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corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2022-11-21.exe
Note: All changes in this build will be released in a v9 Hotfix
General
- Fixed: Tonemapping pipeline is sometimes reset to default on loading certain scenes
- Fixed issue where IR did not immediately react to changes in CoronaScannedMtl
- Chaos Phoenix - Fixed getting diffuse color from Foam node for newer Phoenix versions (Phoenix 5 nightlies)
- Fixed failing installation of Scatter for earliest 3ds Max version when upgrading from Corona 8 to Corona 9.
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corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2022-11-25.exe
New
- Corona now correctly resolves in which volume the camera lies. The camera can also be given a non-zero physical size, in which case the camera might lie only partially in one volume (e.g. camera half-submerged in water)
- Clouds lighting now depends on the sun color intensity and direct input color settings (if selected in the sun properties)
- Decal Fit to Bitmap’s aspect ratio function now takes into account also cropping present in bitmap (both Corona’s and 3dsMax’s bitmap)
- Added warning to LightMixSetup dialog, when some Light select element contains invalid filename character + replace those characters with ‘_’
- Added option to automatically create lightmix elements by 3dsmax layers
- Added tonemap control viewport shader (as no-op)
- Added ColorCorrectMap display in high quality viewport
- Added button to batch load maps in the multiple environments dialog. It works similarly to the one in Multimap
- User can now set how volume (volume material, sky volume effect and volume grid) interact with alpha channel. + Semi-transparent volumetric effects now also contribute to alpha channel for rays not hitting anything
- Added include / exclude toggle in the right mouse button menu for exclude lists
- Added tooltips for “+, Reset, Preset” buttons in Tone mapping
- CIE - Added tone mapping error reporting when loading an image
Optimisations
- Improved performance when rendering with masks - In cases where the user includes just a small object and the rest of the scene is not rendered we get up to 600% speedup. In non extreme cases it leads to around a 10% speedup
- Improved caustics for higher resolution renders - Bathroom Caustics 1 | Corona Renderer
ChaosScans
- “V-Ray” mentions removed from the material information
- Material is transparent unless some file is loaded, to be consistent with V-Ray
- Added custom bump and displacement slots to CoronaScannedMtl
- Fixed incorrect albedo (displayed as red in albedo render element)
- User can now drag drop vrscans file into the dialog and it will load it
- Added drag&dropping an image accompanying the vrscan file open the vrscan file
- Added support for triplanar mapping in CoronaScannedMtl
- Removed legacy mtsc format from the file explorer filter
- We now show the preview of the material in 3ds Max viewport
Changes
- Re-Enabled out of core textures by default
- CoronaGUI license is released when another renderer is selected
- AO map: improved wording for include/exclude options
Fixes
- Fixed an issue with low CPU usage with CoronaAO and CoronaRoundEdges in IR
- Fixed rare crash occurring when IR is restarted during parsing
- Improved conversion of VRayMtl SSS to CoronaPhysicalMtl
- Fixed: Noise limit working incorrectly with black environment + fisheye camera in user scene, leads to infinite rendering
- Prevented crashes when there is nullptr Atmospheric when a plugin is missing (it will still crash in 3dsmax on opening atmospherics dialog though)
- Fixed issues with material editor previews being much slower to load than in Corona V7
- Fixed support of PhoenixFD in Corona 10 + removed PhoenixFD 3 support
- Fixed DR - Assets that can be found on node are not downloaded anymore
- CoronaMix map should no longer change the randomization when it is plugged into CoronaUvwRandomizer anymore
- Fixed: Viewport Performance is slow when Corona light IES has missing path
- Fixed: “Show in folder” RMB option sometimes opening incorrect folder
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corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2022-12-06.exe
General
- iToo RailClone - Added support for rendering of non-geometric objects (i.e. Lights)
- Fixed issue where error message showing why the user can’t run the installer was not displayed on unsupported CPUs, unsupported Windows versions and users without correct admin privileges.
- Image copied from Corona VFB now has 72 pixels/inch resolution when opened in Photoshop
- Improved AcesOtOperator unmapping in case alpha is 1.0 - Fixes issue that CoronaTonemapControl did not negate the effects of the AcesOT operator.
