Corona Render Exporter v 0.8 for Blender available

Corona Renderer is a new renderer developed by Ondra Karlik. It's available as a 3DS Max plugin or as a standalone renderer. While the standalone renderer doesn't support as many features as the Max plugin, it's still very fast, very powerful, and can produce very high quality images using a number of different biased and unbiased rendering algorithms.

You can download Corona Standalone here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kgzu0cqy9.../%21Standalone

Download the Blender exporter on bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ohsnapitsjoel/render_corona

Standalone features (and exporter features) include:

• Diffuse, specular color, translucency, opacity, reflection, refraction, and emission image textures (bump/normal mapping are not supported yet)
• Instances / dupligroups
• Mesh lights
• Physically correct sun & sky
• Environment texture mapping (latlong maps only)
• Physically correct depth of field
• Unbiased/consistent rendering with path tracing, light tracing, bidirectional path tracing, progressive photon mapping, and Vertex Connection and Merging
• Progressive and bucket rendering modes
• Blender material conversion to Corona material
• Render passes
• Orthographic camera
• Environment texture ray visibility overrides
• Portal materials
• Point lights

To install and use:

• Download the exporter from bitbucket.
• Extract the exporter and place it in your /scripts/addons directory. Optionally, rename the directory something useful like "render_corona." In fact, name it that way exactly, and everything will be dandy.
• Enable the exporter in Blender's User Preferences > Render category.
• Select Corona as the renderer from the render engine dropdown.
• In the render panel, set the path to the Corona Standalone directory containing Corona.exe
• Set the export path.
• Render. Large scenes may take a while to export and load in Corona, so be patient.

Exporter To do list:

• Convert all materials to Corona materials with a single click and assign default material to objects without materials.

Warnings:

• Every object needs a material, or rendering will fail! This is a hassle in large scenes, but it's currently necessary.
• Only UV-mapped image textures are supported. Other projections and texture types are not supported.
• Some non-manifold and loose geometry (vertices, edges) will break rendering. Geometry needs to be clean. Check the console for errors if rendering fails; Corona will report which .obj files are giving it trouble.