# Corona 16 released for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [November 4, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/corona-16-released-for-3ds-max-and-cinema-4d/192274 "2026-11-04T16:51:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tom\_grimes](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/tom_grimes/32/52842_2.png) [@tom\_grimes](https://forums.chaos.com/u/tom_grimes)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/corona-16-released-for-3ds-max-and-cinema-4d/192274/1 "2026-11-04T16:51:26Z")
[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/original/4X/2/d/1/2d1186df72bd3f239ec61afb87defe864ede52bb.jpeg "Corona 16 New Features | Inside Corona with Tom Grimes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2OjzYxGSiw) **Chaos Corona 16 released for 3ds Max & Cinema 4D** Corona 16 is out now! **Download** : [my.chaos.com/download/build?product=Corona](https://my.chaos.com/download/build?product=Corona) **What’s new in Corona 16 :** # **BOTH 3DS MAX & CINEMA 4D** ## **Major Features** **Gaussian Splats:** Gaussian splats can now be relit so they receive illumination from the scene. Also added a clipping mask for Gaussian splats and support for the highly compressed SPZ format. **Vantage:** Greatly improved support for a range of Corona materials in Vantage export and live link (see Vantage Live Link under Smaller Changes). **Parallax Displacement:** Added a parallax displacement mapping option to the Corona Physical material, which can take less memory to render than geometry displacement. **Parallax Interiors:** Using just a flat plane, give the appearance of furnished and lit 3D rooms behind windows with the new Parallax map (Parallax shader in Cinema 4D). Samples are available in Cosmos. **VFB Background:** Set a background image in the VFB that isn’t affected by post-processing, removing the need to use a Tone Map Control. **AI Assistant:** A new AI assistant (beta) offers help with product usage, suggestions for improving the rendering, mood matching based on an image, and scattering. **Notifications:** Initial implementation of Chaos notifications. See Notifications Management ([Notifications Management](https://documentation.chaos.com/space/KB/1001291828/Notifications+Management)) for how to manage notification settings. ## **Smaller Changes** **Rendering:** - Improved the CoronaSky atmospheric shader (Volume Effect) significantly, including many bug fixes. Scenes from earlier versions load with the Volume Effect in legacy mode to preserve their appearance. - Extended Render Selection (render mask) with options to render reflections, refractions, and shadows of included objects. - Added a Lighting Analysis render element (multipass element in Cinema 4D). - Enabled denoising of Alpha elements to improve compositing (CShading\_Alpha in 3ds Max, additional Alpha elements in Multi-Pass in Cinema 4D). **Material Previews:** - Sped up material preview rendering and updates. In 3ds Max, users with only one interface license can now render material previews with the interface license they already hold. **Corona Image Editor (CIE):** - Integrated Collaboration, AI Enhancer, and Veras into the Corona Image Editor. **Vantage Live Link:** - Added Normal map support. - Added metalness and refraction support. - Added support for the Legacy material. - Enabled support for the Corona Slicer material. - Implemented support for the Corona Ambient Occlusion map (shader in Cinema 4D). - Improved export of roughness to better match between Corona and Vantage. - Enhanced support for Corona Volume Grid. - Improved support for the Corona Mapping Randomizer. - Extended support to handle more MultiMap randomization modes. - Enabled export of multiple cameras in live link. - Added basic support for Vignette. ## **Bug Fixes** **General:** - Fixes for identified vulnerabilities. - Fixed random crashes when opening the Veras/Collaboration dialog. The dialog’s content no longer has to be reloaded when the dialog is closed and reopened. **Materials:** - Fixed a crash in the Physical material caused by NaNs in roughness/anisotropy textures. - Fixed splotches on thin translucent objects (like curtains) when seen in reflections. - Fixed environment fireflies caused by half-open Slicer material intervals; they’re now clamped to the bounding box. **Rendering:** - Fixed reduced performance when using the physical camera size and