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corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2022-12-13.exe
General
- Itoo ForestPackPro - added support for animation modes
- Renamed PhoenixFD to Phoenix in error messages.
- Fixed returning to previous value after canceling spinbox scrolling with RMB.
- Fixed a regression - Converting V-Ray dirt texture throwing an error in CoronaConverter
- Fix of sun occluded by clouds, either it was completely cloudy or completely visible.
- Fixed displaying of tone mapping operators after reopening the settings
- Fixed incorrect rendering of triplanar mapping after conversion from VrayScannedMtl
- Fixed crash opening CXR in CIE saved in v9 in v10
- Fixed issue where NaNs were created by saturation
- Fixed an assert in Corona Converter when converting VRayMtl
- Fixed unhandled exception in Corona Converter when converting VRayMtl
- Fixed crash related to displaying Corona ScannedMtl in 3ds viewport
- Updated Chaos Cosmos service binary shipped with the installer to the latest available version
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corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2022-12-16.exe
General
- Drag&Drop vr scan file into Material Editor creates a new CoronaScannedMtl
- CoronaScannedMtl assets are now tracked via the asset tracker
- Fixed issue where rendering materials restarted IR with ForestPack
- Fixed Corona is not using the mesh returned by Forest in “GetRenderMesh”
- Fixed Forest Pack objects not rendered in proxy mode
- Fixed Custom objects aren’t rendered when FP render mode is set to Meshes
- Fixed ForestPack shows up in viewport but not in Render, after base object had quadremesher applied to it
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corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2023-01-02.exe
General
- ForestPack - The instances are now assigned a more meaningful wire color
- Added support for Pattern (EnMesh) assets from Chaos Cosmos
- Pattern - fixed artifacts caused by self-intersection
- Improved handling of anisotropy around UVW discontinuities
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corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2023-01-24.exe
Major Improvements
- Significantly speeding up material editor by caching rendered previews. Full material editor is up to 22 times faster.
- UvwRandomizer(Map/Tex) now supports randomization of position and is renamed to MappingRandomizer(Map/Tex)
General Improvements
- From now on visibility parameter in Object Properties also affects material’s volumetric properties - Object visibility should now work for VolumeGrid, fumeFx and both PhoenixFd volume and foam.
- Re-added support for FumeFX - CoronaFumeFxMod must be applied to the FumeFx object
- Supports FumeFx 6 beta 13+
- CoronaScannedMtl - fixed swapped tooltips
- Enable 3ds max “Normal Bump” in SME when Corona is active renderer.
Bugfixes
- Fixed incorrect viewport display of objects with Scanned Mtl if “Disable transparency” off.
- Fixed interpreting of values in spinbox when decimal point is set to the same value as group separator (values starting with decimal point and out-of-range values).
- Invalid curve loaded from scene is now automatically replaced by default curve.
Regression Bugfixes
- Fixed a crash when adding DirectX shader material to SME with material editor caching active.
- Fixed issue where camera with non-zero physical size caused issues with caustics.
Chaos Scatter
- Fixed shading instability of Corona Multimap set to color scattered instances while using e.g. camera clipping in scatter.
- Fixed user message dialogs not to be hidden behind other windows.
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corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2023-01-31.exe
Major Improvements
- Improved lister 2.0 - New Qt UI
- Now lists Corona Cameras
- Now groups light instances
Bugfixes
- Disabled FumeFX atmospheric effect, since Corona can now shade FumeFX objects by itself
- Fixed a bug where rendering FumeFX in IR and showing FumeFX GPU preview in viewport would lead to crashes when scrubbing the timeline.
- Fixed multiple issues of Material preview cache, which caused material not being updated when parameters were changed.
- Fixed issue where Corona ScannedMtl parameters are reset after deselecting and reselecting the material.
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corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2023-02-16.exe
General
- Improved lister - added option to hide/unhide columns via right-click menu
- Improved lister - columns automatically resize to fit the window, hidden columns are remembered when reopening lister, lister is resized to fit the header when first opened.
