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Changes in Corona 16 for Cinema 4D (Preview):
Added:
- Added option to set background image that is not affected by post processing
- Added option to relight Gaussian splats (they will receive illumination from the scene)
- SPZ format support for 3d Gaussian splats
- Improvements in Vantage export / live link:
- Corona Ambient Occlusion shader support
- Corona Slicer material support
- Improvements in Corona Mapping Randomizer shader
- Improvements in Corona Volume Grid
- Vantage live link should now work even accross machines, including live link from macOS to Windows running Vantage (we now use live link v2)
- Chaos AI assistant can now read information about camera and environment
- Added new mapping options for Glints
- Added new Light analysis pass to multi-pass
- Added parallax mapping for Corona physical material - can be enabled instead of displacement
- Note that there is currently a known issue when the parallax is combined with decals - we plan to fix this in the next preview build
- Added tint and other improvements to volume effect in Corona sky
- New volume effect model was already active in previous preview build, but without proper handling for legacy scenes, this version fixes this by loading old scenes with volume effect switched to legacy mode (used in Corona 15)
Fixed:
- Fixed opacity rendering in Vantage when bitmap uses Image Alpha as Mono channel output
- Fixed region tool discarding regions smaller than 20x20 pixels
- Fixes in handling of Corona Bitmap enhanced preview in Cinema 4D 2023 and older
- Fixed subshaders occasionally not working in enhanced viewport (Front back shader, normal shader, triplanar shader)
- Fixed issues in Corona UI on hi-DPI monitors when some newer versions of Redshift are installed
- Fixed freeze in VFB pick tool in scenes with standalone Sun placed in a hierarchy
- Fixed crash when VFB pick tool is used on object with normal map after render finishes
- Fixed enhanced viewport material previews in Cinema 4D 2025.3.3
- Fixed crash when loading scenes with Scatter that linked unexpected objects/tags
- Fixed back thumbnails of objets with Corona materials in asset browser
- Greatly improved performance of both initial export and later updates in Vantage live link
- Fixed issues with Chaos Cosmos on hi-DPI monitors on macOS
- ACES OT tonemapping operator in now disabled by default in scenes that are already set to use view transformation
- Fixed intensity not applying in Vantage to light using IES
- Fixed sphere light with IES pointing in the wrong direction in Vantage
- Fixed rare random crashes when initializing new render
- Fixed possible freeze when initializing view transform in Corona VFB
- Tweaks in how AI assistant uses scatter tool (it does not use concept of layers anymore)
- Render stats should now be saved also in 16-bit CXR (fixes resume render with 16-bit CXR)
- Fixed possible long freeze when starting IR after previous license acquisition failed due to networking error
- Improved error handling when some parts of sky model data is missing (i.e. corrupted or incomplete installation)