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Chaos Scans in Corona for C4D

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Börje:
I have just realised that my Corona Subscription contains Chaos Scans and Chaos Phoenix.
As Phoenix only seems to support Maya and 3DSMax (I'm on C4D) I won't be able to use it.
But how do I use Chaos Scans in Corona for C4D. I have read that it's planned to make Chaos Scans materials available in Cosmos Browser in one of the future releases.
But how do I use those materials now? Where do I find the materials?

I would be happy if somebody could goive me a clue!

Regards

Börje

TomG:
https://docs.chaos.com/display/CRC4D/Corona+Scanned+Material should cover all you need to know about the current (complicated) method of downloading and using Scans.

As a note, all versions of Corona can RENDER Scans materials, but only Premium can EDIT them.

BigAl3D:
Plus, Corona added a Scanned Material preset quite some time ago. The main difference is that you needed to download them from the Chaos web site. When you do import one, they are saved to your computer in a folder called "Chaos Scanned Materials", but you can move them anywhere and load them from a remote drive like I have set up.

You can do basic appearance changes to the material once you have imported it, such as the color and reflectivity for examples. Those materials also are designed to work with a proper UVW setup. I suck at that, so many times I switch to Cube and scale as needed. Works for me.

Tom what do you mean by Premium?

Börje:
Thanks for the replies.

I will check this out. Must have been oversseing that obvious Link to the scans when logged in…

By "edit" you mean edit them in the material editor in C4D, not in any other app outside of C4d, right?

TomG:

--- Quote from: BigAl3D on 2025-03-07, 23:23:16 ---Plus, Corona added a Scanned Material preset quite some time ago. The main difference is that you needed to download them from the Chaos web site. When you do import one, they are saved to your computer in a folder called "Chaos Scanned Materials", but you can move them anywhere and load them from a remote drive like I have set up.

You can do basic appearance changes to the material once you have imported it, such as the color and reflectivity for examples. Those materials also are designed to work with a proper UVW setup. I suck at that, so many times I switch to Cube and scale as needed. Works for me.

Tom what do you mean by Premium?

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Corona comes in two versions, Solo and Premium: https://www.chaos.com/corona#pricing
Where Premium has Phoenix, Scans, Player, etc. I am a bit confused as how you can not know which version of Corona you are using :O

The Scanned Material is not a "main difference", that is how to access Scans right now, going to the website, downloading, loading into the Scanned Material. This applies to both Solo and Premium (ie even with a Scans license, this is how you access Scans). This makes Scans hard to find - I am sure a lot of people don't even know they exist - and makes them hard to use with this visiting a website, downloading and saving, then manually loading it into the material. Which is why moving them to Cosmos will make a major difference :) Easy to find, AND easy to use!

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