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[Max] I need help! / Re: Using Real world units with Corona Triplanar map?

« on: Today at 19:24:25 »

You're welcome!

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General CG Discussion / Re: Help with Max scripting

« on: Yesterday at 23:27:48 »

Another option is to use parameter wiring. I linked the seed ta a custom slider in my example, but you can wire it to almost anything in Max - height of a cube primitive, movement of teapot, etc. Any parameters that has numeric values can be "wired" together. Don't know how robust this method is, e.g. if you'll make significant changes in your material, the wiring might brake, but it takes only few seconds to rewire everything again.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Create a material not affected by light?

« on: Yesterday at 21:37:41 »

I would try Light material with cast light turned off, at least that's what i do when i need evenly lit non-shaded material in the scene.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Using Real world units with Corona Triplanar map?

« on: Yesterday at 10:01:25 »

In case the texture is not square, adjust tiling in bitmap accordingly, i.e. if texture is 2048 x 1024 set the U tiling to 1 and V tiling to 2. Scale in triplanar should be set of the longer side then, because its tiling is 1. Hope that makes sense.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Chaos Cloud for Corona

« on: 2025-08-31, 23:57:44 »

I hope that means we will have cloud rendering soon : )

It has been said in this same topic that Chaos cloud rendering for Corona is not gonna happen. https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=39950.msg225975#msg225975

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[Max] General Discussion / MOVED: MaxTree Libraries extremely slow to load

« on: 2025-08-31, 10:54:07 »

This topic has been moved to [Max] I need help!.

https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=45395.0

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[Max] I need help! / Re: MaxTree Libraries extremely slow to load

« on: 2025-08-31, 10:53:59 »

Do you mean material libraries? I don't think that Qt will help with that, as slow loading most likely is caused by Corona having to render all the map previews. You can try to improve this by reducing preview rendering quality in system settings, or turn off preview rendering completely in slate editor itself (toggle button in bottom left corner).

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Using Real world units with Corona Triplanar map?

« on: 2025-08-31, 10:46:58 »

Corona triplanar is by definition working in real-world scale. In fact it can't work in any other way. Scale in triplanar is the same as real-world scale in bitmap. Just make sure that your bitmap tiling is set to 1 in U and V or close to that if your texture is not square and control map scale in Corona triplanar. It's even simpler than with Max's real-world scale, since you don't need to bother with UVs and RW checkboxes.

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[Max] Previews (Daily Builds) / Re: Chaos Corona 14 for 3ds Max - Previews (Daily Builds) Discussion

« on: 2025-08-27, 09:31:30 »

The lack of QA at Autodesk is mind blowing. 2026.3 is probably the worst update ever, zero new features, bunch of new bugs.

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[Max] Previews (Daily Builds) / Re: Fabric Material Playground!

« on: 2025-08-26, 10:02:16 »

I was hoping that if it's not too much work to implement, we could skip all that hassle with the ideas portal and enjoy new feature in the next build :]

I guess that would be a pretty nice use case, so please log it in the Ideas Portal. :)

Did you make a typo here? ;]

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[Max] Previews (Daily Builds) / Re: Fabric Material Playground!

« on: 2025-08-25, 22:56:16 »

I would love if the fabric material could take multimap as input for weft and warp colour and render plaid fabrics that way.

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[Max] General Discussion / MOVED: Configuration to set HSV values independently

« on: 2025-08-25, 19:26:36 »

This topic has been moved to [Max] I need help!.

https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=45368.0

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[Max] Previews (Daily Builds) / Re: Chaos Corona 14 for 3ds Max - Previews (Daily Builds) Discussion

« on: 2025-08-25, 19:19:35 »

Under stood, but this has to do with V14 also. A lot of times you want to stop the IPR cause you want to make a bunch of changes to materials and don't want it to refresh constantly. But your only option is to close or move region to hit stop button. Many times you still want VFB open for reference. The IPR reaching it limit and stopping isn't actually stopping IPR, cause any new move refreshes IPR. I'll make a topic somewhere else for this, sorry I didn't think I was going outside the preview builds since this was happening in V14 also.

This has nothing to do with preview builds specifically. That behaviour is there from the very beginning, if you want it to be changed, the best place to ask/discuss it is Corona ideas portal https://chaoscorona.ideas.aha.io/ Be sure to do a quick search before submitting your request - i remember there were several discussions about option to explicitly stop IR after it reached stopping condition - someone may already posted request about that on the portal.

edit: sure enough, this is already requested, you may want to cast your vote here: https://chaoscorona.ideas.aha.io/ideas/CMAX-I-71

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[Max] Previews (Daily Builds) / Re: Chaos Corona 14 for 3ds Max - Previews (Daily Builds) Discussion

« on: 2025-08-23, 22:25:31 »

Please add more common fabric presets. Trying to figure this new material on one's own is no joke. And i really would appreciate "don't show again" checkbox in warning window that pops out each time when you change a preset - this thing is so damn annoying.

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[Max] Previews (Daily Builds) / Re: Chaos Corona 14 for 3ds Max - Previews (Daily Builds) Discussion

« on: 2025-08-22, 16:31:49 »

I can't find new Fabric material...