Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Changelog

[maru]

*You can always get the newest build at the usual location [link]*

[Ryuu]

• New & Improved
  • Preserving materials from overriding now works also for multi/sub materials.
  • Added PhoenixFDOceanTex and PhoenixFDGridTex to the list of maps compatible with Corona
  • CoronaBitmap will now automatically open file dialog when it is plugged into any bitmap slot in render settings
  • TextShader no longer glows in GI and it is also independent on the colormapping (used at the start of the rendering)
  • The new light solver is now on by default
  • Improved autosave:
    • Limitation of the number of kept files now works also when render stamps are used in autosave file name.
    • The file counter is resumed from its last value even after restarting Corona.
    • In case of final render autosave the file name suffix is now "end_<counter>" instead of "end<counter>".
  • Added checkbox enabling/disabling denoised image blending to VFB. It is enabled by default (if denoising is turned on).
  • “Export” and “Export+Render” buttons in render settings now remember the last used export path
  • LightSelect element can be now set to contain all the unassigned light sources
  • Corona color picker now supports alpha value (where applicable)
• Fixed
  • Corona now warns that Color Correct map is not supported in standalone. Falloff is no longer swapping submaterials in standalone.
  • Fixed incorrect shading result of screen-mapped OSL maps
  • Fixed VFB spinners not behaving correctly when dragging the mouse across the top/bottom of the monitor.
  • Fixed occasional flickering of CoronaVolumeGrid when using velocity-based motion mblur
  • More than one light mix element can be displayed in vfb (all light mix elements use the same light mix settings)
  • Fixed bug, where volumetric shaders gave wrong result on the first render, but worked on the second render
  • Fixed different result of region render saved to file, compared to VFB content
  • Fixed 3ds Max Hair and Fur modifier not rendered with "render selected"
  • Fixed DR issue where some assets were not updated after they have been modified
  • Fixed blurring & sharpening producing different result in VFB and in saved images
  • If the motion blur is disabled, IR is no longer restarted when shutter speed of CoronaCamera changes
  • If the depth of field is disabled, IR is no longer restarted when F-stop of CoronaCamera changes

[Ryuu]

• CoronaCamera - changing shutter representation (i.e. switching between speed/angle/duration) when motion blur is disabled no longer restarts IR
• Changing global f-stop now restarts IR if DOF is enabled
• Changing global shutter speed no longer causes scene reparsing in IR when motion blur is disabled

[Ryuu]

• Alpha channel is no longer lost when saving LightMix and/or light select render elements in CIE.
• Bloom & Glare progress bar added to VFB
• Added option to devel/experimental rollout to disable CoronaBitmap auto-reloads when the loaded file is modified on disk. You may consider disabling this feature when the UI performance is degraded as a result of having high amount of CoronaBitmap maps or when the files are stored on slow/networked storage. This is just a temporary measure and will be removed once the CoronaBitmap auto-reload feature is optimized.
• Added option to save/load .conf files in CoronaCamera, same as in VFB
• Fixed tint in CoronaCamera being applied differently from VFB

[Ryuu]

• Added denoising checkbox to CIE
• Fixed memory leak when using hair
• Added object/focus picker to the VFB
  • Available through toggling the new “Pick” mode button in the VFB
  • Left click in VFB select the clicked object (supports the same +SHIFT, +ALT and +CTRL selection modifiers as 3ds Max)
  • Right click launches popup menu allowing to set current camera focus distance to the clicked point (available only for perspective cameras)
  • There is currently a limitation that you cannot pick objects/focus in render regions
  • The current UI is just temporary and we’ll be reworking it in following builds
• Slightly reworked the docked VFB UI
  • Left click now selects the clicked object (again with the usual +SHIFT, … modifiers)
  • The menu button replaced with “Switch viewport” button allowing to replace the docked VFB with any other 3ds Max viewport view
  • Right click anywhere in VFB launches popup menu with options previously available through the menu button (copy to clipboard, ...)
  • Right click on rendered object also allows to set camera focus distance through the popup menu
• Optimized cancel time (up to 80% faster)
• Fixed export to .scn asking about overwriting render output files
• Fixed lightmix with environment lightselect in IR (it was increasing its brightness with each restart)
• Fixed installer not running on older versions of Windows

[Ryuu]

• Added hue shift to CoronaColorCorrect map
• CoronaLights are now drawn in viewport with axis-aligned CoolLines(TM), satisfying the OCD of customers
• Fixed various bugs where different media containers overlap (e.g. multiple VDB grids, scattered geometry containing medium, ...) - example and another
• Added support for motion blur for Ornatrix hair