- Added tooltip for IR subsampling
Bugfixes
- Changed CoronaMix input name from “Bottom” to “Base” to be consistent with the UI
- Fixed incorrect tooltip for bump intensity in Corona materials.
Regression Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where using missing FumeFX channel would lead to crash
- Fixed crash in lister when changing parameters with Auto Key on, added lister UI update when time changes
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corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2023-02-27.exe
General
- Updated Optix denoiser implementation from version 6.5.0 to version 7.5.0. - Driver version R515 or later is required
- Supports the same GPUs as 6.5.0
- Lister - Hidden columns are remembered between 3ds Max sessions.
- Lister - Columns with checkbox or action button are not resized.
- Clicking on light mix setup and lister toolbar icons without Corona rendering being active now shows a prompt asking you to switch to Corona renderer.
- Replaced WxWidgets dialog for “Channel color mapping” (in VolumeGrid and FumeFxMod) with Qt implementation.
- Added a button expanding action menu to lister. - This allows one to e.g. delete light, set camera as current view, render from camera, etc.
Bugfixes
- Fixed crashes during GI calculation and parsing.
- Fixed issue where refractive caustics were generated from physical material even when they were disabled in the material options.
- Fixed broken bump mapping when using Corona Mapping Randomizer.
- Caustics now work for Pattern with Use pattern material option enabled.
- Fixed crash/freeze with Phoenix when using IR and changing the timeline.
- Fixed high quality viewport shading for CoronaSelectMtl.
- Fixed issue where it was impossible to clear CoronaColorCorrect copied map slot through MaxScript.
- Fixed clouds with zero density causing slowdown.
Regression Bugfixes
- Fixed crash when resetting scene while having lister with some objects open.
- Fixed issue where the same instances were displayed multiple times in the lister after creating copies of instanced objects.
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chaos-corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2023-03-03.exe
General
- Lister - optimized responsiveness with a higher number of listed items
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where in rare cases the texture/material dialog was not updated
- Fixed issue where cursor was incorrectly set to default value when editing regions and/or using history.
- Fixed CBitmap with RWS on, merges with the wrong scale into scene with different system units.
- Fixed issue where the product being installed was named incorrectly in the UI.
- Fixed issue where material editor thumbnail was showing only part of a map, when bitmap with real world scale was passed through other maps. Also fixed viewport rendering in the same cases.
Regression Bugfixes
- Channel color mapping - fixed NaNs when input scale is changed to 0.
- Channel color mapping - fixed issues with the entering of numeric values.
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chaos-corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2023-03-14.exe
General
- Unified Nitrous implementation of drawing CoronaLight in the viewport across 3dsMax versions, which now results in more consistent viewport performance across all 3ds max versions.
- Lister - Added support for more similar class types in one tab.
- Lister - Added CoronaSun support.
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where error message about modified bitmap has been shown during IR even when the bitmap has not actually changed.
- Fixed incorrect preview of CoronaBumpConverter in material editor when bitmap with RWS is input into it.
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chaos-corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2023-04-05.exe
General
- Added support for 3ds Max 2024
- Added two fix-it actions for the error when out-of-core textures folder cannot be used. Those are - reset to default, and turn off out-of-core textures
- Added support for randomization of XYZ object space mapping into Corona MappingRandomizer.
- Improved Corona Decal “Visible in masks” tooltip
- Corona now shows information about loading Corona assets (bitmaps, proxies, etc.) in the 3ds Max loading progress bar. (Max 2023+)
- Fixed reporting of Windows version 10 on Windows 11
Listers
- Spinbox behavior unified with the spinboxes in 3ds Max (adaptive step size + ability to increase/decrease the scrolling speed with Ctrl/Alt).
- “Delete all” option creates a single undo event instead of one per each deleted instance.
- Added right-click menu that shows the same actions as the actions button.
- Fixed Ctrl+Z undo after deleting the listed item using the action menu.
- Checkboxes are now centred, combobox can be scrolled even when closed.
