LOVE the new Cosmos addition in the v8 daily - thanks for that!
a few questions i have:
i cannot see correct material previews, the textures not show in the previews of the material sphere, they render correct though then in ipr and final render, so i have some wrong there or is this yet an known issue?
atm it uses the web browser, this seem to conflict with the use in a dropbox folder, probably due the web browser use? (in vray with integrated cosmos browser it works) i can only import downloaded files when i pause the dropbox. i guess cosmos will also get an integrated cosmos window, right?
some materials are very reflective or shiny in comparence to the cosmos originals. the same in vray seem yet at least to me a bit more realistic (like wood floors p.e), i compared for example this “Wood_Tiles_Shiny_04_200cm”. do we need to lower the IOR ?
thanks i read that yes,
but it seems no triplaner involved, like the material from a tree created is 100% transparent in materialsphere, or the trunk shows plain brown, even thogh there is a bitmap in diffuse etc (also no triplanar), etc
When I click on cosmos browser, Firefox opens. But then I get an error message in Firefox. It can’t reach to the server.
Do I need some additional steps to get it working?
Just had this myself I can now pretend to be clever and share what Benji in support told me which resolved it for me:
-Install the latest Cosmos version (I’ve downloaded it from chaos website, Download | My Chaos )
-Close the Cosmos tab in the web browser
-Close C4D
-Run the “Start Chaos Cosmos Browser” app (from your Windows start menu)
-Re-open C4D and launch Cosmos
Thanks for the detailed instruction to get the browser running. The selection of objects is great!
An observation:
Load a Cosmos object and import it. The proxy is scaled to “10” in X, Y and Z, but this gives it the proper and expected size.
Now “Dupilcate to Mesh”. The created mesh is scales to “1” in X, Y and Z, but this also means that humans, for example, are less than 20 cm tall (great if you plan to shoot the next hobbit movie).
Btw, a scale other than 1,1,1 is undesired in C4D in general, at least for objects in their original state.
PS
Would it be possible to store the downloaded objects under their name (and import them in the scene under this name as well)?
So the “Bus 005” gets saved under that name and also appears under this name in the scene, so we don’t end up with several dozens of objects named “Corona Proxy”?
i think i found a small bug yet:
some cosmos objects import with empty material tags, i think this happens when a material is applied more than one time in original cosmos file.
you see this for example on the tree called “Rowan 002”.
when i import it via v-ray it has 5 material tags with 3 unique materials applied tot he 5 tags.
in corona it has also 5 material tags but 2 of these material tags are empty(showing a “?”), - i assume the ones that needed one material applied 2x tot he object:
for the materials that show no preview, as reported above,
i found that this is connected to the overwrite UVW option and the channel 1 which is set there,
if i set it to channel 0 it shows the preview ok, (but then renders wrong), so seems the preview has yet issues with the UVW channel option:
i had some crashes at render time with cosmos objects, i think when i copied them from one scene to another. i have seen the material tab was empty for some reason. when i removed them from scene it did render ok again.
A browser that you can purchase download at no extra charge models models, materials, HDRI skies, and in the future other things, already set up compatible with Corona materials?
OK, so now I get the Cosmos thing. I hadn’t signed in with my Corona login. I was confused since the browser would just take you to their sign in page, but it doesn’t say anything. Very nice benefit indeed.
for me cosmos is quite a game changer and it gets more and more, most of the things are really useful.
that is starts to be available now in Corona makes me VERY happy:)
