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[Max] General Discussion / Total Chaos 2020 super early bird savings!
« on: 2019-12-20, 14:34:52 »

The early bird catches the worm... but the super early bird gets Total Chaos 2020 tickets at the lowest price they will ever be! Book your spot for this three-day CG extravaganza before Jan 9th at http://bit.ly/TC2020A

What to expect: Technical and industry insight from huge names in the worlds of VFX, art, architecture and more, a keynote packed with exclusive announcements, and a chance to meet and mingle with artists, developers, studios, and more!

We can’t wait to see you in Sofia in May!

PS - also, it's the planned launch of Corona Renderer 6 too https://trello.com/b/EfPE4kPx/corona-road-map-3ds-max


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News / Merry Christmas to all Coronauts everywhere!
« on: 2019-12-17, 19:36:53 »
As 2019 comes to a close, our thanks go out to the most important people in the development of Corona Renderer - you, our users! All of us here at Chaos Group would like to wish you a wonderful holiday season, and many happy renderings in 2020!

We'd also like to announce that our office will be closed from Monday December 23rd until Wednesday January 1st inclusive - support will be limited during this time.


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News / Sad News
« on: 2019-12-03, 14:13:25 »
Dear all,

We are mourning the unexpected passing of our beloved colleague Jaroslav Krivanek, who died as a result of an accident. We are deeply shocked. We loved Jaroslav and we will remember him as a great person, colleague, teacher and friend. He was the backbone of our R&D in Chaos Czech and a great leader.

We are sending our deepest condolences and sympathy to his family and loved ones.

Jaroslav was devoted to the lifting of our Chaos Research division. While we will carry on the development of Corona and related projects, our plans for a dedicated research department will have to be postponed.

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News / Corona Renderer 5 for Cinema 4D released!
« on: 2019-11-27, 23:29:23 »
Corona Renderer 5 for Cinema 4d released!

This release optimizes memory usage and adds many useful workflow tools

Full details and download: https://corona-renderer.com/blog/corona-renderer-5-for-cinema-4d-released/


Some of the highlights:

- New 2.5D displacement saves significant memory and reduces parsing times
- Caustics are faster and need less memory, and respect include/exclude lists for Corona Lights
- New Corona Sky object allows multiple environments for LightMix (and Physical, Solid Color, HDRI, or any Shader as an environment)
- Greatly improved handling of Corona Proxies (which now include animation)
- New Select Material and Shader for self-contained "mini-library" that an object takes with it
- New Multi Shader to allow randomizing of colors or textures between objects or sub-objects
- Compatibility with the native Cinema 4D Background object
- New Shadowcatcher Illuminator option for Corona Lights
- And more!

For those of you who have tried Corona before and your 45-day trial expired, we've automatically refreshed the demo period to give everyone an extra 14 days so you can try out all the new features! Simply download and install Corona Renderer 5, and you can activate the refreshed demo period right from within Cinema 4D. Enjoy!

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News / Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max released!
« on: 2019-11-05, 17:32:04 »
Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max released!
This release optimizes memory usage and render times across the board, with particular focus on displacement and caustics.

Full details and download: https://corona-renderer.com/blog/corona-renderer-5-for-3ds-max-released/


Some of the highlights:
- 2.5D displacement: saves significant memory and reduces parsing times
- Caustics improvements: saves significant memory and renders faster, plus other improvements
- Overall memory, parsing time, and render time savings for all scenes (no changes required!)
- New hair and skin materials added to the Material Library
- Hair rendering (Max native, Ornatrix, or Hair Farm) needs less memory
- Various quality of life improvements, UI tweaks, and bug fixes!

For those of you who have tried Corona before and your 45-day trial expired, we've automatically refreshed the demo period to give everyone an extra 14 days so you can try out all the new features! Simply download and install Corona Renderer 5, and you can activate the refreshed demo period right from within 3ds Max. Enjoy!

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News / Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max (Release Candidate 1) is out now!
« on: 2019-10-14, 16:29:08 »
Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max (Release Candidate 1) is out now!

Everyone with an active FairSaaS or Box with Subscription license has access, and the download is in the usual location: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mswauuv1afec8am/AAA5OKrd_QujokDM3mxQ7S40a

A Release Candidate is close to being the final release, but we need your feedback to catch any remaining bugs or other issues from real world testing.

Corona Renderer 5 is focused on optimizing speed and reducing memory usage - here are some of the optimizations that this version brings:
- Caustics speed optimized
- Overall optimizations in geometry storage (most visible benefits will be seen with displacement, and scenes with very complex geometry)
- 2.5D Displacement introduced, for even more significant improvements to memory and render time savings when displacement is used
- Overall optimizations including for geometry pre-processing, scenes with a very large number of instances, the Corona ColorCorrect, and more!
- Also, various quality of life improvements (improved legibility of render stamp, notification in VFB title bar if a render is IR, and so on)
- And of course various bug fixes to round it all out!

