My name is Jonas Noell / Jonas Nöll, and I publish tutorials about anything Lighting & Shading related mainly for 3ds Max, V-Ray 5 and Corona Renderer. I also have an interest in Lighting in general so we will also try to break down basic principles of light.
I am a Germany based Lighting & Shading artist and work in the industry since 2009. I decided to share the knowledge that I have gained over the years in the industry of VFX, commercials and CGI. I am going to teach you what to do in order to compete as a newcomer in nowadays creative market.
Amazing work! Sorry just so I understand - it looks like you can use this diffusion AI to make 2D images... but can you use it to export Video Clips, and use the 3D model to have multiple camera angles etc, cheers :)
hey man, great tut! I was able to fix the bright edge/falloff reflection issue you complained of if using the custom carpaint setup. use a falloff with fresnel of 0 as a blend between a flat and very rough surface with same color and the car paint itself. that fixed it for me, If here were facebook I would have shared screenshots and test renders. it matches the scanned material at least 90%. cheers
Cool plugin. I don't even use 3ds, but I think seeing this kind of integration is really exciting. I'm a 3D animator that's taken the dive into image generation the past couple years, and it's been hugely rewarding creatively. I find the arguments against it to be very circular. People complain it's mediocre because it doesn't take any effort. Then they complain it's not easy enough therefore useless for commercial applications; so if you have to put work into using it, then what happened to the argument that it's too easy? They complain about the ethics, meanwhile they're using "traditional" tools to make advertisements for unethical companies, or paying for tools from unethical companies. Round and round it goes. I've actually done research into the history of photography and it took nearly a century before it was considered a serious artistic tool. Initially the reaction was the same. It was lazy, the results were mediocre, and it ruined the creative processes because all you did was push a button. Critics claimed it could only be a secretary of art, useful for taking slides of real art, but even then a poor substitute. Personally I find using these tools immensely exciting because I know everything I do with it is the first time it's been done. I think it takes resolve to explore these tools without getting swept up in all the hype and negativity. Ironically, it requires you to have a clear personal vision in order to get the most out of it, which all the critics fail to recognize.
Of course, it is just using ComfyUI in the background. It can't do anything that you couldn't already do with ComfyUI. The novelty is the convenience and direct integration making it frictionless to use.
Why everyone is always so sure that it is useless in a professional environment. In its current state it has many usecases already if you are creative about implementing it.
it's nothing but a peace of shit!!!!!!!! because it does not allow you to use your checkpoint . it even does not allow you to deselect the model you do not want to use for the download?!!!!!!!!! why should I have to download so many unnecessary things
Yeah recently going through all my recent projects and test what the AI would have come up with. You can get a good feeling for its potential but also it’s limitations! 😃
Another amazing vid @JonasNoell! This is indeed a game changer for me. Trying it out for matching background landscapes instead of tediously modeling/lighting/texturing. Using this combined with other AI tools like Topaz upscaler or Magnific to further add enhancements.... the possibilities are crazy! Clients will especially like this and you can charge them an additional fee for design explorations or artistic styles.
Yeah exactly that what I was thinking as well, should work really well for MattePainting replacements, even with the possibility to project that directly on some simple geometry for parallax. Can definitely simplify a lot of think you would normally have some high quality assets or some matte painting skills to have decent results
@@JonasNoell hmmm never thought of using it for parallax. That would be amazing use for 3d orthographic projections for say 3d floor plans! Gotta try it out.
Thank you Jonas for the video... may I ask you if there is an option to use inpaint mask feature, where you can improve some parts locally, especially 3d people?
There doesn't seem to be an option for this (yet?) though ComfyUI/SD supports this. I hope this will be just a matter of time as this is the first release of the tool. This would be also my most requested feature. I would also like to have localized prompts for diffferent ObjectIDs or Masks for example, also possible in ComfyUI but not existent within tyDiffusion yet...
tyDiffusion uses ComfyUI in the backend, so yes it is the same stuff. The innovation is the direct and seamless integration into the 3d software, which at least for me makes it accessible. Didn't use it before through ComfyUI as it was annoying, slow, hacky but now through tyDiffusion I do and would be stupid no to. In CGI NOT experimenting with it would be a no go. If you literally can't see any usecases for this and it is and always will be a waste of time for you then I can't help you :-)
"Tydiffusion comfyUI engine could not be started.Try running 3ds max as administrator." I see this box. I have this problem can’t generate.Please how can I solve this.
Have you tried running 3ds max as an administrator? :-) If yes try to get some support from TyFlow directly, I can't give you much technical support as it worked flawless for me
I'm very positive about Stable Diffusion, its very exciting, not like people who complain about it all the time . However, i'm trying to look how i can use it in the Arch Viz industry, but there's just not a lot it can do. If you ask it to draw a pretty house, yes it can do that. If you ask it do draw a very specific house based on very specific architectural drawings, measurements and QS materials & surfaces, not at all! Its a toy at this moment in time. It can do great organic, general, abstract pictures, textures, etc. not a lot of very specific tasks in the practical real world.
I don't think at the moment you can use it professionally as a One-Button-Solution kind of thing. For me it is a gamechanger because I can quickly try out new ideas, get references. It's basically a reference search engine on steroids which can give you an idea about how the final result could look like. So for me at least it is an inspiration collection tool, because as you described it lacks the fine control and precise revisions required in daily production. So try to use it what it's good for and we will see what the future brings :-)
I´ve been using here in the office basicaly to find moods. If you have a reference image it works even better, it´s perfect to bring to a meeting and decide the project direction, even though the builing is not exactly how it should be.