clipping. - Fixed OIDN denoising render elements less than the beauty pass. **VFB and Corona Image Editor (CIE):** - Fixed the command-line CIE (CoronaImageCmd) mixing different images together when processing multiple images. - Fixed the Regions tool discarding regions smaller than 20x20 pixels. - Saving all render elements now stops after the first error, to avoid flooding the user with errors. - Fixed incorrect scaling of widgets in the Corona Image Editor and Standalone when opened on a secondary monitor with a different scale than the primary one. **Vantage Live Link:** - Fixed a sphere light with IES enabled pointing in the opposite direction. - Fixed light intensity not applying to lights with IES enabled. - Fixed opacity rendering incorrectly when a bitmap used Image Alpha as Mono channel output. # **SCATTER** ## **Smaller Changes** - (3ds Max) Changed preset distribution patterns to automatically link a bitmap to the density map slot, enabling bitmap-driven scattering and editing for presets. - (3ds Max) Added an edge-trimming direction override, so the X, Y, or Z axis can be used instead of the surface normal for edge trimming. - (Cinema 4D) Enabled curve-based adjustment of scale and density in Chaos Scatter Area include/exclude. - (3ds Max) Introduced bulk enable/disable actions in Areas lists, also available in the right-click menu. - (3ds Max) Improved UI sync of the Scatter distribution map preview on preset or parameter changes and on renames of referenced maps. ## **Bug Fixes** - (Cinema 4D) Fixed crashes when opening some scenes with Chaos Scatter. - (Cinema 4D) Fixed a crash when loading scenes with Scatter that linked unexpected objects or tags. - (3ds Max) Fixed Corona not properly parsing scatters with modifiers or sub-object scatters. - (3ds Max) Fixed instances above specific values being translated incorrectly. - (Cinema 4D) Fixed Scatter not updating correctly when a model’s visibility changed. - (Cinema 4D) Fixed the cluster offset transform scaling incorrectly with cluster size. - (3ds Max) Cluster offset is now in scene units. - (Cinema 4D) Fixed Undo in Area include/exclude reverting multiple actions. - (3ds Max) Fixed spinners not capturing uncommitted edit-box values on selection change. Input is now registered when clicking away without pressing Enter. - (3ds Max) Fixed UI controls not being disabled when a deleted object was in the selection. - (3ds Max) Labels are now colored when the instance count is clamped in the viewport or during generation. - (3ds Max) Fixed the object list not filling the available width. # **CINEMA 4D** ## **Major Features** - Compatibility: Added support for Cinema 4D 2027. ## **Smaller Changes** **Enhanced Material Previews in Viewport:** - Implemented normal map support. - Added basic metalness and refraction support. - Enabled triplanar shader support. - Extended support to the Legacy material. - Included enhanced preview of the Mapping Randomizer shader. - Improved loading speed of scenes with many textures when the enhanced viewport is enabled. **Vantage Live Link:** - Greatly improved the performance of initial export and later updates in live link. - Updated live link to work across machines, including from macOS to Windows running Vantage. - Implemented detection of errors and of Vantage closing while live link is running. - Improved progress reporting when exporting a scene to Vantage via live link. **Chaos Cosmos:** - Introduced a tool to automatically download missing Cosmos assets in the scene. - Changed Chaos Cosmos assets to re-link automatically when a scene is opened on a machine with a different Cosmos download directory, if the assets already exist there. **Materials and Shaders:** - Improved the conversion of Cinema materials using non-physical properties of the Corona Physical material. - Introduced new mapping options for Glints. - Improved loading of bitmaps with incorrect file extensions in Corona Bitmap. **Rendering:** - Implemented simple linear motion blur for particles rendered via the Render Particles tag. - Introduced a warning when rendering with both ACES OT and an OCIO view transform. **CXR Files:** - Enabled saving CXR files with 16-bit layers, reducing file size (layers that require 32-bit, such as Cryptomatte, are kept as 32-bit). - Registered CXR files with Corona Image Editor on macOS so they can be opened from Finder. **General:** - Removed the legacy