[Ryuu]

• Fixed some cases of render element data being incorrectly mixed together when using resume from file and DR
• Fixed crashes/freezes at the end of render when bloom & glare is enabled

[Ryuu]

• A bit more readable messages and tooltips related to the legacy switch for new media and refraction behavior
• Added Intel Open Image Denoise to Corona - comparison with NVIDIA denoiser single pass, 50 passes

[Ryuu]

• Added Intel AI denoiser support to CIE - the scene needs to be rendered with the Intel AI denoiser in the first place for this to work
• Fixed crash in IR when using Corona Distance map and some other maps combined with specific 3ds Max maps
• Fixed estimated remaining time being displayed as large negative number at the beginning of render or denoising

[Ryuu]

• Fixed animated IFL texture not updating in IR when frame is changed
• Fixed crash if material editor is rendering preview with animated IFL texture when frame is changed

[Ryuu]

• Fixed the “learn more” link in the media/refraction warning message when a pre-v4 scene is opened leading to wrong page
• Fixed crash when using CoronaFractal in interactive rendering

[Ryuu]

• Reworked VFB render region UI
  • The region button is now sticky. This is a first step in transforming VFB to using separate function modes. VFB stays in this mode until you deselect the region button or select a different mode (e.g. pick)
  • Regions are now editable only in the region mode and in this mode the regions are drawn more thick
  • When multiple smoothed region boundaries (the green boxes) overlap, only the outline is drawn now
  • Regions are now drawn half-transparent outside of the region edit mode
• Changed the way installer installs components.
  • All components that do not require additional downloads (i.e. everything except for Material Library and NVIDIA denoiser) are now always reinstalled even if you're installing the version that is already installed.
  • Material Library and NVIDIA denoiser are still downloaded & reinstalled only if the installed version is different from the one that would be downloaded or if some of their files are missing on the hard drive.
• Other changes
  • Added CoronaSelect map and CoronaSelectMtl material, allowing to quickly iterate through different variations of the scene by select which map/material renders from a list using a radio button
  • Added support for 3ds Max 2020
  • Corona Bitmap automatically reloads modified texture without the need to constantly check it on hard drive
  • Added spinners for color temperature and green-magenta tint to CoronaColorCorrect map
  • Switched scale maps in Corona Scatter to just one map but interpreted in RGB. Its red component affects scale for X axis, green component for Y axis, and blue component for Z axis. Introduced 2 new modes how the map can be interpreted. Legacy scenes get adjusted automatically, whenever possible - https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/12000055675
  • LightSelect elements now have denoising enabled by default (though this is applied only when the denoising is enabled in general)
  • Added more robust inside detection for Corona distance texmap - this mode is now the default
• Bugfixes
  • Fixed crash of Ornatrix hair with motion blur
  • Fixed dialog for creating animated CProxy incorrectly remembering the selected option
  • Fixed 3ds Max crash when using the CoronaUvwRandomizer and the V-Ray renderer.
  • Fixed freezes of CFractal in some situations
  • Fixed inconsistent render quality/performance of CFractal
  • Render stamp help dialog now can be closed with “X”
  • Fixed some rare crashes in displacement with incorrect geometry

[Ryuu]

• Fixed crash when scene is reset or closed while bloom & glare is being recomputed

[Ryuu]

• Added high quality image sample filtering, which clears the noise much faster, also resulting in better anti-aliasing, motion blur and depth of field.
  • This mode is enabled by default for new scenes. For older scenes it is disabled so that they render the same, but you can enable it in the system tab of render settings.
  • There are two limitations at the moment though: the new mode does not work correctly with AI denoisers (both NVIDIA and Intel) and the calculated noise level is sometimes bit higher than with the new filter disabled even when the actual noise in the image is much lower.
  • https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/12000056115
  • Examples:
    • general
    • lights
    • depth of field

[Ryuu]

• Added support for fast rendering of caustics
  • all you need for reflective caustics is to enable the caustics rendering in the performance tab of render settings
  • for refractive caustics you also need to enable the refractive caustics in the material
  • https://corona-renderer.com/comparer/DHcjnQ
  • https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/12000056738-how-to-render-caustics-with-the-new-caustics-solver-
• Fixed occasional NaNs in skin shader
• Fixed CoronaDistanceMap swapping the inside and outside of mirrored meshes
• Optimized CoronaDistanceMap - mesh is reparsed only when rendering (outside of Material Editor). This makes viewport manipulation of related meshes MUCH faster.
• Optimized opening render settings dialog - more noticeable in newer versions of 3ds Max
• Fixed VFB stop & start buttons blinking when IR is restarted