For me it is gamechanging as before I didn't use ComfyUI/SD for my daily work as it was too troublesome to export everything, leave your 3d software, deal with the hacky user experience of ComfyUI, so apart from some simple initial testing I didn't use it much. Now with tyDiffusion that is different as it is integrated so seamlessly that you would be stupid to not use it at least during concepting phase or when figuring out how you want the end result to look like. It is not a One-Button-Final-Result thing but more like a image search engine on steroids which can give you much better and faster ideas and references than traditionally.
I agree. Not to mention the complexity of a single render setup. Also there are other AI generators out there which make something similar. Though I'm a paid tyFlow user I cannot see to much use cases... maybe a viewport IPR and / or an animation rendering mode would be a real game changer.
@@JonasNoell Im sorry Noel but I cant agree with you there. If I wanted some lovecraftian abstract approximation to life to know what something might maybe look like, I'd just sniff some shrooms. This is just the enshitification of your ability to imagine. I am yet to see anything spewed by these scrape generators that I can honestly say that is interesting to me. Plus the whole morality of using these generators in the first place. I hope you don't start putting out more content related to this.
So you can’t even see this being useful as an inspirational tool? So I’m a full time lighting and shading artist and I’m confronted every project every day with a blank viewport filled with 3d models and some rough description of what the client wants. How would that not be useful to me? It’s basically reference search on steroids. The client wants a pirate ship made out of cheese? Just see what would come out of the AI and see how I would translate that into a 3d scene and shader? Good luck finding something like this on google. I think you assume it is a solution to just press a button and get something finished. It’s not like this. I really struggle to see how you can see 0 use case of this. Nobody is forcing you to make trippy drug trip animations, you can use it for whatever you want. Use it for what’s useful to you. I’m not saying it’s the be all and end all of traditional way of doing things, as of now it’s a tool that can be used and should be used. And if that becomes a valuable tool for me I will of course continue to make videos about it as I try to provide most valuable content to my followers out of a production perspective. How about you make a video how crappy and useless it is if that is your opinion. Would be interested to see your take on it.
Should be there by default, in fact there is no way to remove it manually :-) Try switching to Scanline render and then back to V-Ray and see if that does anything
It is just camera projection the image one the model, there are lots of issues as stretching and being dependant on the camera perspective. Unwrapping is not dead for sure, but I guess there will be AI unwrapping tools which will do the job in the future ;-)
I haven't heard or read anything about those requirements as of now, but I haven't really tried animation yet so I can't tell for sure. Where did you read this?
@@JonasNoell i cant find the thread where i read this, i think it was tyson himself on the tyflow forum.. explanation was that to render animation you need to load multiple large ai models into vram..
@@pantov Ok interesting, as said I will try animation soon do see how this works. Though I have a GPU that has 24GB Ram, so if that's the requirement I probably wouldn't notice it. Maybe just make a post in the tyflow Forum if you want a reliable answer. 🙂
@@JonasNoell yeah i was planning to that a bit later, tyson is flooded with forum posts at the moment :-) i got 11gb on my workstation, but i got a render node that has 16gb but slower gpu, havent tried it there yet.. thanx for your reply, looking forward to your furter tyflow vids. cheers mate!
Art-producing AI, to me at least, is like a sandbox for professionals to play in. Not only is it currently a waste of time, but people need to put down the toys and get back to real work. It's important to recognize that the images generated by AI are frequently derived, either partially or entirely, from existing art and photography found online. This practice is not only questionable but also disrespectful to original creators.
@@E_Clip The fact that art is still very much alive (drawing, painting, digital art, concept art, 3D animation, motion graphics, graphic design, etc.), and photography is dying a quick and painful death (video, billions of stock photos, Instagram, and filter-driven selfies), speaks for itself.
great tutorial! Have you experimented with animation yet? When I get a prompt that looks good as an image but then run it through animation, it looks completely different. Have you experienced that? I'm so new to AI I'm probably being stupid ;)
Haven't checked out animation yet but will definitely do so. I can imagine making a more advanced 2nd tutorial that covers those features. This one here was mainly for the basics to get you started.
Hi Jonas! I tried to recreate the effect that You are showing in the video but I can't get that clean, bright god rays, but either it's all very bright, or very dark and that rays effect is far weaker then in Your render. Maybe it's that glow effect that You have? What do You use to get that heavy glow on those light rays? I hope it won't be much problem for You to give some advice, cause it really drives me nuts that I can't figure it out!
But how do you even install that OCIO thing for Photoshop? There's no way to download it, this whole github thing is confusing too! Can someone please provide an easy step by step solution?
Hey man, love your videos, I have a question about how can I approach this kind of caustics to work with condensation drops scattered in a can for example, all the tutorials that I see are on how to do caustics in large scale objects, from time to time I have some trouble to get this caustics to work in small scale, do you have any tips about it? tried on vray, corona and redshift, no one seams to be able to handle this.
Thank you for this! Do the nametags have to be a suffix in order to work? Also, under "Render Setup -> V-Ray" there is also a "Color mapping" tab which is not greyed out. In advanced setting you can see Gamma is 2,2 - would this still be correct?
sorry, may i ask a question. i use the render to texture function, and everytime when i press the render button, its crashed. so i cannot use it. i try to use the bake to texture, then it works, but they dont have the sunlight effect as the render to texture? may i ask if you have any idea how to solve this ?
Why do you not use the material that comes with the asset? You said it's done a really bad way but why? Does this only apply to models or is it surfaces as well?
Everything that comes from Quixel Bridge is not setup correctly. For example reflection color, bump intensity, normal orientation and so on. I have a tutorial in my channel how to setup Megascans Assets in V-Ray that goes into the details.
