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This daily build will be released as Hotfix for Corona 13, if no issues are found.
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Major User-Facing improvement
- Added support for beta version of AI material generator. The generator can be found in Cosmos.
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where materials with textures plugged into roughness or IOR slots could be exported incorrectly into Vantage.
- Fixed issue where firefly filter could create NaNs.
- Fixed issue where outline was rendered incorrectly when using Camera with non-zero physical size.
- Fixed slow uninstall stage of installer.
Preview build with many awaited features and fixes!
Test them as much as you can and share/report your findings in [Chaos Corona 14 - Previews Discussion.](https://forum.corona-renderer.com/ Chaos Corona 14 for 3ds Max - Previews (Daily Builds) Discussion )
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Major User-Facing Improvements
- Added possibility to render Gaussian splats using Corona Gaussian splats object.
- CoronaPhysicalMtl rewritten to Qt.
- CIE rewritten to Qt.
- Added the option to dock VFB window. Dockable option can be found in zoom menu of VFB.
- Added new Fabric material - users can control yarns, plies, fibers.
User-Facing Improvements
- VFB - Removed confirmation dialog when enabling/disabling all lightmix layers.
- Removed decimals from the (new) White Balance operator.
- Improved viewport IR text during Vantage Live link.
- Added new togglable “Collaboration” button to VFB ribbon, which shows/hides Collaboration on the left side, instead of a tab in the sidebar.
- Added option to hide/disable AI features using CHAOS_DISABLE_GEN_AI environment variable. Setting it to “1” hides:
- AI Material Generator from Cosmos
- CMasking_AiEnhancer render element
- Enhance button in VFB
- Enhance button for VFB history items
- Added new “Flip” toggle to the VFB’s Zoom menu, which flips currently shown image horizontally - shortcut ctrl + /.
- Extended VFB title placeholder parameters with %cxr - this shows the path to the currently viewed cxr (VFB system settings).
- Added option for CShading_Alpha render element to include bloom & glare effect.
- Added checkbox for Corona proxy to play animation with FPS stored in the proxy file (previous behavior - default) or with the current scene FPS (similar to V-Ray proxy).
- Changed default adaptivity interval to 1. Noise level can now be estimated after 2nd pass.
- Significantly improved parsing speed, especially on CPUs with large number of threads. Geometry stage now stays consistent between renders.
- Added support for randomization by pattern to Multimap and MappingRandomizer.
- Improved the look of VFB2 tabs.
- Rewritten the UI of ColorText to Qt.
- Maps are reused and no longer duplicated when importing material from Cosmos.
- Significantly improved volume rendering when volume is lit by polygonal light sources (no environment, sun).
- Added automatic color space selection using OCIO rules when batch loading bitmaps from Corona MultiMap.
- Added possibility to drag and drop multiple selected Cosmos materials into SME. The drop position of all imports even without drag and drop has slight shift applied to it.
- Added upload conditions to the AI Enhancer button tooltip.
- When LightMix element is displayed in VFB, it is uploaded to AI Enhancer instead of Beauty.
- Added checkbox with simple triplanar mapping into CoronaBitmap.
- Improved the import of materials from Cosmos: - Corrected the ordering of NormalTexture/MappingRandomizer/Bitmap
- Fixed 0 scaling used in triplanar texture in AI material
- Removed empty CoronaMix map plugged into SSS amount
- Triplanar, MappingRandomizer map is reused if the same map is plugged into multiple nodes
- Made UI more compact:
- top toolbar’s height decreased from 56px to 40px (VFB1 had 28px)
- tools sidebar’s width decreased from 342px to 300px (VFB1 had 240px)
Bugfixes
- Fixed AI Enhancer image uploading cropped image when AI upscaling is on - now the whole image is uploaded in the original resolution.
- Fixed artifacts created by slicer caps.
- Fixed issue where IR would not update when an object with Corona Pattern modifier used option to use pattern material.
- Fixed CoronaPatternMod incorrectly setting command mode to select (e.g. when cloning using Shift + Move).
- Fixed issue where 3ds would get minimized after closing Corona Color Picker, Memory report dialog etc.
- Fixed issue where Corona Pattern Mod could crash when using RaySwitch material or Light material on it.
- Fixed “Rest” parameter in LightMix being reset when restarting rendering.
- Fixed issue with wrong gamma mapping when importing normal map from Cosmos from Corona material library collection.
- Fixed issue where triplanar mapping in Corona Scanned Material could rarely lead to NAN.
- Fixed outline material when used with camera clipping.
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Major User-Facing Improvements
- Added night sky (moon and stars).
User-Facing Improvements
- Rewritten to Qt: - CoronaLayeredMtl
- CoronaVolumeMtl
- CoronaHairMtl
- CoronaSlicerMtl
- Added the color correction options and tonemapping exclusion to Gaussian splats.
- Added better flip frame options and crop box to Corona Gaussian splats.
- FabricMtl - added option for normal/bump maps on top of the fabric mtl.
- FabricMtl - Updated tooltip for distortion frequency and fibers frequency, to be less confusing.
- Added non-physical control of reflection and refraction tint into Physical material.
This helps to better convert V-Ray materials and import from Cosmos.
These controls are hidden by default, located in material’s advanced settings. - ToonMtl - added shadow control & GI suppression.
- Added option to invert the slicing to the Corona Slicer material.
- Further improved volume sampling.
- Added support for MultiTexture Map in Corona for Vantage.
- Corona now automatically fixes NaNs/INFs found in geometry and reports them to users. This also avoids NaN related crashes.
- VFB: - Moved Sidebar visibility button + Zoom dropdown to the right of the main toolbar.
