How many times Corona, how many times?? (Quad menu issue)

[Sacifair]

(Report ID=CMAX-1198) That’s what @Avi from the Corona team assured us would be reviewed and solved by the devs in the post regarding the quad menu issue in the latest 3ds Max 2025–2026. Corona completely breaks 3ds Max’s new Menu Editor, and no one seems to care about it.

https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=42892.msg229380#msg229380

No updates, no mentions.. just a question into the void.

It’s not Autodesk’s issue, or VRay's, or any other script or plugin.. but Corona’s. When you install a fresh 3ds Max and then add V-Ray, Redshift, Octane, or FStorm... whatever.. the 3ds Max menu works just fine. It follows and saves all commands properly. But once you install Corona, the issue breaks the entire quad menu. And even simply removing those two entries "Open Corona Converter" and "Open Corona Proxy Exporter" has no effect. Because, hey, they’ll still be there no matter what, and they cause problems for all custom quad setups the user tries to build.

@Avi: "Hi, I am unable to reproduce this on my end. Can you please record a simple video showing the problem and share it with me?"
And I shared it.
Seriously, just install Corona on a fresh 3ds Max, delete those two from the quad menu, and check the message log. That's all it takes.

[maru]

Hi, I can understand your frustration, but the answer is simply that there are no news regarding this yet. We do have it logged, but please note that we have lots of bugreports and feature requests, and we need to carefully prioritize them. Even if something makes it to our roadmap, there is no guarantee that it will make into the release. See: https://trello.com/c/7s5cmRFA/272-important-road-map-information-please-read

Also, this isn't something commonly reported by our users. If there are others, who would like to see this improved, please be vocal about it. The more messages we see from our users, the higher the chance that this will be improved in the future.

Sorry for putting it bluntly, but we have limited time and manpower, so we will never be able to make everyone happy, immediately.

[romullus]

Is this issue only about not being able to remove Corona entries from quad menu in Max 2025+?

[Sacifair]

Is this issue only about not being able to remove Corona entries from quad menu in Max 2025+?

Nope, it’s also about the fact that it breaks the entire quad system in later versions of 3ds Max (at least in that section of the quad menu). You can’t remove those entries, you can’t move them elsewhere. All the other entries get messy around those two Corona items and act weird. They don’t save properly, can’t be removed in some cases, and can’t be rearranged. Because of that, you can’t use the Transform quad the way it’s supposed to work.

[romullus]

That sounds quite bad. I'm still on Max 2024, but planning to upgrade to the latest soon, so that's quite concerning. Hopefully Corona team will sort the issue sooner rather than later.