[ARCHIVE] Pre-1.0 Daily builds

[romullus]

Testing new UI, so far i like it.
Found that UI type selector is redundant now and do nothing. Shouldn't it be removed?

Edit: if Secondary Solver is set to HD or UHD and according tab is set to show, changing Sec. Solver to PT or none and back to HD (UHD), according tab becomes hided. IMHO it'd be better if it remember its state.

Edit 2: tabs state is stored with scene file - that's good, but it resets to default on max start ar reset - that's bad.

[The Pixel Artist]

I too really like the new UI!!  Very nice!  I would also agree with Romullus' last post comments.

Currently really testing out the new Interactive mode and WOW it's truly amazing!  Having so much fun with it!  By far the best interactive render implementation I've seen yet!  Thea's may still be a bit better in few small ways (like the sketchup implementation you can make the main window interactive and even still work directly in it!).  But, overall, Corona's is far more powerful and feature complete!  I just can't believe you'd doing all this with only the CPU!  Amazing!

FYI, so far so good for the new build, nothing major so far.  A few "weird behavior" things but still exploring them.

Also, I've never noticed this up til now but I see Corona is having the same issue many other renderer do with smooth faceted curves/sphere (edge termination, or whatever it's called).  I know the Maxwell/Thea/Fry engines have been able to solve this.  Is this a new issue? (see attached leaf image)

[xt13r]

Wow. New UI is very useful!
But why not make it on the top? why is it on the bottom? it always moves down when i click on the buttons to show menus. And on the top it will be always on the same place, or not?

[Polymax]

Good idea! Very useful. (About UI). But gamma is very necessary(ю
UHD Test with dynamic obj and cam here:

. No flicks.

[Ondra]

Wow. New UI is very useful!
But why not make it on the top? why is it on the bottom? it always moves down when i click on the buttons to show menus. And on the top it will be always on the same place, or not?

Unfortunately it cannot be made always on top/always opened/always visible, because of the limitations of the 3dsmax rollout system. I will try to look what can be improved, but the chances are slim. However if you once move it to the top, it stays there, even when you close and open 3dsmax again.

[snakebox]

I ran some tests and the new UHD is very impressive and stable.. no need to pre-calculate the cache either, just render each frame and perfect!

There are some other... probably unrelated things though.. like noise through refraction is really really bad. Like I haven't even had the patience to let it run for long enough to be clean, which is interesting for animation.  This how ever happens only where there is light through refractions, the walls next to are clean nearly instantly.

Anyway I will try and upload some tests tomorrow. overall looking really good.

[Ondra]

great, when you do the comparisons, please also include HD cache for the "noise through refractions" example

[zouhair_psi]

Hi, when I select low memory,  I can render only the background even if there's geometry in the scene.
also I notice when I deselect precise et high quality the render become faster and less noisy.

[Ondra]

Hi, when I select low memory,  I can render only the background even if there's geometry in the scene.
also I notice when I deselect precise et high quality the render become faster and less noisy.

There is currently bug in low-mem. If you deselect precise, then faster, but possibly problematic embree kernels will be used. They can cause light leaks sometimes, so they are not selected by default.

[ecximer]

Still I have a sentence: to add Albedo channel to interactive rendering for faster adjustment.

[antanas]

Still I have a sentence: to add Albedo channel to interactive rendering for faster adjustment.

Yeah, that, most surely, would be quite handy to have.

[ecximer]

and more: automatically switch off "auto backup maxfile", if "interactive rendering" is running.

[kregred]

Build timestamp: Dec 21 2014
Before resseting the settings there was strong flickering. But after setting reset everything is okay.
Did you do any speed optimizations in the latest build? It's 40% faster with same settings.
p.s. The flashes on the right are from animated lamp

[Ondra]

cool!

[maru]

Christmas gift from me. ;)

There are some differences, for example UHD one looks slightly darker and is more noisy. There is also more single bright pixels on the block wall with UHD (like very weak fireflies). Why is MSI in UHD settings different than the one in general settings?

What's the relation between UHD's sampling quality and HD's quality? (forgot the name - in UHD it's 512 and in HD it's 256, should it be the same to have good comparison?)

UHD rendering was slightly slower.

In the zip file there are two images in original quality + indirect passes + vfb screens.