Chaos Corona 11 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Changelog

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If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
corona-11-3dsmax-daily-2023-07-10.exe

Note: All changes in this build will be released in a v10 Hotfix

General

• Fixed issue where Cosmos freezes 3ds Max if closed too quickly after start.
• Fixed issue where using "Camera physical size" with UHD/4K cache led to freeze.
• Fixed issue where using "Camera physical size" sometimes broke object picking from VFB.
• Fixed issue where CIE crashes after deleting Curves tone mapping operator with an opened editor.
• Fixed issue where creating a region during pre-rendering phases led to a crash.

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If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
corona-11-3dsmax-daily-2023-09-06.exe

General

• Bucket rendering - improved decision when to revert to random pixel rendering based on render regions and rendering mask.
• Intel OIDN denoiser can now use the GPU for denoising - updated to version 2.0
• If a compatible GPU is found, the denoiser will automatically be switched to use it, otherwise we will fallback to the CPU
• Can be overridden in the devel/experimental rollout
• Nvidia driver version 522.06 or newer is required
• Support for AMD cards will be added in the future
• Added maxscript alias "excludeMode" for "occlusionFrom" in CoronaAO map to support older scripts.
• Lister - added "Make unique" action for instances
• Lister - added texmap editors to light and light material

Bugfixes

• Fixed freeze occurring when parsing ForestPack scatter with objects that use animation mode.
• Fixed sampling for maps with ObjectXYZ mapping

New Scatter Features!

• Added controls for altitude distribution limitation.
• Added Look At

Scatter

• When converting scatter to geometry, the resulting geometry is automatically set to be visible in rendering.
• When instance is translated directly by the user, new instances no longer appear at its original location when collision avoidance is enabled.
• Fixed being able to select instances even though Edit Instances mode is disabled.
• Fixed rendering of instances with surface color map for surfaces whose diffuse maps use ObjectXYZ mapping.
• Improved scatter warning/error message texts.

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If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
corona-11-3dsmax-daily-2023-09-21.exe

General

• Added option to set input color space of Corona Bitmap. Uses OCIO config selected in 3ds Max for automatic detection of bitmap input space and for transform between color spaces.
• Added new bump/normal map filtering options to Skin and Physical material. It has the following modes;
• 'None' Maps are not filtered - this gives the most accurate look, however it can lead to significantly increased noise/flickering
• 'Linear' - Normal/bump maps are filtered linearly as any other map. This may lead to changes in appearance when using different zoom or resolution.
• 'Roughness modulation' - default. The same as Linear, however the material roughness is modified in order to preserve appearance as much as possible when changing zoom/resolution.
• CIE CLI - Added "--batch" parameter for faster processing of multiple files. An updated script is attached to this thread

Bugfixes

• Improved rendering speed of Triplanar texmap (up to 3x in extreme cases).
• Fixed rare crash which occurred when loading scene using the ForestPack plugin.
• Fixed issue where GRPC will crash when Cosmos service is not running.

New Scatter Features!

• Added support for groups and hierarchies scattering.

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If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
corona-11-3dsmax-daily-2023-10-03.exe

General

• Improved the opening time of scenes that contain CoronaVolumeGrid, CoronaProxy or CoronaFumeFxMod in Max 2024 and newer.
• Added option to Corona Convertor for switching normal filtering mode for all materials in the scene.
• Added global switch to system settings for default value of normal filtering mode for newly created materials.
• Further tweaking normal filtering mode roughness modulation.

Bugfixes

• Significantly improved loading times of scenes (up to 3x).

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If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
corona-11-3dsmax-daily-2023-10-25.exe

New!

• Added Tilemap as new texture
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• Added Intel denoiser as another option for denoising during interactive rendering
• Added real world scale UVW mapping to CoronaDecal

General/Bugfixes

• CIE cli - added back the processing information
• Fixed issue where normal filtering mode roughness modulation did not work with multiple output maps.
• Fixed rare crash that occured when rendering scene with global medium and DOF highlights solver.

Scatter

• Scatter is now installed as an application plugin for 3ds Max 2022 and newer
• Scatter UI has been rearranged (note that removing RollupOrder.cfg from Max UI settings might be necessary for this change to take full effect. It can be found in: "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\20XX - 64bit\ENU\en-US\UI\RollupOrder.cfg")
• Fixed incorrect spline distribution for the rest-pose frame, when "temporal consistency" is enabled

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Please check this article covering the risks of using daily builds: Daily Builds FAQ
If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
corona-11-3dsmax-daily-2023-11-10.exe

New!

• Added Corona Edge Texmap
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• Added Corona Power Tools
• Object Replacer: replaces the selected objects with the objects that were added to the table of replacing objects.
• Pivot Placer:
• Bounding Box: shifts the pivot of the selected objects via the modifying the offset of their axes.
• Point Selection: places the pivot of the selected object to the selected point on that object.
• Transform Randomizer: transforms the chosen objects based on their axes and variation range. Types of transformations are translation, rotation, and scaling.
• Scene Cleaner: cleans the scene from the options that are provided as checkboxes.
• Selection Randomizer: randomizes the selection, of the selected objects in the scene based on percentage/count of the selected objects.
• Added 200+ CoronaMaterialLibrary materials to Chaos Cosmos

General

• Corona TileMap:
• Added tile rotation variation + horizontal/vertical offsets + random individual tile shrinking.
• Added gap distortion.
• Added gap blurring.
• Improved conversion of V-Ray metal materials to Corona Physical material when importing Cosmos assets.
• Lister - Added tracking of nested materials.
• Corona Material Library - Added note that it will be moved to Cosmos in the upcoming versions.
• Improved Corona TileMap UI.