Please post all bug reports, questions, etc. on the main Corona Renderer 5 Daily Builds thread at https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=25036

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News / Corona Renderer 4 for Cinema 4D (Hotfix 3) released!
« on: 2019-09-26, 19:18:20 »
Corona Renderer 4 for Cinema 4D (Hotfix 3) released!

No list of fixes this time, as this hotfix is solely to add compatibility with Cinema 4D R21.

Download now from https://corona-renderer.com/download

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News / Corona Renderer 4 for Cinema 4D released!
« on: 2019-06-17, 19:49:39 »
Corona Renderer 4 for Cinema 4D released!

Full details and download: https://corona-renderer.com/blog/corona-renderer-4-for-cinema-4d-released/


Some of the highlights:

- Caustics! Easy to use, and fast to render, the "missing link" in realism in today's scenes
- Interactive Rendering in the Cinema 4D viewport
- Pick objects, and set DOF focus point in the VFB
- Fisheye mode for the Corona Camera Tag
- Intel AI Denoiser (works on any CPU)
- Stacked Materials respect displacements
- Multiple Suns for LightMix
- New Inside mode for Corona Volume materials

For those of you who have tried Corona before and your 45-day trial expired, we've automatically refreshed the demo period to give everyone an extra 14 days so you can try out all the new features! Simply download and install Corona Renderer 4, and you can activate the refreshed demo period right from within Cinema 4D. Enjoy!

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News / Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max released!
« on: 2019-06-10, 19:55:54 »
Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max released!

Full details and download: https://corona-renderer.com/blog/corona-renderer-4-for-3ds-max-released/



Some of the highlights:
- Caustics! Easy to use, and fast to render, the "missing link" in realism in today's scenes
- Pick objects, and set DOF focus point in the rendered image (IR viewport, and VFB)
- Fisheye mode for the Corona Camera
- Intel AI Denoiser (works on any CPU)
- Multiple Suns and Environments for LightMix
- New Corona Select Material and Map, so an object can "store" multiple materials or maps along with it

For those of you who have tried Corona before and your 45-day trial expired, we've automatically refreshed the demo period to give everyone an extra 14 days so you can try out all the new features! Simply download and install Corona Renderer 4, and you can activate the refreshed demo period right from within 3ds Max. Enjoy!


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News / Corona Renderer 4 for Cinema 4D (Release Candidate 1) is out now!
« on: 2019-05-30, 18:24:21 »
Corona Renderer 4 for Cinema 4D (Release Candidate 1) is out now!

Everyone with an active FairSaaS or Box with Subscription license has access, and the download is in the usual location:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mNjnair6efcLneqZ_l3lRpdsadZ4Pp0r

A Release Candidate is close to being the final release, but we need your feedback to catch any remaining bugs or other issues from real world testing.

Here are just some of the main features in Corona Renderer 4:
  • Caustics: reflective, refractive, dispersion, can be enabled per light, fast to render, and easy to set up with no parameters required!
  • Interactive Rendering in the Cinema 4D viewport (not just VFB)
  • Focus and object picker in the VFB
  • Intel Denoising (AI denoising, on any CPU)
  • "Inside Mode" for Corona Volume materials
  • Fisheye mode for Corona Cameras
  • Support for layered displacements
  • Improvements to Team Rendering
  • Multiple suns for use in LightMix
  • Finalized New Light Solver, and new Image Filtering
  • And more!

For those who have been keeping up with the daily builds, here is the changelog since the last daily build:
  • Added:
    • Show status of interactive viewport in main status bar
    • Support for [1] and [2] modifiers in node material editor mouse navigation
  • Fixed:
    • Fixed random NaNs appearing in tonemapping pipeline
    • Fixed freezes of interactive viewport in some complex scenes when hardware OpenGL is disabled

Please post all bug reports, questions, etc. on the main version 4 Daily Builds thread at https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=23347

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News / Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max (Release Candidate 3) is out now!
« on: 2019-05-30, 16:41:40 »
Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max (Release Candidate 3) is out now!

Everyone with an active FairSaaS or Box with Subscription license has access, and the download is in the usual location: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mswauuv1afec8am/AAA5OKrd_QujokDM3mxQ7S40a

A Release Candidate is close to being the final release, but we need your feedback to catch any remaining bugs or other issues from real world testing.

Here are just some of the main features in Corona Renderer 4:
- Caustics: reflective, refractive, dispersion, can be enabled per light, fast to render, and easy to set up with no parameters required!
- Focus and object picker in the VFB
- Intel Denoising (AI denoising, on any CPU)
- Multiple suns and HDRI environments for use in LightMix
- Finalized New Light Solver, and new Image Filtering
- Fisheye mode for Corona Cameras
- The Corona Select map and material
- And more!