VFB 1. - Changed the minimum requirement to Windows 10. ## **Bug Fixes** **VFB and Color Management:** - Fixed a crash when switching scenes shortly after an image with an OCIO view transform was first shown in the Corona VFB. - Fixed a freeze when initializing the view transform in the Corona VFB. - Fixed a crash when using the VFB pick tool on an object with a normal map after a render finished. - Fixed the VFB pick tool freezing in scenes with a standalone Sun placed in a hierarchy. - Fixed bright pixels appearing black with some OCIO view transforms. - ACES OT tonemapping operator is now disabled by default in scenes already set to use a view transform. - Fixed the denoising checkbox in the Corona VFB not being correctly enabled or disabled when denoising settings changed between renders. - VFB size is now correctly adjusted when opened from Picture Viewer. **Enhanced Viewport Previews:** - Fixed a crash in enhanced viewport previews with shadows enabled. - Fixed a crash in enhanced material previews when using multiple viewports. - Fixed a crash when enabling enhanced material previews with the FrontBack shader used in bump. - Fixed enhanced viewport material previews not working correctly in Cinema 4D 2025.3.3. - Fixed Corona Bitmap enhanced preview not being handled correctly in Cinema 4D 2023 and older. - Fixed Corona Bitmap sometimes not working correctly in the enhanced viewport preview. - Fixed subshaders (Front back, Normal, and Triplanar shaders) occasionally not working in the enhanced viewport. - Fixed blurred textures in the viewport preview when using a layered shader. - Default texture size is now taken from Cinema 4D preferences when using enhanced viewport previews. **Materials and Shaders:** - Fixed a crash in the Corona Node Material Editor. - Fixed NaNs appearing in some scenes with bump. - Fixed roughness set to zero causing issues with the Light Override material. - Fixed the alpha source in Corona Bitmap being ignored. - Custom level is no longer reset in materials when a texture is linked. - Fixed thumbnails of objects with Corona materials appearing incorrectly in the Asset Browser. **Rendering:** - Fixed rare random crashes when initializing a new render. - Render is now saved only when rendering finishes (that is, isn’t canceled). - Camera resolution override now also works with the render queue. - Fixed some Corona preferences (auto save, VFB title) being ignored for Team Render. - New Corona Camera now uses the same default focal distance as Cinema 4D. - Improved error handling when parts of the sky model data are missing (for example, due to a corrupted or incomplete installation). **Interface:** - Fixed a freeze when showing the progress dialog for some operations in Cinema 4D S22+. - Fixed crashes in the Corona color picker. - Fixed Corona UI issues on HiDPI monitors when some newer versions of Redshift were installed. **Licensing and Installation:** - Fixed a long freeze when starting IR after a previous license acquisition failed due to a networking error. - Fixed the macOS installer unnecessarily running under Rosetta. **Corona Image Editor (CIE):** - Fixed a crash when closing CIE before denoising finished (or when performing another action, such as opening another CXR or pressing erase). - Fixed CXR file association breaking when installing Corona Image Editor. **Chaos Cosmos:** - Fixed Chaos Cosmos issues on hi-DPI monitors on macOS. **Vantage:** - Fixed Vantage export not working correctly for scenes containing an object with very large geometry. - **Known Limitations** - Notifications are currently not supported on Intel-based Macs. - Parallax displacement is automatically switched off and regular displacement is used instead with layered materials or decals, because parallax displacement behaves unpredictably with them. # **3DS MAX** ## **Major Features** **Vantage:** Chaos Scatter can now be exported to Vantage without exporting all the individual scattered instances, resulting in much faster export and live link. **Gaussian Splats:** Added support for rendering native 3ds Max Gaussian Splats. ## **Smaller Changes** **Color Management:** - Delivered support for ICC profiles in Color Management, introduced in 3ds Max 2027.2. - **Rendering:** - Optimized rendering speed of tyFlow volumes. - Rolled out an option to preserve Translucency in the Material Override settings. - Introduced an option to scale Bloom