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[Max] General Discussion / Corona New Sun Sky Vs Vray

« on: 2021-01-18, 16:09:10 »

Hi, i want to talk about corona New Sun and Sky vs Vray

I really like the new sun sky model, but i feel it lacks something, for me its not very good and night times and dusk hours, here is a comparison i found on ava archviz artists youtube video showing them side by side.
Is there going to be more attention towards the system or is it a closed topic?

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[Max] General Discussion / Corona Bitmap Memory Consumption and Speed (My Findings)

« on: 2020-11-18, 23:15:50 »

I wanted to test the Corona bitmap lower memory consumption on V6 and I found some interesting things that i like to share :

The test project consists of 969 bitmap files ranging from small to very high resolutions, on all kind of image formats.
3dsmax file with two fully furnished apartment floors
Here are the results

First time Opening the project

3dsmax Bitmap
Memory used on 3dsmax process  14.3 GB
First time rendering Memory Usage   32.9 GB
Scene parsing time        1:02
Geometry parsing time   0:02
UHD Time                     0:11

Second render
Memory usage is the same
Scene parsing time        0:11
Geometry parsing time   0:02

Interactive after second render
Scene parsing time        0:11
Geometry parsing time   0:02
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First time Opening the project

Corona  Bitmap
Memory used on 3dsmax process  22.5 GB
First time rendering Memory Usage  27 GB
Scene parsing time        0:44
Geometry parsing time   0:02
UHD Time                     0:09

Second render
Memory usage is the same
Scene parsing time        0:19
Geometry parsing time   0:02

Interactive after second render
Scene parsing time        0:22
Geometry parsing time   0:02

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For the lazy ones that dont like to read that info :
Corona bitmap CAN lower the memory consumption on the RENDERING side, but will use more memory opening the max file
Corona Bitmap will be faster on the scene parsing the first time comparing to 3dsmax bitmap, BUT the second time 3dsmax bitmap will be faster.
So if you are having memory problems corona bitmap is a good option, but your starting times will be longer.
I can share the scene with the developers if they want to take a look.


All test were made on 3dsmax 2021.2   Win 10   Corona 6.1
Ryzen 3950  128gb ram

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Corona Displacement Bug

« on: 2020-11-11, 17:55:15 »

Hi, i was working on a brick facade that needs some displacement to show the mortar gap and made my maps with substance, when i was rendering i found a nasty displacement bug with corona that is very obvious in the images below, i render the same geometry using Arnold and the result is way better and there is no deformation.
I tried with and without 2.5d 

Im attaching the displacement map used on the tests   https://we.tl/t-3IA961Ze05
Arnold version looks way better :(


If some one knows how can this work on corona it would be Great


 

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General CG Discussion / Octane Multi-Render

« on: 2020-10-13, 20:31:49 »

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[Max] I need help! / Denoising animations ?? How are they doing it

« on: 2020-09-11, 17:12:56 »

Hi, I have a question regarding Nvidia or intel denoising, as we know those type of denoise cant be used on animations for Flickering reasons.
But how are they using it on their demos ?

  They are using it on games and unreal engine, are they using a different denoiser that the one that corona have?

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Gallery / Malalcahuello Cabin

« on: 2020-09-01, 21:39:26 »

Here is my latest personal work  Malalcahuello Cabin by  Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos

I made a big post on behance with a lot more information and some sort of making off , if you are interested here it is  https://www.behance.net/gallery/103500991/Malalcahuello-Cabin-CGI?

It Was made using 3dsmax 2020, corona 5.2 and Photoshop 
The biggest hurdle was the waiting for the interactive to start, the scene has a lot of forest instances and it take a minute to start on a ryzen 3950 at 4Ghz with 128gb of ram, It would be a dream come true if those times could be lowered, i don't really know if its asking too much (not being sarcastic or attacking here) or if itoo developers and corona could make it faster on the scene parsing side of things.
I just had to set up the environment and turn it off for the rest of the project for time sake, i can share the scene for the developers if it can help somehow.

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Copy VFB settings to selected corona cam

« on: 2020-08-28, 02:10:05 »

Simple but time effective! Copy VFB settings to selected corona cam thats my feature request :)

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Crash if hdri change while interactive

« on: 2020-07-13, 17:10:46 »

Hi, there is a crash every time i change the hdri while the interactive is running.
is it related to the object merger while interactive is running?

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[Max] Tutorials & Guides / Coronarender shader tutorial for Spanish speakers 04 Vegetation shader variation

« on: 2020-06-17, 21:31:42 »

Por aca les dejo un nuevo video tutorial para darle variaciòn a la vegetación, la idea funciona para cualquier motor de render

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Gallery / 7110

« on: 2020-06-17, 16:14:57 »

7110 Is a personal project created to pitch an idea.
Is made to explore new possibilities

Behance link for full res renders  https://www.behance.net/gallery/99005725/7110

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[Max] Tutorials & Guides / Corona render shader tutorials for Spanish speakers 03 Water drips

« on: 2020-05-16, 01:45:29 »

Nuevo tutorial de corona, Shaders de materiales mojados con todo y texturas !

ArqRenderZ

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[Max] Tutorials & Guides / Corona render shader tutorials for Spanish speakers 02 Ice Shader

« on: 2020-05-04, 18:15:32 »

Second tutorial, this time is about ice shaders.

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[Max] Tutorials & Guides / Corona render shader tutorials for Spanish speakers 01 Metal Shader

« on: 2020-05-04, 18:14:09 »

First video is about metal shaders

Comments are welcome !

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General CG Discussion / Help a total begginer on Maxscript

« on: 2020-03-24, 15:55:10 »

Hi, im under quarantine for 20 more days in my country, i was hoping to put this time to good use and to learn the basics of maxscript programming would be very useful, So any of you have good tutorials or resources to get started? maybe some tricks and tips you have learn ? Where do you get all the expressions and the basic programing language? Have any tried phyton with 3dsmax? it's supposed to be easier?
Thank you so much

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Gallery / I`m Guest House

« on: 2020-03-18, 21:51:21 »

Hi, I like to share my last under quarantine personal project, its the I`m Guest House by Desai chia architects, while i was searching more info about the house i found that Nmachine have already done it on 2017 on the ronnen bekerman forums.
So just like they said fell free to post your comments! Stay safe people.














Behance gallery has better resolution ones : https://www.behance.net/gallery/93972347/Im-Guest-House?