Corona Renderer 1.6 for 3ds Max Released!

Top image: Private Residence Mountains by Thomas Vournazos, Slashcube GmbH

MORE SPEED AND FREE MEMORY

• Up to 200% speed boost in scenes where direct lighting from HDRI environment is dominant, compared to Corona 1.5.2
• 5x faster LUT parsing
• New stratified random sampler makes noise disappear faster
• Glare is rendered 33% faster
• Interactive rendering is virtually a real-time experience now thanks to subsampling; refresh rate was also improved, and unnecessary restarts fixed
• Support for the latest Embree provides an additional 2-3% speed boost
• Memory usage is lower when using deformable motion blur

REWORKED DISTRIBUTED RENDERING

• New improved UI on master and slaves
• No more missing assets, as they are sent automatically to each render node
• Memory usage is reported by the slaves
• Adaptivity now works with DR…which means faster rendering and that noise limit can be used with DR

NEW FUNCTIONALITY

• Introducing the Corona Image Editor (CIE) – a portable application which loads Corona EXR files and supports all Corona VFB features, including adjusting LightMix and Denoising without re-rendering, and without running your 3D software
• LightMix has been given a generous UI upgrade, and you can now bake its properties directly into the scene
• The Corona VFB now features curves, sharpening/blurring, and various UI improvements
• Shift-click to add new render regions, and Ctrl-click and drag their borders to make them fuzzy; regions’ size and position are also saved within the file
• Corona Scatter can now scatter in regular patterns, and on splines
• Triplanar map lets you forget about seams and stretching on complex organic and geometric forms
• Multimap UI has been enhanced with frequency spinners and random gamma
• Round Edges is now virtually impossible to distinguish from real chamfered geometry, and it renders faster
• Corona Lights with directionality enabled are not rendered black anymore
• Bloom and glare now works with spherical VR renders, without seams or distortion
• Stereo images without the spherical projection can be used to create classic side-by-side stereo images and animations
• Corona Bitmaps can now be rotated using degrees when used in the Environment slot

ADDITIONAL GOODIES

• The long awaited terminator shading fix is finally here! The faceted shading on low poly objects, visible especially when bump mapping was used, is a thing of the past!
• A free set of IES profiles is now included in the installation (thanks Real-IES for providing these!)
• New photographic LUTs have been included (thanks to Kim Amland, known as Dubcat on the forums, for providing these!)
• Rendering progress on Windows taskbar lets you see progress while using other applications
• 3ds Max 2018 is supported

• You can buy Corona Renderer from Evermotion Shop
• More info on Corona site.