and Glare alpha intensity to match the Beauty Bloom and Glare intensity. **Gaussian Splats:** - Implemented an Exposure (EV) control for Gaussian splats, next to the existing Intensity control. - Updated Corona Gaussian Splats to show the crop box size after scaling. **Cameras:** - Changed new Corona cameras so that they no longer copy parameters in Tone mapping, Post-processing, Projection & VR, Distortion, Environment and Clipping, Overrides, DOF & Motion Blur, Tilt & Shift, Photographic, and Bokeh from an existing camera. **Vantage Live Link:** - Included support for CoronaDisplacementMod and scatter object displacement (material and modifier). - Added support for the Cellular map. - Added support for the 3ds Max Composite map. - Added export of the rendering color space. - Changed Vantage live link so it no longer stops after objects are merged into the scene. - Improved error messages. **Chaos Cosmos:** - Changed Cosmos Browser to start on demand and to notify about missing assets. - Updated Cosmos to prompt users to download incomplete assets again. **VFB and Interface:** - Extended the VFB settings dialog with Performance and System sections. - Made VFB icon animation toggleable in VFB settings and Corona System settings. - Introduced Ctrl++, Ctrl±, and Ctrl+0 shortcuts in the Cosmos, AI assistant, and cloud collaboration dialogs to zoom in, zoom out, and reset zoom. ## **Bug Fixes** **Stability:** - Fixed a crash that could occur when switching renderers when V-Ray was also installed. - Fixed a crash when rendering animated RailClone with geometry motion blur. - Fixed a rare crash in Corona materials. **Rendering:** - Adaptivity is now deterministic: it produces the same noise on every render, regardless of the number of cores used. - Fixed animated textures plugged directly into objects such as Corona Light, Corona Decal, Corona Volume Grid, or Corona Fractal not updating between frames when “Fast animation parsing” was enabled. - Fixed tyFlow sparse volumes showing seams at their borders. - Fixed tile rendering not working with Deadline. - Fixed the AI Enhancer render element rendering incorrectly with DR. - Fixed DrServer scaling and size flickering. - Fixed chromatic aberration producing artifacts on CXRs rendered in a non-sRGB color space. **Interactive Rendering:** - Fixed interactive updates not happening when a CoronaDistance source node moved. - Fixed Auto Adjustment switching to defaults after material editor updates while IR was running. **Material Editor:** - Fixed material preview not working correctly after a scene reset. - “License not available” previews are no longer stored in the material preview cache in the Slate Material Editor. - Fixed the color management color swatch setting not being applied to the ColorTex result preview. **Chaos Cosmos:** - Loading of HDRIs from Cosmos now respects the Scene Environment source. - Fixed incorrect bitmap color space and triplanar scale in Cosmos materials. - Fixed the integrated web browser (Cosmos, Veras, and others) being too small on high-DPI monitors. **VFB and Cameras:** - Fixed the Corona Camera resolution override exceeding the 32768 limit when changing the width with a locked aspect ratio. - Fixed a sub-pixel render region staying drawn in the VFB. - The shutter curve editor no longer shows the “Histogram controls are available in VFB” label. **Corona Image Editor (CIE):** - Fixed Image Editor file associations (CXR, CEXR) not working. - **General:** - Fixed the Bitmap load dialog not opening in 3ds Max QuietMode. - **Vantage Live Link:** - Fixed the 3ds Max physical camera not exporting to Vantage. - Fixed triplanar mapping not working correctly in Vantage live link. - Fixed texture gamma and color space not being exported correctly. - Fixed refractive roughness not matching between Corona and Vantage. - Fixed Corona Camera Tilt and Shift not being exported correctly. - Fixed the 3ds Max Color Correction map rendering incorrectly. - Fixed a color-corrected sky used as the environment map rendering incorrectly. - Fixed the Vignette value not being set correctly. It’s now taken from Corona’s tone mapping settings. - Fixed the live link session staying open after switching to a different renderer while it was running. - Fixed keyboard input not working properly when switching between spinboxes while Vantage live link was on. ---
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