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[Max] I need help! / Corona's material library materials disappear from my scene.

« on: 2023-02-02, 08:46:16 »

Hi,

I have had this strange problem lately. All corona's own material library materials disappears from scene. Material is black and says no such material. This does not happen with any other materials. Another thing is that forest pack gravels disappear too. Gravel might be working fine a few days and suddenly it's just gone.

I have never had this kind of problem and I have no idea what could be causing it. Could it be some kind of permission issue. Corona material library and forst pack is on c drive. None of my other materials are on c drive.

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[Max] General Discussion / Corona pattern on surface that have holes.

« on: 2023-02-01, 17:29:22 »

Hi,

Is it possible to use corona pattern on a surface that have holes. Corona pattern works ok on solid surface but when I make a hole on it it doesn't work anymore.

Is it even possible to make it work on surface that have holes?

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[Max] I need help! / [solved] I lost licence server.

« on: 2022-08-30, 08:46:05 »

Hi,

I continued my project this morning and corona says to me that license server can't be reached or I am not logged in.

If I click open the license server, firefox says that it can't establish connection.

How can I get my license working again?

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[Max] General Discussion / Moving vertices while IR is on is crashing max 2020.

« on: 2022-08-11, 09:38:42 »

Hi,

I always try to stop IR before moving vertices but I get the crash so many times in a day cause I just don't remember to do it.

I would like to know if this happens with latest version of 3dsmax too? If not I will upgrade.

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[Max] I need help! / Can you have Corona 7 and 8 installed at the same time?

« on: 2022-04-21, 07:33:47 »

Hi,

I just ran into a problem with Corona 8. Substance plugin is not working with Corona 8 and when I asked Adobe about it they said they will support it at some point in the future.

I have tons of scenes made with Corona 7 and substance plugin. I would like to use Corona 8 as there are some features I like. I could use Corona 8 for somes scenes but I would have to use Corona 7 for others.

Is it possible to have Corona 7 and 8 installed at the same time?

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[Max] I need help! / Saving image from interactive renderer crashes max.

« on: 2021-09-10, 15:06:17 »

Hi,

I have this annoying problem that most of the time when I save image from interactive renderer it crashes max. If I don't use interactive renderer it works ok. And many times when I have just rebooted the computer it works ok but after working some time this problem always comes up. Are there any work arounds or is it just me?

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[Max] I need help! / AO behind glass objects.

« on: 2021-07-20, 11:36:54 »

Hi,

Is it possible to get AO pass on objects that are behind glass objects in one go? Or is the only solution to hide glass objects when you are rendering AO pass?

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Hardware / Why 3950x cores operate lower when rendering than playing games.

« on: 2021-03-16, 15:35:21 »

Hi,

I am just wondering that all my cores are 4.266 when idle or gaming. When I start rendering in corona all cores drop to 3.8. Why is that? I guess there would be some benefit if all cores would operate at 4.266 during rendering.

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[Max] General Discussion / Floor plan and skylight.

« on: 2021-03-09, 18:13:13 »

Hi,

I am doing a simple floor plan where I have floor plane and walls. I am using skylight to get even light. Problem is that I also get ambient occlusion happening at floor and wall intersections. Is there any way to get rid of ambient occlusion? Do I have to use other kind of lightning or is there any way to just disable ambient occlusion?

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[Max] I need help! / [solved] Round mirror reflection problem.

« on: 2020-11-11, 08:01:37 »

Hi,

I am doing a scene where I have round mirror. The reflection in the mirror looks like fisheye distorted reflection. I can see most of scene behind me in the reflections. If I put rectangular mirror in the scene I have normal reflection. I can see in the reflection just what's directly behind me. How can I get normal reflection to round mirror that does not look like fisheye distorted reflection?

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[Max] General Discussion / Wide panorama picture?

« on: 2020-09-16, 07:29:26 »

Hi,

Photographers are taking wide panorama shots where they combine 2 or 3 shots to make wide panorama pictures. I was trying to do similar shot of interior space but when I combined the shots I always got some kind of distorted image. Is it possible to make clean wide panorama picture and what is the correct workflow for it? How should I move or rotate camera between shots?

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General CG Discussion / 360 degree rotation of house model

« on: 2020-07-03, 14:00:04 »

Hi,

What software or methods do you use for making 360 degree house or model rotations? I need to make house model that people can rotate in web browser.

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Hardware / rtx 2070 vs gtx 1080 ti

« on: 2020-06-02, 09:40:33 »

Hi,

I previously used 3dsmax 2019 and corona renderer with 1080 ti. I am using 3dsmax 2020 on my new system with rtx 2070. I thought that 2070 will be abit slower or the same as 1080 ti. When I opened my latest scene I was surprised that 2070 rendered interactive view almost in real time and only needed abit to clear the picture. Something that my 1080 ti was not able to do by far. Is corona interactive viewport taking advantage of rtx tech? In games these cards are pretty close to each other but is it totally different in interactive rendering? Or is the new system just snappier.

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General CG Discussion / Color correct plugin.

« on: 2020-06-01, 23:21:45 »

Hi,

I just installed 3dsmax 2020 to new computer and opened latest corona scene. Scene opens fine other than I get error for missing color correct plugin. I used 2019 previously.

Do you know where I could find color correct plugin for 3dsmax 2020? Developers site is not accessible.

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Hardware / Threadripper 2970WX or 3960X

« on: 2020-04-28, 06:42:55 »

Hi all,

I am buying a new render workstation. I am wondering which 24 core to buy. I have read the tests and know the differences. Has anyone used both processors and can say that 3960x justifies the price difference. In corona difference is not huge but is that single core difference that big. I mean does 2970x feel slow compared to 3960x when you are not using multi threaded apps. 3960x means newer motherboard and price difference just get bigger. One thought was to go with cheaper and overclock it and save 500 euros. I just can't get rid of the thought " poor single core performance" when talking about 2970x.