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Hardware / Re: PC Diagnostic software recommendations?

« on: Today at 12:26:50 »

I was actually ignorant to any 2990WX common issues. I guess this is the likely cause of my persistent problems then?

I wonder what I can upgrade to if I want to just replace the CPU (and maybe MB?)?

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Hardware / Re: PC Diagnostic software recommendations?

« on: Yesterday at 21:04:47 »

Thanks Juraj, I thought you might be the right guy to answer :)

Yep, event viewer seems to have told me it was a Kernel Power error. Not much info other than that.

Welp, this problem has plagued me 3 years now. I might have to look into those endless "Help on new PC" threads I often ignore here on the Corona forums.

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Hardware / PC Diagnostic software recommendations?

« on: Yesterday at 20:23:27 »

My PC is causing me trouble. It's almost always had problems but I've just dealt with it. I'm on the verge of buying a new one (it's time anyway) but right now I just don't want that worry.

I'm wondering if anyone has good software recommendations to help pinpoint what the issue might be? I'm often getting the blue-screen crash, a memory load dump, if I recall correctly.

It's generally gotten pretty bad over the course of approx. 2 months to the point of being unusable at which point I replace the windows SSD and things seem to work all fine again. But this time it hasn't helped. I'm now thinking it might be my graphics card. I've replaced the RAM. I thought the RAM was a real problem as the PC could never handle 128gb of RAM, so I've always only had 64gb installed with another 64gb sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust.

It generally happens under moderate-high load, but sometimes not.

My full system:
CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX
GP: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB
MB: Asus Prime x399-a
RAM: 4 x 16gb DDR4
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500gb

Any tips in pinpointing the problem appreciated!

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[Max] I need help! / Re: [solved] Node to rotate a texture?

« on: 2024-04-12, 16:01:42 »

Indeed it doesn't. Strange, but i think i remember that this used to work, maybe something got broken at some point? I also found that W rotation in Corona bitmap rotates in wrong axis when in spherical mode. Something seems not right here. Anyway, sorry for misleading, it seems you'll need to find other solution.

Hey Dev's, any idea why this is happening? It should work, right?

My guess is because there is no checkbox for 'env' randomization then it doesn't know to apply the randomness to the env slot?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: [solved] Node to rotate a texture?

« on: 2024-04-11, 12:20:48 »

Actually, I jumped the gun there!...

Testing this... it doesn't work?

What should my settings in the randomizer be? Say; I want to rotate the direct one by 90 degrees (so the sun moves left or right) what should I do? Nothing seems to work.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Node to rotate a texture?

« on: 2024-04-11, 12:06:07 »

Dammmmm, so simple I never thought of it!

Thanks Romullus, that will indeed do the trick

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[Max] I need help! / Node to rotate a texture?

« on: 2024-04-11, 10:07:47 »

I'm wondering if anyone has a tip for me.

I often work with HDRI direct visibility override, but the HDRI image/file is the same as the environment texture, just rotated somewhat. See the attached image below.

The problem is that I need to have a duplicate of the HDRI. If I change the hdri or edit its settings I have to do it twice. Once for the environment and again for the direct override.

Is there some sort of node I can plug in a texture into as an intermediate so it takes the texture and rotates it more? Does this make sense?

Again, see the attached image for how I expect it could work.

Thanks for any help!

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Gallery / Re: Sidus

« on: 2024-04-08, 19:54:59 »

Mate, you have ABSOLUTELY nailed the lighting and tonemapping in these images. Well done.

Such realistic lighting, lovely soft lighting but still managed a slightly blue sky. Just lovely.

Do you mind sharing your setup? HDRI, I presume? Many thanks

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Thanks corona for the april fools

« on: 2024-04-01, 08:35:01 »

It literally says 'April Fools Day' right there on top.

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General CG Discussion / Max to Unity

« on: 2024-03-29, 12:16:47 »

Hi all,

I'm about to embark on a project where I'm working with webgl.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience using Unity for publishing to web?

Any tips much appreciated!

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[Max] I need help! / Re: "chaos cosmos" walking people motion blur

« on: 2024-03-28, 13:16:06 »

If I recall correctly motion blur doesn't work for spline scattering movement?

Is this now fixed? Or am I mis-remembering?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Kelvin temperatures are not realistic?

« on: 2024-03-28, 07:41:32 »

I agree.

I'm sure I've seen this topic discussed somewhere, and don't remember the answer, but I reckon the dev's will justify it with some complex reasoning.

But yes, it's definitely wayyyy too warm.

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

« on: 2024-03-26, 10:02:51 »

Hi, I have installed the latest Corona beta. Every time I add a camera (CoronaCam) to a scene, or try to modify its settings, I get an error message about the application closing it. The problem does not occur when using the vray camera.

This is a horrible bug. I've had to revert to another daily. Will we be seeing an update any time soon?

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Off-Topic / Re: Any experience with EnvisionVR

« on: 2024-03-14, 10:59:32 »

Bump.

No one?

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Off-Topic / Any experience with EnvisionVR

« on: 2024-03-13, 00:15:58 »

Hi all,

I'm looking at working with the team over at https://envisionvr.net/ for some new jobs.

They basically provide 3dsmax -> web conversion of fully VR property sales tools. Walk-arounds, dollhouse models, table models etc. It all seems pretty good and definitely has piqued the interest of some of my clients.

I'm just wondering if anyone has used their services before? In a recent meeting with someone from their sales teams they showed off some private work from some of the very biggest and best ArchViz companies we all know. So I was pretty sold on their service by then, if I wasn't already. The quality isn't as photorealistic as I'd like (but that's a limit on RAM and download speeds I guess).

I'd also be interested to know if anyone has any experience with any other similar providers? I understand they use Unity to convert and publish the models to the web. I don't have the knowledge to do this myself, but I'm sure there must be more tools/services out there that can help?

Thanks for any tips!