Daily Builds 1.7

[Ryuu]

Well, each of us already has several fulltimes worth of features planned for 1.8 :) But please make separate feature requests for everything you'd like to see in Corona VFB and we'll see what we can do.

[scionik]

Ok... try to describe what I exactly want to see in Corona VFB
Main features are:
1) Set focus distance
2) View Navigation
3) Select object + Get object material
for more details see

[Ludvik Koutny]

WOW

maybe the same for 1.8?

What's wow about it? CoronaVFB does same things as VrayVFB, but VrayVFB does them significantly worse. They have worse glare, worse tonemapping options and worse implementation of history.
Corona is only missing pick object in VFB and set DoF focus in VFB, those are relatively minor things and are somewhere in the TODO list AFAIK.

[maru]

Yes, I would also say those are definitely "nice to have", but probably not essential. Or in other words there is a lot of more important tasks right now.

[Frood]

Corona is only missing pick object in VFB and set DoF focus in VFB

Agree. Even picking objects is a questionable feature assuming there will be another internal VFB buffer needed for stuff like that.

there is a lot of more important tasks right now.

Totally agree: Bug fixing, fixing bugs and consolidating existing features by fixed bugs - just to name some ;]


Good Luck

[romullus]

From that video Vray's bloom and glare indeed looks like of inferior quality compared to Corona, although blazingly fast.

[maru]

although blazingly fast.

I guess it's because it's on GPU.
This is planned in Corona too.

[amitshneor]

Corona? GPU?
Care to elaborate on that?
:-)

[TomG]

We are considering adding GPU acceleration to the post-processing - but post-processing only, not the rendering! We are still proudly-CPU based in that regard :) Post-processing is the kind of area where GPUs can do well without drawbacks and limitations due to the nature of the calculations involved.

Aha, found the time in the video - you can hear about it in the interview from SOA Academy Day 7 last year, https://youtu.be/QP1oCoy1al4?t=10m56s

[Ludvik Koutny]

From that video Vray's bloom and glare indeed looks like of inferior quality compared to Corona, although blazingly fast.

No, it's also significantly slower than Corona's even on GPU. The reason it looks fast on the video is it's just 750*400 resolution.

[WalterSulivan]

Regarding GPU , I use corona for architecture exterior/interior .
day ago I've done livingroom interior for my client , rendered 1920x1080 in 17 minutes + denoiser
lots of lights and models, most of them with quite complicated shader trees (in other words not just textures with default settings) .

using 5820k/4300mhz . I don't need GPU at all
Corona is better than all other archviz and concept renderers
 

[cgiout]

With latest daily (2017-05-15) max crashes continously while loading scenes.
Does it happen to me only? Going back to official 1.6 release everything works smoothtly.

[Ondra]

With latest daily (2017-05-15) max crashes continously while loading scenes.
Does it happen to me only? Going back to official 1.6 release everything works smoothtly.

minidump?

[pokoy]

Will there be a separate daily build of CIE available soon? I'm asking because I'd like to get 16bits tiffs and alpha channel support without the need to install Corona DBs when in production.

[Ryuu]

Will there be a separate daily build of CIE available soon? I'm asking because I'd like to get 16bits tiffs and alpha channel support without the need to install Corona DBs when in production.

If you choose custom installation you may select only the CIE. Only the selected components are updated to the new version while all others are left untouched.