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue where two neighboring tiles at the center always had the same randomization in MappingRandomizer.
• Fixed issue where Intel GPU denoiser was creating a ghosting in interactive rendering.
• Fixed issue where UV offset spinners reset to 0 when clicking down arrow if they have a negative value.
• Lister - fixed inconsistency between 3ds Max and Lister labels in displacement mod.
• AO, RoundedEdges, CurvatureMap now work with MappingRandomizer.
• Fixed rare crash when loading pattern modifier with "Use pattern material" on in Max 2024.
• Fixed crash that occured when additional output of multiple output map was used as input of a scene object (e.g. Scatter)
• Fixed issue where Camera Physical Size did not work with Render selected (pixel mask).
• Fixed issue where Corona Camera physical size box was wrongly transformed in the Max viewport.
• Fixed Curves tone mapping operator slowing down the whole tone mapping UI.
• Fixed VFB history not showing B&G and not saving the enabled state of tone mapping.
• Fixed issue where lister was not synchronized when changing values from 3ds max UI.
• Fixed issue where albedo slider in the Corona Color Picker was not working properly.
• Fixed crash when creating toolbar button from MaxScript code.

Scatter

• Added falloff control for the Altitude limitation.
• Added falloff control for Look At.
• Edge trimming now works for Corona proxies with non "Full mesh" display mode.
• Scatter Look At distance now uses scene units.

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Please check this article covering the risks of using daily builds: Daily Builds FAQ
If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
chaos-corona-11-3dsmax-RC1.exe

General

• Color management:
• Added option to select input color space to Corona Color
• Added option to pick color in current rendering space to Corona color picker
• When working with the OCIO workflow in 3ds Max 2024
• Corona rendering space is overriden by the parameter set in the OCIO workflow settings
• Material tree is evaluated in the rendering space, instead of linear sRGB
• "Color Swatch", "Material Editor" and "Viewport Default" parameters in "Displays and Views" category in OCIO workflow settings are now used when rendering viewport/material editor or displaying color swatches
• Setup LightMix button in Multiple Environment Maps Setup dialog is greyed out when rendering is running.

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue where VolumeGrid intersecting glass material led to artifacts.
• Fixed issue where MappingRandomizer/MultiMap options Polygon and Mesh Element did not work with displacement.
• Fixed rare NAN that could appear when using Caustic solver.
• Fixed issue where Corona Bitmap gamma radio button state lost when "browse images" dialog is reopened in 3ds Max 2024.
• Fixed issue with installer which installed OptiX in the wrong folder.
• Fixed issue where merged Corona proxies didn't load automatically.

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Please check this article covering the risks of using daily builds: Daily Builds FAQ
If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
chaos-corona-11-3dsmax-RC2.exe

General

• Updated Chaos Cosmos service binary shipped with the installer to the latest available version.
• Updated Chaos Licensing server shipped with the installer to the latest available version.
• Added warning when baking LightMix where multiple LightSelect elements share the same LightMtl.
• Reintroduced warning shown when there is black tint in Tone mapping.

Bugfixes

• Fixed TileMap's wrong viewport preview with multiple outputs.
• Fixed rare NAN when using DOF solver.
• Fixed blurring of text in menu for adding tone mapping operators in VFB.
• Fixed TileMap's crop mode to preserve aspect ratio of input tile texture.
• Fixed issue where Corona ColorPicker was not saving colors in Max 2024 Update 2.
• Fixed CTD when showing incompatible maps in SME in Max 2024 Update 2.
• Fixed CTD when opening Lister in scene with nested materials.
• Fixed issue with Standalone installation (missing DLL).

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Please check this article covering the risks of using daily builds: Daily Builds FAQ
If you are familiar with the daily builds and know how to use them, download the newest one here:
chaos-corona-11-3dsmax-RC3.exe

General

• Removed Corona Power Tools from Quad Menu.

Bugfixes

• Fixed incorrect values when setting CoronaBitmap to ACEScg primaries.
• Fixed rare issue where the rendering could get stuck and consume large amounts of RAM.
• Fixed randomization issues in TileMap.
• Fixed crash when exporting scene which uses 3ds Max native maps that are unsupported in Corona Standalone.
• Fixed CoronaLight in versions of 3dsMax older than 2022 showing the mesh of the light in the viewport, even after setting its radius/width to 0.
• Fixed RGB, HSV, CMYK sliders in Color Picker.
• Fixed issue where roughness modulation did not work if the bump goes through rounded edges.
• Fixed possible crash in DR.
• Added missing TileMap's parameter name in Track view.
• Camera lister numeric parameters no longer open columns setting when value is confirmed using enter.

Scatter

• Fixed issue where all scattered instances disappear if one scattered object has zero frequency.
• Fixed missing toobar icons for 3dsMax 2021 or older.
• Improved tooltip for Altitude limitation mode.
• Improved tooltips and UI.