- Updated Lister Toolbar icon.
Bugfixes
- Fixed multiple issues with CoronaLight viewport drawing in several 3ds Max versions. (Poor performance, crashes, target line not being drawn with legacy driver)
- Fixed issue where message box informing about reset of tonemapping settings in render settings was not modal.
- Fixed issue where Clouds and Contrails offset values did not have all the animation options in 3ds Max compared to other parameters.
- Modified how color spread is computed in CoronaAO map to avoid different results when changing sample count. Sample count was also renamed (and remapped) to quality.
- Fixed infinite IR restart loop when editing curves in CoronaColorCorrect.
- Fixed issue where Corona Standalone was missing ScatterCore_Release.dll dependency after installation.
- Fixed issue where broken normals from Corona Proxy file were not always corrected.
- Fixed a potential issue where 3ds Max could freeze while caching material editor previews and when updating the loading progress bar
Chaos Scatter
- Fixed possible popping of instances when rendering animation in V-Ray while using collision avoidance. V-Ray 6 nightly 32011 or later is required.
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chaos-corona-10-3dsmax-daily-2023-05-09.exe
General
- Decal has now selectable channels (color, opacity, specular, emission, etc.) that influence what property of the base material it overrides.
- Decal can now select whether its bump and displacement is added on top of the base material, replaces the base material or does not influence the base material.
- Added support for multiple outputs maps. Currently used by Triplanar and Color Correct maps. (Only available in SME) -
- Added support for 3Ds Max Compound Node
- Added a button to Corona toolbar that leads to Corona for 3ds Max help page
Listers
- Added Corona Light Material suport
- Added Corona Proxy support
- Added “Toggle all” row that controls all listed objects
- Added option to open tone mapping settings from camera lister
- The color patch in a light row now displays color based on the current color mode (direct/temperature/grey for texture)
- Lister dialog closes on scene reset/open (also fixes possible crashes)
- General UI enhancements
Bugfixes
- Fixed import of refractive materials from Chaos Cosmos
- Fixed crash when picking proxy from scene while having point cloud mode on
- Fixed issue where renaming objects in lister did not propagate to 3ds Max
- Fixed issue where Shadow Element was rendering wrong after some DOF solver related changes
- Lister - Fixed issue where object with more instances had its controls disabled
Chaos Scatter
- Replaced legacy maxscript Scatter lister with improved lister 2.0 -
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New
- Added experimental DOF Highlights Solver, which speeds up the rendering of out-of-focus highlights. - on-default vs off | Corona Renderer
General
- Added support for multiple outputs to CoronaMappingRandomizer.
- Added checkbox that enables/disabled tinting of clouds by sun color. Clouds are also no longer influenced by sun intensity (only by sky intensity).
- Renamed texmaps from “Corona…” to “C…” in order to have more informative name in SME where only a portion of the name is displayed. MaxScript names are not affected.
- RoundedEdges texmap has now the legacy button always visible.
Listers
- Added support for CoronaDisplacementMod and materials with displacement section
- Added control for “Previz type” property in the “Toggle all” row for Scatter and Proxy listers
- Added action to delete a modifier, added actions to “Toggle all” row affecting all listed objects.
- Minor UI enhancements (improved displaying long texts in combo boxes, styling of the column visibility dialog, …).
- “Color mode” options in Corona Sun now match the Sun’s UI.
- Removed cell highlighting (it was inconsistent).
- Prevented assigning same names to multiple items of a same type.
- Optimized selection of multiple scene items.
- Camera name in tone mapping dialog now updates when reopening the dialog.
- Cumulative selection of all objects or instances now creates a single undo entry.
- Fixed crash when closing lister while “Column Visiblity” dialog is open.
- Fixed lister dialog blocking 3ds Max hotkeys, removed switching focus by tab, fixed wrong assigning of nodes to lister modifier items when copying multiple instances at once.
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where Decal was still affecting the base material (by changing its UVW coordinates) after all checkboxes in “Affect Base” rollout were disabled.
- Fixed crash with TyFlow when using Mapping operator with Map channel other than 1.