- Added option to VFB store images in half-resolution.
- Updated icons, moved main tool buttons to left, added foldable icon labels.
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where accepting some confirmation dialogs could minimize 3ds Max.
- Fixed freeze when changing post/lightmix settings.
- Fixed inconsistent color space when doing conversion Bitmap ↔ CoronaBitmap where CoronaBitmap. Same color space as original bitmap is used now.
- Fixed crash when converting Bitmap that is plugged into MultiMap.
- Fixed issue where Gaussian splats could be rendered with unexpected hue shift.
- Fixed issue where Corona Bitmaps No tiling mode did not work with Triplanar.
- Added units to triplanar scale in CoronaBitmap.
- Warning about legacy atmospheric elements now doesn’t appear when editing materials.
- Fixed disabled instance randomization mode for MappingRandomizers imported from Cosmos.
- Fixed NVIDIA denoiser not working during production rendering.
- Fixed crash when moving the leftmost key in ramp using spinbox.
- Fixed a crash in Save all in Corona Image Editor.
- Fixed issue where some maps plugged into Fabric material did not have texture mapping coordinates remapped to [0,1] interval, which could lead to artifacts.
- Fixed renderer change Yes/No dialog message box briefly minimizing the application.
- Fixes the following issues with Gaussian splat object: - Crop box is wrong after loading a scene
- Copying gaussian splats objects creates a broken copy
- Curves can’t be turned off/on without opening the curves editor
- Fixed crash with VFB docking into 3dsMax.
- Fixed wrong SSS conversion from V-Ray material.
- Fixed unwanted minimization of parent application (CIE or 3dsMax) when open file dialog is confirmed/closed.
- Fixed wrong gamma when saving the image from CIE.
First Release Candidate of Corona 14.
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User-Facing Improvements
- VFB2 - Chaos Collaboration is now open in a separate dialog.
- VFB2 - Renamed Collab → Collaboration, Enhance → AI Enhancer, made rounded edges on button highlights, increased button area size.
- Moved moon glow parameter from sky map to moon.
- Moon intensity multiplier split into two (visual and illumination) multipliers.
- Daylight node for the moon can be selected in a viewport.
- All scene cameras are now exported into Vantage.
- Added new Defaults (reset) menu in Render Settings > System tab, moved “save defaults” into system tab.
- Rewritten the UI of Corona Bitmap to Qt.
- Scatter: - Ability to compute collisions between individual scatters: - Each scatter can be assigned to one collision avoidance group in the Scatter Lister.
- Scatters in the same group don’t have collisions among themselves.
- Collision evaluation is done based on priority - his priority can be also assigned in the Scatter Lister.
- Object and spline lists allow adjustment of related properties in bulk when multiple items are selected.
- Added addModelNode() command which can be used within scripts to add a model.
- Added support for mesh objects as include/exclude modifiers.
Bugfixes
- Fixed issue where outline disappears behind transparent object without outlines.
- Moon brightness made independent of its size.
- Sun and Moon are now always rendered behind clouds, regardless of cloud shadowing state.
- Fixed crash when color mapping callback is called before VFB is created - or after it is destroyed.
- Corona Image Editor: - Fix of slow startup.
- Added missing UI update of progress bar during denoising.
- Fixed not denoising an image due to wrong spp (samples per pixel) buffer.
- Fixed proper cancelling of denoising when any other denoising mode is selected.
- Store persistent settings of VFB for CIE in %localappdata%\CoronaRenderer\ImageEditor, instead of with binary.
- Added UVMapper rotation parsing to VrMatConverter. Now W rotation is considered when importing from cosmos.
- Fixed issue where stars would be seemingly bigger in reflection/refraction.
- Normal map Red-Green flip is now imported correctly from Cosmos.
- Added missing context (right-click) menu for the Daylight node in CoronaMoon.
- Fixed inconsistency (not greying out) between bloom&glare and sharpen&blur when using camera postprocessing overrides.
- Fixed exposure being incorrect when loading CXR in CIE (in history or opening).
- Fixed issue where the Gaussians bounding box would get bigger than the crop box with increasing zoom level in the viewport.
- Scatter: - Fixed parent window focus loss when picking colors for instance models with the Corona Color Picker.
- Fixed issues with incorrect surface scattering on renderable and non-renderable shapes/splines.
Regression bugfixes
- Fix of not stopping IR when closing dockable wrapper.
- Fixing error estimate being zero in IR for first several passes when “IR subsampling” is used.
- Spinboxes with world units now update on display units change.
Corona 14 Release Candidate 2.
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User-Facing Improvements
- Switched default preview mode of gaussian splats to point cloud.
- Crop box of Gaussian splats is being shown and used instead of full bounding box for rotation, zoom extents etc.
- Added “Fit crop box” button to Gaussian splat object, which automatically culls low opacity splats (performed by default).
- Added (non-linear) sRGB color space option to Gaussian splats.
Bugfixes
- Made VFB docking/undocking faster.
- Fixed artifacts in Gaussian splats visible on geometry with shadow catcher material.
- Removed duplicate stars, fixed moon disk size and gamma, removed fireflies from moon illumination, optimized star rendering and moon preprocessing.
- Corona Image Editor: all settings now reset when Erase button is click.
- Corona Image Editor - Fix of not visible changes after denoising mode is changed.
- Fixed incorrect visibility of the sun/moon through clouds.
- Fixed toolbar labels visibility when resizing docked VFB.
- Fixed crash when sampling Anima materials.
- Fix for Cosmos imports that use grayscale bitmaps and inverse in the output of a bitmap.