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I need help / Re: Wood Board Corona Material

« on: 2019-07-30, 15:52:09 »

Hi,

As I understand you're using material from corona material library?
If so then you have no need to adjust material scale, unless you're seeking very specific effect.
All materials from material library comes with with triplanar mapping or with correct real world size units. So most of the time you don't need to do anything to get correct scale, or you only need uvw map set to real-world map size.

But if you really wan't to see your map ir viewport, you should try enabling "show shaded material in viewport", not in material itself but in specific bitmap node.

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I need help / Re: Material is changing colour in render

« on: 2019-07-25, 17:20:33 »

This should be expected behavior. Just setup your exposure and lights then adjust your material to desired effect. Or use corona ToneMapControl node.

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Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D - general / Re: Version differences and their purpose

« on: 2019-07-05, 11:21:19 »

Hi Nikola,
I think you must test yourself, we are no longer beta testers, we pay to have a stable version...
No More daily build please.

No ones forcing you to download and use daily builds. Just stick to latest stable release until another stable release comes out.
Removing dailies would make development slower and stable releases bugier. As much as you don't like dailies, but it saves some time on QA and gets better coverage of different system configurations.

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Hardware / Re: Advice Regarding RAM

« on: 2019-06-06, 20:19:01 »

You can go with storage for a start, more of it never hurts. And you can use disc cloning software to copy over your system drive to bigger storage device.
In the meantime you should wait for new offerings from intel and amd

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Bug Reporting Cinema 4D / Re: An angry c4d user

« on: 2019-05-30, 11:04:22 »

All of your gripes just seems to come from your preconceptions of how corona should work, and not how it is working.

It's hard to comment when you don't mention most of your problems. And few things you mention are tweakable.

Ability to use HDRI textures on lights. You can use corona light material for that and map it on whatever geometry you like.
https://corona-renderer.com/forum/index.php?topic=18542.0

Interactive rendering performance can be improved by enabling "force path tracing" option in performance tab or by adjusting UHD catche precision value.
You also should try adjusting number of cpu threads used by interactive render and switching off Ai denoiser.

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I need help / Re: How to remove dots

« on: 2019-05-10, 11:55:15 »

This looks heavily denoised, with just few passes. Try resenting settings, upping resolution a bit and rendering again for a bit longer.

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I need help / Re: Scanning or photographing long planks

« on: 2019-04-29, 08:39:17 »

I already hear Dubcat somewhere, screaming in my mind for suggesting this, but here it goes.

There was a guy, at my local forum, who uses handheld scanner for most of his textures. Maybe that's worth looking into?
You won't get great color accuracy and most likely will need to stitch texture files later, and who knows what other plethora of problems this could introduce.
But handheld scanners don't cost that much, and this could work.

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I need help / Re: Metal Materials not shiny when rendered

« on: 2019-04-26, 09:07:06 »

Show us example of what you're dealing with.

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Bug Reporting / Re: Lights through glass displaying black

« on: 2019-04-23, 16:09:11 »

Usually this happens when you uncheck "visible in refractions" checkbox.

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General CG discussion / Re: CMs or MMs for Arch Viz scene units in MAX?

« on: 2019-04-17, 08:35:39 »

Thanks guys, yes I was referring to system units.

Interesting. Well I might suggest we have a go at at least upping to CMs and give it a try going forward. I can see metres getting a bit frustrating, with a lot of 0.01 sort of measurements going in for me but CMs shouldnt need as many decimal points.

There is few ways to deal with that. You can always stick to mm in display units. That way you wont need to type everything with decimals, other way is to just specify units at the end of the measurement. If you're using meters for example and typing 2500mm for a box height you will get end result of a 2.5meters. I mostly use this to convert imperial measurements to metric.   

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General CG discussion / Re: CMs or MMs for Arch Viz scene units in MAX?

« on: 2019-04-16, 15:28:05 »

I would recommend using centimeters or even meters for bigger projects. For me, mostly working with interiors centimeters works great.
Millimeters only useful from small scale models.

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I need help / Re: Can you make macro for this?

« on: 2019-04-05, 09:34:12 »

Or use lightmix.

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Feature requests Cinema 4D / Re: Texture link mapping/Merging

« on: 2019-03-22, 16:07:17 »

If you're swapping models between different computers it's normal behavior. Usually they come with asset paths from original creators computer, so most of the time you have to go change asset paths.
I don't know of a good way to avoid this, but one way to make things easier is to use relink bitmaps plugin.

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Feature requests / Re: CoronaMtl with Self Illumination as LightMixElement

« on: 2019-03-21, 15:15:15 »

Have you tried using layered materials? It will be slower then self illumination, but you will be able to control light color in lightmix.

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I need help / Re: Distributed Rendering: noise?

« on: 2019-03-16, 17:14:04 »

4x E7-4870 40 Cores @ 2.4G  :)

Damn that's 80 threads. With stuff like this I miss vray with it's buckets, just to see all of them happily bouncing around the render :D