- Shadows from clouds no longer move with the camera.
- Fixed issue where maps with Output rollout with Output amount lower than 1 were incorrectly exported to standalone.
- Decal - Channels that are not affected by the decal now use the original (base) UVW mapping.
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chaos-corona-10-3dsmax-RC1.exe
General
- Improved “alpha mode” tooltips.
Listers
- Corona Light’s “On” parameter now has control in the “Toggle all” row
- Lights layout is rearranged to 1/ Suns, 2/ Lights, 3/ LightMtls
- Occlude others" buttons are blue when checked and disabled
- Added the assigned node name to displacement lister.
- Fixed crash when deleting objects from a tab that is not visible.
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where undoing anything related to 3ds Max lights during IR led to crash.
- Fixed NANs that could rarely appear when switching to Orthographic camera in IR.
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chaos-corona-10-3dsmax-RC2.exe
General
- The “Settings” map and related controls are only shown for legacy CoronaColorCorrect maps that actually use this feature.
- Updated links in Corona Converter window.
- Improved the speed of loading EXR/CXR files in Corona Image Editor by about 50%
- Improved warning shown when DOF Highlights Solver and AI denoiser are enabled together.
- Reverted renaming of the Corona maps back to “Corona…”.
Listers
- Fixed issue where lister did not remove nodes assigned to material/modifier after assignment undo or unassignment redo.
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where having the camera minimum clipping distance larger than the camera physical size led to rendering artifacts.
- Fixed issue where error message for missing render elements appears when resuming render from file even though no render elements are missing.
- Fixed issue where CIE was saving tone mapping settings also to light mix config.
- Fixed issue where CIE command line reset tone mapping parameters to default when no override value was provided.
- Fixed issue where histogram in curves tonemapping control was not refreshed during rendering.
- Fixed window focus issues related to warning box and licensing dialog
- Fixed slower rendering with buckets than without buckets.
- Fixed issue where SSS material was black when plugged into CoronaRaySwitchMtl even though it was used for all ray types.
- Fixed issue where Multimap decal randomization assigned the same color/material to scattered decals.
- Improved performance of CoronaAO map in some rare cases.
- Fixed crash that occurred when V-Ray material was connected to any Corona Multiple-Output map.
Scatter
- Fixed wrong sizing of some buttons in message dialogs on High-DPI displays.
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chaos-corona-10-3dsmax-RC3.exe
General
- Improved warning messages when using physical camera exposure control.
Listers
- Added undo support.
- Added tooltips.
- Category title bar now stands out more.
- Fixed issue where lister was showing right-click menu also after right click on a parameter editor.
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where CIE did not ask to save changes on exit after changing tone mapping settings.
- Fixed issue where CIE “Reset” button reset tone mapping to default instead of the settings stored in the loaded .CXR.
- Fixed viewport display of CoronaBitmap with Mirror tiling option.
- Fixed issue where some translucent Cosmos assets did not have translucent material when imported.
- Fixed issue where displacement could be sometimes applied on a geometry when exporting it into a proxy file.
- Fixed not showing Corona logo in several error message boxes.
Scatter
- Fixed crash when plugging normal bump or falloff map into the edge trimming map while running IR.
- Improved handling of bad meshes retrieved from 3ds Max. Fixed related crashes.
Final build, released as Corona 10 for 3ds Max:
General
- Updated Chaos Cosmos service binary shipped with the installer to the latest available version.
- Denoising error no longer appears when switching to Corona HQ Denoising during rendering, previously selected denoiser is used instead.
Listers
- Lister - fixed rare crash when deleting objects from tab that is not visible.
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where having different Roughness mode or IOR mode in decal material and base object material resulted in wrong roughness/IOR when using just some decal channels.
- Fixed issue where having displaced base object with at least two different decals would lead to having no displacement for a decal which does not replace displacement.
- Fixed issue where Corona Tonemapcontrol was not working on Dr Slave.
- Fixed issue where CoronaColorCorrect could crash when editing curves.
- Fixed issue where using “Make unique” on light instances would lead to crash.
- Happy rendering!