Corona Renderer 7 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

[Rhodesy_1]

@rowmanns

@Rhodesy

Cant tell if this is Max 2022 or the last few corona dalies but when I select corona bitmap the file loader doesnt open to select a bitmap. Pressing the load image button doesnt do anything either so had to just use the Max bitmap loader. Renders fine with existing corona bitmaps but they cant be changed as the loader doesnt pop up for me.

Hi,

This seems to work fine for me.. How are you trying to open the bitmap through the slate material editor or some other way? If possible you you provide a short screen recording of the issue and I will investigate further.

Thanks,

Rowan

Yeah just slate editor. Right click add corona bitmap and I get the node but no pop up dialogue to search for and add the bitmap. Just get the corona bitmap options over to the right. If I then click the load map button manually, nothing happens. Might be a max issue then. Just replaced the ENU folder in MAX but still cant open a jpeg in the corona loader. Strange one. Only thing I can think of is I have the ‘turn off dialogues’ script in Max to stop all the annoying pop ups during loading. Not sure if this is related.

[Rhodesy_1]

Just to say this issue has been helpfully resolved by Frood in another thread. The issue related to starting max with quiet mode enabled which also meant that the corona bitmap loader didn’t work. So can confirm not a daily build bug. Sorry for any time wasting

[rowan_manns]

@Rhodesy

Just to say this issue has been helpfully resolved by Frood in another thread. The issue related to starting max with quiet mode enabled which also meant that the corona bitmap loader didn’t work. So can confirm not a daily build bug. Sorry for any time wasting

Hi,

I’m glad it’s resolved, no time wasted. We’d much rather you reported issues like this just in case

Cheers,

Rowan

[scionik]

Hey guys, when can we see “Reworking tone mapping”? It’s so long to wait it…

[rowan_manns]

@Feodor

Good afternoon! Detected unstable Corona behavior during rendering. After running on the render after some time, 1-10 minutes, possibly longer, 3ds max crashes without any messages. This starts happening starting with the “corona-7-3dsmax-daily-2021-05-10.exe”. In an earlier build, this is not observed. I send you a scene “CD_2021.rar” to identify the bug.

Used 3ds max 2021

Thank you

Hi Feodor,

We have fixed this crash and the fix is in todays daily build (v7 2021-06-01). Please let me know if you have any further problems.

Cheers,

Rowan

[Feodor]

@rowmanns

@Feodor

Good afternoon! Detected unstable Corona behavior during rendering. After running on the render after some time, 1-10 minutes, possibly longer, 3ds max crashes without any messages. This starts happening starting with the “corona-7-3dsmax-daily-2021-05-10.exe”. In an earlier build, this is not observed. I send you a scene “CD_2021.rar” to identify the bug.

Used 3ds max 2021

Thank you

Hi Feodor,

We have fixed this crash and the fix is in todays daily build (v7 2021-06-01). Please let me know if you have any further problems.

Cheers,

Rowan

Thank you very much!

[tallbox]

Installed the latest build.
I opened a scene with a few V-ray bushes and grass (the scene was moved from a different HDD where texture paths were not set yet).

When an old corona converter is used, the converter keeps the bitmap nodes (even empty) and has the file name and last path.

When the same is converted with the latest converter - all empty bitmap nodes are replaced with a color map node.

[rowan_manns]

@romullus

@GeorgeK

@romullus

Build Apr 21

Displacement does not work in layered material, not even in the base slot.

Hey, it seems to be working fine here, can you please share more information from your material setup (or a small repro scene)?

I just found that it works in new scenes, but doesn’t work in the legacy ones, at least not in the one i attached here. After reseting render settings, layered displacement starts working here too. Maybe i did mess up with render settings somehow, but i couldn’t find anything that could be causing such behaviour. I would appreciate if you could take a look and let me know what’s wrong with this scene.

Hi Romullus,

This is fixed in todays daily build 2021-06-03.

Cheers,

Rowan

[romullus]

Thank you!

[dionysios_tsagkaropoulos]

Hi guys!

The Dalily Build corona-7-3dsmax-daily-2021-06-01 has a problem with the updated Intel Denoiser.
When I hit the Denoise button, after a few seconds it crashes Corona Image Editor. I use an AMD 5950X and the image is 6.000px wide.

Did you noticed anything as well?

Tonight I’ll install the new Daily Build to check if the problem persists.

