Corona for Cinema 4D Help Center / Documentation Updates

[maru]

This thread serves as a support team changelog, where we will be periodically listing our Help Center and Documentation Portal updates (and more).

New in Corona 10 daily builds:
- You can now control clouds color by adjusting sun color. Affected articles:
How to add daylight in Corona for C4D
How to use Corona Sky Clouds - C4D
Corona Sky

- You can now place a camera inside a volume (even if it's an object) or at the interface of multiple volumes (e.g. air and water):
New Volume Resolving in Corona 10
Camera inside volumes playground thread

- Updated NVIDIA AI Denoiser errors article:
NVIDIA GPU AI Denoiser Errors


Other:
- Added a guide, How to create basic materials in Corona for C4D:
How to create basic materials in Corona for C4D

- updated Corona for C4D activation guide:
Activating Corona for Cinema 4D

- We have started a forum cleanup process to make sure all important user reports are addressed correctly, move some threads to the appropriate forum sections, remove spam, etc.

- Created a new article covering issues with dot ( . ) vs comma ( , ) issues in the Corona VFB and how to resolve them (generally, there should be no issues with this anyway):
Entering decimal values in VFB Tone Mapping does not work

- Added a short Cosmos changelog in:
Chaos Cosmos

- other minor fixes


Note: if you spot any issues, something isn't working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

[maru]

The displacement guide now also includes C4D content:
How to use displacement?

Added a new article:
Creating basic materials

(forgotten in the previous entry) This guide also applies to C4D (currently 3ds Max screenshots only):
How to correctly combine Corona Mapping Randomizer, Triplanar, and Normal maps?

(common for Max and C4D) New error message - Corona Decal "Affect Base" only works with Corona Physical Mtl:
Affecting only a part of a base material with a Decal material is only supported if both materials are Corona Physical Materials.

Updated LightMix articles (it is now possible to set up LightMix by layers):
Documentation Portal
and
Help Center


Note: if you spot any issues, something isn't working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

[maru]

New error message: Corona Decal "affect base" option only works when using the Corona Physical Material:
- Affecting only a part of a base material with a Decal material is only supported if both materials are Corona Physical Materials.

Updated tone mapping articles (mostly with info that ACES OT is in the stack by default):
- Help Center
- Documentation Portal

Updated articles on the Corona Proxy:
- Help Center
- Documentation Portal

Added a new article:
- Corona Preferences Window

Updated Interactive Rendering articles to include the "IR Subsampling" option:
- Help Center
- Documentation Portal

Added an article listing all DOF Highlights Solver error messages:
 - DOF Highlights Solver Error Messages


Note: if you spot any issues, something isn't working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

[maru]

Updated the "How to use Depth of Field" guide with the new DOF Highlights Solver info:
- Help Center

Included the new DOF Highlights Solver in Render Settings > Performance Settings documentation:
- Documentation Portal

Updated/simplified the manual installation guide:
- Help Center

Updated information on Corona Decal "Affect Base" options:
- Playground Thread
- Help Center
- Documentation Portal

Added updates related to Corona 10 inside-medium rendering and physical size to the Corona Camera articles:
- Documentation Portal

Added minor updates to the Corona Scanned Mtl article:
 - Documentation Portal

Added minor updates to the Corona Pattern article
- Documentation Portal

Moved commonly used abbreviations from the Help Center to the Documentation Portal:
- Documentation Portal


Note: if you spot any issues, something isn't working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

[maru]

Created a simple documentation for the Corona 10 Benchmark:
- Documentation Portal

Updated the Corona Lister article:
- Documentation Portal

Updated the VFB article:
- Documentation Portal

Updated the IR article:
- Documentation Portal

Moved render stamp variables article from the Help Center:
- Documentation Portal

Created a basic documentation for the tonemapping operators:
- Documentation Portal

Updated multiple articles with the new Corona 10 alpha options for volumes:
- https://docs.chaos.com/display/CRC4D/Corona+Physical+Material
- https://docs.chaos.com/display/CRC4D/Corona+Legacy+Material
- https://docs.chaos.com/display/CRC4D/Corona+Shadow+Catcher+Material
- https://docs.chaos.com/display/CRC4D/Corona+Volume+Material
- https://docs.chaos.com/display/CRC4D/Corona+Scanned+Material
- https://docs.chaos.com/display/CRC4D/Corona+Sky
- https://docs.chaos.com/display/CRC4D/Corona+Volume+Grid




Note: if you spot any issues, something isn't working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.