And here are the changes since RC 2:
  • Fixed crash when editing render regions shortly after render is (re)started
  • Fixed Corona Scatter to support maps using Object XYZ mapping.
  • Fixed CoronaTriplanar “rotation” being labeled as “offset” in additional parameters in slate material editor
  • In Corona Scatter, the plus button for Instanced objects can now add CVolumeGrid objects.

Please post all bug reports, questions, etc. on the main version 4 Daily Builds thread at https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=22530

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News / Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max (Release Candidate 2) is out now!
« on: 2019-05-28, 16:29:01 »
Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max (Release Candidate 2) is out now!

Everyone with an active FairSaaS or Box with Subscription license has access, and the download is in the usual location: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mswauuv1afec8am/AAA5OKrd_QujokDM3mxQ7S40a

A Release Candidate is close to being the final release, but we need your feedback to catch any remaining bugs or other issues from real world testing.

Here are just some of the main features in Corona Renderer 4:
- Caustics: reflective, refractive, dispersion, can be enabled per light, fast to render, and easy to set up with no parameters required!
- Focus and object picker in the VFB
- Intel Denoising (AI denoising, on any CPU)
- Multiple suns and HDRI environments for use in LightMix
- Finalized New Light Solver, and new Image Filtering
- Fisheye mode for Corona Cameras
- The Corona Select map and material
- And more!

And here are the changes since RC 1:
- Fixed caustics not working with subsurface scattering
- Fixed Bloom and Glare progress bar disappearing after closing and reopening the VFB
- Fixed slow closing of curve dialog in CoronaColorCorrect map
- Fixed crash when using distance map with displace modifier on 3ds Max 2016 and older
- Fixed crash when using the “Show VFB” button after stopping IR render in docked VFB
- Small UI tweaks

Please post all bug reports, questions, etc. on the main version 4 Daily Builds thread at https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=22530

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News / Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max (Release Candidate 1) is out now!
« on: 2019-05-24, 15:50:52 »
Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max (Release Candidate 1) is out now!

Everyone with an active FairSaaS or Box with Subscription license has access, and the download is in the usual location: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mswauuv1afec8am/AAA5OKrd_QujokDM3mxQ7S40a

A Release Candidate is close to being the final release, but we need your feedback to catch any remaining bugs or other issues from real world testing.

Here are just some of the main features in Corona Renderer 4:
- Caustics: reflective, refractive, dispersion, can be enabled per light, fast to render, and easy to set up with no parameters required!
- Focus and object picker in the VFB
- Intel Denoising (AI denoising, on any CPU)
- Multiple suns and HDRI environments for use in LightMix
- Finalized New Light Solver, and new Image Filtering
- Fisheye mode for Corona Cameras
- The Corona Select map and material
- And more!

And here are the changes since the last daily build (for those who have been testing as releases come out):

- Changed the way CProxy visualization method interacts with the "keep in memory" checkbox - All the visualization methods are now always available and when the method is set to full mesh, the "keep in memory" checkbox is disabled because we need the proxy data in memory to display full mesh
- Fixed caustics solver causing fireflies when glossiness of reflection or refraction is lower than 1
- Fixed CoronaDistance map not working in displace modifier
- Environment overrides have been moved from environment dialog back to render settings.
- Added checkboxes enabling generation of caustics to Sun, Light, LightMtl and Environment (this one is located in the caustics rollout in the render settings)
- Fixed some some scenes rendering much slower when both adaptivity and high quality filtering were enabled at the same time
- Fixed high quality filtering sometimes producing NaNs (producing completely black VFB with bloom & glare enabled)
- High quality filtering is now auto-disabled in IR when the IR preview denoiser is enabled
- Added checkbox to VFB history tab for switching between using the current or the stored postprocessing settings
- Updated Intel AI denoiser to version 0.9.0
  - Up to 38% lower memory consumption
  - The denoiser now displays its progress and can be cancelled
  - Few bugfixes

Please post all bug reports, questions, etc. on the main version 4 Daily Builds thread at https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=22530.0

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News / Corona Renderer 3 for Cinema 4D (Hotfix 2) released!
« on: 2019-03-29, 17:07:08 »
Corona Renderer 3 for Cinema 4D (Hotfix 2) released!

This release fixes an issue with the new light solver which could occasionally result in black pixels (NaNs) appearing in renders.

Download from https://corona-renderer.com/download

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News / Corona Renderer 3 for 3ds Max (Hotfix 2) released!
« on: 2019-03-28, 15:23:54 »
Corona Renderer 3 for 3ds Max (Hotfix 2) released!

This release is specifically to add support for 3ds Max 2020; there are no other changes.
Download from https://corona-renderer.com/download

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