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

« on: 2024-04-12, 16:16:03 »

OSL might do what you're after, maybe?

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General CG Discussion / Soft furnishings, cushions etc.

« on: 2023-01-05, 14:16:49 »

I'd really like to know how people are adding cushions and other soft-body items to their scenes.
I'm talking about realistically slumped and creased and conforming somewhat to the furniture so that they look natural.

Are there good models available somewhere?
I can only find poor quality or overly creased/ugly models that are difficult to reshape.

Are people modelling them from scratch?
I've tried doing a few things in tyFlow which is ok for some simple curtains, but the free versions excludes self-collisions for cloth so have found a bit limiting.

Any pointers would be much appreciated!
J

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Slicer Material playground!

« on: 2022-12-05, 10:57:25 »

Did you use include/exclude feature, or doesn't it work with hierarchies?

Ok, I completely overlooked the material excludes - works perfectly!

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[Max] Daily Builds / Re: Corona Slicer Material playground!

« on: 2022-12-02, 18:44:12 »

I just tried using this to recess some spotlights but I guess it still interprets the light as being inside geometry and doesn't work (inside parent geo and slicer object).
See image of ceiling slab, with intersecting cylinder+slicer mtl and coronalight.

Could this work somehow? Feels like it would be a pretty handy feature.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: when will new caustics solver be done?

« on: 2020-08-05, 11:24:10 »

I'm happy to wait for incremental improvements to what has to be one of the most complicated parts of the engine.

+1 for the Corona teams patience with threads like this.

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Gallery / Re: Taming A Cloud

« on: 2020-04-08, 11:38:16 »

Cool. I like the Berndnaut Smilde vibe.

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Re: re-order added elements

« on: 2020-03-19, 22:38:36 »

...and I've just stumbled across a work-around:
delete the selected render element and then ctrl+z and it'll pop up at list end.

good enough for me :)

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / re-order added elements

« on: 2020-03-10, 12:29:06 »

A small thing but we often have lots of light mix elements, masks etc. and the list being quite unwieldy. Being able to re-organise them would be great.

J

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: select spinner value and release click at the outside the vfb.

« on: 2020-03-06, 10:55:50 »

We've had this issue for a long time and have only just figured out it's because of where the mouse is, i.e. outside the VFB.

Typical behaviour is to highlight the whole value with the mouse, move the cursor away (to the right) so that it doesn't obscure what you're typing, then hit enter.

It's not a critical bug, but boy is it annoying!

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Corona light issues

« on: 2020-03-06, 10:39:07 »

Have you tried unticking 'Occlude other lights' in the light params?

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Gallery / Re: Dancing with a deer

« on: 2020-01-24, 10:38:12 »

Lovely atmosphere and attention to detail - kitchen drawers not perfectly aligned. Call me boring but it's those kind of details that greatly add to the believability of an image for me.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: The Quest for HDRI managment

« on: 2020-01-13, 17:48:43 »

Also interested. I tend to use a similar setup to what you have pictured, including corona skys along with hdri etc.

And yes, looks like a bug wiring up controllers to the uAngle.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Problem of Hair and fur Corona Render 5

« on: 2019-12-02, 17:25:20 »

Good tip. I tried to do this recently and couldn't figure out why I couldn't get it to work.

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Gallery / Re: BOHO GARDEN

« on: 2019-11-18, 10:15:29 »

I like the Rousseau vibe - nicely done.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: CoronaBitmap: Float control for U and V Offset?

« on: 2019-11-04, 18:33:40 »

Try adding a Point3 XYZ controller to the uvwOffset node.