Issues with Live Link to Vantage

[Konichowaa]

Hi,
Since a fews days, I dove into the exchange with Vantage, and I have some questions regarding compatibility.

If I am not mistaken, it seems there is

1) no support for other mappings but UVW? so not for Flat/Cubic, etc...? That is very painful IMHO ;-)
especially when materials are applied to a null and objects inside of it.

2) no support for PNG Alpha layers in Opacity Channel? It should work I guess, I have the option selected in the preferences...

3) no support for C4D Variation Shader

5) no support for Shadow Catcher?

6) no support for inverting Black and white value in a c4d texture slot (See Attachment Black-White-inverse) It does work when in a corona color correction shader and inverting there, but my library has a lot of these... :-/

7) different background images for each camera?

8) no support for volume channel in glass materials and (pool) water / liquid materials ?

9) I'm struggling with instances for lighting and getting artificial light in my scene. e.g. all spots should be plain geometry and the light source can be a render instance? This is somewhat different from coronaC4D where the spot should be a normal instance. I made a test file with all possibilities to see which combination works. It seems it is only going to work without instancing the lighting fixtures, and using plain geometry for the spot with a render instance light?
In the test file I am also attaching, try changing the name of the corona light whiole in Live LInk. Even though there is nothing directly instanced to it, lights go off...

10) no support for textures linked to asset browser, requires absolute paths?

11) This is more of a question than an issue; If you have an updated C4D file and want to recover all of the prior made animation and additions, the way to go is to export it again to a new vrscene and then load the prior made Vantage file 'as Config only' ?

Thanks for some insights!
Koen

PS: maybe there can be made a general forum category for the coronaC4D-to-vantage stuff? 

[TomG]

You can check compatibility over at https://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Supported+Features+per+Host+App

If you look at the V-Ray support, this will in essence tell you what Vantage itself supports. And then you can look at the Corona support, where you can see the things we've implemented out of the set of what Vantage supports (clearly we can't support it if Vantage itself doesn't have it). If Vantage doesn't have it, and you think it should have, then you can post or vote for the idea on the Vantage Ideas Portal https://chaosvantage.ideas.aha.io/ , and if Vantage does have it but Corona export does not, you can suggest (post or vote for) that on our Ideas Portal https://chaoscorona.ideas.aha.io/.

[Stefan-L]

well, there are many things that work on vray to cantage but not in corona to vantage yet!
most f the aboce work via vray

beside the above mentioned also textures that use the mix sloder or a mix state like mnultiply or colrorize are not exported.

i thinks the Vtagane export is a great idea and nice to have but needs yet quite soem improvements to be really usable. (atm we have to use vray c4d for using vantage whiuch works pretty good)