Thanks!

[dionysios_tsagkaropoulos]

I Installed now the new Daily Build and the Intel Denoiser crashes the Corona Image Editor as well…

Thanks,

Dionysios -

[neerajgajjar_live.com]

Hey Guys,

Anyone having problem in displacement shown as in attached files.?

Using DB - 2021-06-03 , 3ds Max 2022

[romullus]

That’s by design. Displacement is calculated only inside camera frustum and is not updated on view change when rendering in IR. You need to restart interactive rendering, or make some small change in displacement strength in order to update displacement. Alternative way is to switch from screen size to world size in displacement settings and pay the penalty of higher RAM usage.

[flaviuscristea]

As someone else posted, Intel denoiser now crashes 3dsmax. It hangs a couple of seconds then 3dsmax closes instantly, no errors, no warnings nothing.

[flaviuscristea]

Hi, there’s another bug which I see in this daily build. The IR sometimes doesn’t work. It’s calculating something (see CPU usage) but the image doesn’t update. It seems to happen random. I have to restart the IR for it to work again. Anyone else encountered this? Thanks

[Feodor]

Checking out the new addition for sky, (I had a lot of hopes), but I experienced pain, the presence of an aerial perspective in the background, and its physical absence in the form of volume. It is there in the distance, and it is beautiful, but to make the volume so that the rocks, the city are hidden in the fog, we return again to CoronaVolumeMtl. Which does not take into account the height and rounding of the atmosphere, and that would take into account the need to build a dome and other dances with a tambourine! Pain, sadness. You have done everything to correctly display the aerial perspective in the texture map, and what to do next? I might as well use HDRI, it will have beautiful sunsets and clouds. Why climb to a height of 15,000 meters and still get nothing but a view in the light? I hope the developers understand that these additions to the sky also require changes to the Volume material

[Bowcat]

@Feodor

Checking out the new addition for sky, (I had a lot of hopes), but I experienced pain, the presence of an aerial perspective in the background, and its physical absence in the form of volume. It is there in the distance, and it is beautiful, but to make the volume so that the rocks, the city are hidden in the fog, we return again to CoronaVolumeMtl. Which does not take into account the height and rounding of the atmosphere, and that would take into account the need to build a dome and other dances with a tambourine! Pain, sadness. You have done everything to correctly display the aerial perspective in the texture map, and what to do next? I might as well use HDRI, it will have beautiful sunsets and clouds. Why climb to a height of 15,000 meters and still get nothing but a view in the light? I hope the developers understand that these additions to the sky also require changes to the Volume material

It doesn’t work like vray’s?

V-Ray RT GPU – Aerial Perspective

[Eugene_Danin]

“Aerial perspective” is not available yet. See Daily Builds Changelog

[Feodor]

@lupaz

@Feodor

Checking out the new addition for sky, (I had a lot of hopes), but I experienced pain, the presence of an aerial perspective in the background, and its physical absence in the form of volume. It is there in the distance, and it is beautiful, but to make the volume so that the rocks, the city are hidden in the fog, we return again to CoronaVolumeMtl. Which does not take into account the height and rounding of the atmosphere, and that would take into account the need to build a dome and other dances with a tambourine! Pain, sadness. You have done everything to correctly display the aerial perspective in the texture map, and what to do next? I might as well use HDRI, it will have beautiful sunsets and clouds. Why climb to a height of 15,000 meters and still get nothing but a view in the light? I hope the developers understand that these additions to the sky also require changes to the Volume material

It doesn’t work like vray’s?
https://youtu.be/-yliOz3dg2w

Not! Or I didn’t find it
In trello.com it is worth crossing out the parameter “Aerial perspective”, as a completed task, maybe I’m rushing to conclusions and flogging the fever, maybe this long-awaited opportunity will still come out, since nothing is said about it in the" Daily Builds Changelog". But it will be a shame if it stops there.

[Corona_GK]

@Flavius

As someone else posted, Intel denoiser now crashes 3dsmax. It hangs a couple of seconds then 3dsmax closes instantly, no errors, no warnings nothing.

Can you please archive and submit a scene where the crash occurs? Please feel free to also attach a minidump of the crash if possible. Thanks!

• Private uploader: Chaos
• To acquire the minidump please refer to the following guide: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Where-to-find-3ds-Max-dump-dmp-files-on-the-local-workstation-after-a-program-error-crash.html