic solver" but not enabling "caustics" in materia

« on: 2022-05-05, 02:14:50 »

Hi

Does it achieve something? Are caustics generated by reflections already enabled by default? Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Struggling with brushed brass material

« on: 2022-04-06, 01:35:08 »

thank you.

I did mention that I have tried them. I got something that will do the job by tweaking some preset but this was hard wrok for some reason.