Corona Vs. FStorm: Which One To Choose? | 3ds Max

Just to make one thing clear, Corona and Fstorm are not the only options to choose from, there are rendering engines like V-Ray, Redshift, etc., that do an equaly good job!

I really appreciate this comparison! I love the simplicity, speed and realism of Fstorm and I want to see it succeed as a render engine. I've been a V-Ray user for as long as I remember. It's very powerful and feature rich, but dang, Fstorm looks mighty fine too! I will try it out now that got a 3090. BTW, I thought that the image on 7:17 is a real life photo! 🤯 You've got a sub. I'm eager to see more Fstorm stuff

Damn that mattress looks great!

Any chance you can share some ideas on how you set up the glass tile in fstorm?

can you share your fstorm settings? or will you give us an indepth video on what settings to tweak it? Thanks

Wont VRAM get used more by textures rather than polys? Also how would VRAM usage be, in a large project, like interior rendering or big 2 floor housE?

Wow that was fast! Thanks for covering this! Cheers! EDIT: One more thing with Corona and complex shaders - I have noticed it heavily impacts render time. I have a super complex skin shader in one of my projects, that uses multiple UDIM textures, then I also have a layer for tattoos (so I can removed them or add them as needed), and one for dirt, SSS maps, dynamic bump maps for skin stretch / compression, dynamic displace maps for cellulite on compression, well you get the idea. Of course for any final animation render I would have to spend time optimizing, but it would take time, but if I didn't, the renders would be painfully slow. Working with very complex shaders is definitely one of Corona's weak points. I find that the Corona built in de-noiser works reasonably good to preserve details, but you have to be well under 10% noise for it to be able to tell the difference between noise and detail, so you are still rendering for a fair chunk of time. I also have used the denoiser on full, with a high radius value, on a VERY noisy render (a few passes), and you get a sort of stylized cartoon effect - works well for that "cartoony" look, or for maybe concept art - not good for archvis though ...

Hey man. Curious to know how you managed to convert the scene from Fstorm to Corona. I haven't had any luck when trying to convert scenes between these two engines.

My 2 goto renderers, especially fstorm. It's just no nonsense simple and works. Key is understanding cascading mix materials. You can do anything then.

thanks for this. As for your issue in corona material changes in the VFB - i have the exact same CPU and mine is instant - so there must be something else going on for you.

New to FStorm, but man.. it is pleasure to use.

The tiling on the wall looks inverted on the FStorm render image ... Problem with the normals?

I don't know, the fstorm results with me for some reason give a way more realistic feel to the renders, has anyone tried the 4080/4090 and compared the times woth the 3090?

I am a Vray user since its launcehd and always loved it, but....... after using corona 6 for the first time i instantly realised one thing, corona gives me the look instantly without any effort as compared in Vray. I have also used Octane but I have to agree Octan is viciously fast in look dev and final renderings as well and results are as good as in corona but some how i still struggle in octane to achieve final look of lighting and how the surface behaves on lighting in most conditions, Corona wins for me.

What do you think about Arnold vs these two?

Did you try Maxwell renderer maybe?

I wish there was one of them available in Blender. Thank you for the video, another very good one.

all of that renderers are tooo long to render. I was needed to create 2 min archviz video. I used Cycles X on gpu and got around 1 min per frame. Anyway in took 2 days to render... Thinking of to switch to UE5. 13 min on one frame....no no no)

How can we convert corona materials into fstrom materials? Is there any possibility?

In one of my projects using Fstorm I had 210 million polygons and it was still going strong (around 11Vram used on RTX3090) You just have to instance stuff and you will be fine :)))