Corona for Cinema 4D Help Center / Documentation Updates

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This thread serves as a support team changelog, where we will be periodically listing our Help Center and Documentation Portal updates (and more).

New in Corona 10 daily builds:

Other:

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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The displacement guide now also includes C4D content:
How to use displacement?

Added a new article:
Creating basic materials

(forgotten in the previous entry) This guide also applies to C4D (currently 3ds Max screenshots only):
How to correctly combine Corona Mapping Randomizer, Triplanar, and Normal maps?

(common for Max and C4D) New error message - Corona Decal “Affect Base” only works with Corona Physical Mtl:
Affecting only a part of a base material with a Decal material is only supported if both materials are Corona Physical Materials.

Updated LightMix articles (it is now possible to set up LightMix by layers):
Documentation Portal
and
Help Center

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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New error message: Corona Decal “affect base” option only works when using the Corona Physical Material:

Updated tone mapping articles (mostly with info that ACES OT is in the stack by default):

Updated articles on the Corona Proxy:

Added a new article:

Updated Interactive Rendering articles to include the “IR Subsampling” option:

Added an article listing all DOF Highlights Solver error messages:

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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Updated the “How to use Depth of Field” guide with the new DOF Highlights Solver info:

Included the new DOF Highlights Solver in Render Settings > Performance Settings documentation:

Updated/simplified the manual installation guide:

Updated information on Corona Decal “Affect Base” options:

Added updates related to Corona 10 inside-medium rendering and physical size to the Corona Camera articles:

Added minor updates to the Corona Scanned Mtl article:

Added minor updates to the Corona Pattern article

Moved commonly used abbreviations from the Help Center to the Documentation Portal:

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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Created a simple documentation for the Corona 10 Benchmark:

Updated the Corona Lister article:

Updated the VFB article:

Updated the IR article:

Moved render stamp variables article from the Help Center:

Created a basic documentation for the tonemapping operators:

Updated multiple articles with the new Corona 10 alpha options for volumes:

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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Corona Benchmark - added clarification on the ray/s unit on multiple pages - Using Corona Benchmark

Various maintenance updates such as new renders/screenshots:

Help Center:
V11 Bump/Normal Filtering (C4D content coming soon!) - https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/19161682524305
Orthographic camera and screen size displacement - https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/18026265850385
Commandline rendering - https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/14696502141073
Chaos Scatter (multiple pages) - https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4953600578065
Light Types - https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4528304737553
Getting rid of excessive noise - https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4528247036305
How many passes is enough? - https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4528236666257
Adaptivity - https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4528323634705
Max Sample Intensity - https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4528507399441

Documentation:
The Shaders Page - Corona for Cinema 4D
Corona Preferences - Corona for Cinema 4D
Corona Performance Settings - Corona for Cinema 4D
Corona Bitmap Shader - Corona for Cinema 4D
Chaos Scatter - Corona for Cinema 4D
Corona Mapping Randomizer Shader - Corona for Cinema 4D
Corona Lister - Corona for Cinema 4D

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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Mostly Corona 11 updates:

Updated Chaos Scatter articles with the new features and UI screenshots:

Created a new article for the Corona Tile Map:

Updated the Multimap article with information on the new Tile ID mode:

Updated the Mapping Randomizer article with information on the new Tile ID mode:

Created a new article on the new bump/normal filtering in Corona 11:

Updated the Corona Physical Mtl article with the new filtering options:

Updated the Corona Skin Mtl article with the new filtering options:

Updated multiple articles with information on the new Intel denoiser:

Updated the Corona Image Editor articles with a new CIE batch processing script:

Added short notes about Pyro

Added information about the Displacement Tag to the Corona Lister article:

New error message article: OIDN: No device with CUDA support available.

New error message: Tile Map’s custom pattern could not be parsed. Problem is in the following row.

…plus various other updates and changes to keep all articles up to date. We are also working on a few remaining articles which will be shared here soon.

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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Migrated information from https://wiki.corona-renderer.com/ to the Chaos Documentation Portal. When trying to access the wiki (both https://wiki.corona-renderer.com/ and Chaos Docs), you are now redirected to Corona Docs).

Moved the installation guide from the Help Center to the Documentation Portal:

Updated denoising articles:

Updated the system requirements article:

Created an article for the Corona Edge Shader:

Updated the Lister article:

Added Tile ID to the Mapping Randomizer article:

Added Tile ID to the Multi Shader article:

Updated the SSS in Corona article:

Updated the Scene Converter article:

New error messages:

…plus various other updates and changes to keep all articles up to date.

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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Corona 12 for Cinema 4D Chaos Documentation Portal and Chaos Help Center updates:

How to Export and Render Scenes in Vantage with Corona 12 for C4D:

Corona and Vantage compatibility guide:

Corona 12 Scatter improvements:

New VFB:

Added information about the new multiple LightMixes feature:

“Ignore bump” option added to Corona Curvature Map:

New error message: “PRG Clear Sky” model was selected, however an old version of the required data is installed.":

Specifying and locking IR resolution:

Optimized cloud generation and added density scaling:

LUTs are now working in linear color space:

Zoom and navigate in the curve editor:

Lister - added option to reorder tabs by mouse dragging:

Gamma/Lift/Gain tone mapping operator:

Rotation parameter in Corona Bitmap:

Delaying bloom and glare computation after the rendering:

Tile Shader aspect ratio lock:

Corona Pattern updates:

Curved Decals:

Updated the Scene Converter article:

New Cryptomatte by Material mode:

Corona Material Library now available in Cosmos:

Created Corona Color Picker article:

…plus various other updates and changes to keep all articles up to date.

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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Corona 12 for Cinema 4D Chaos Documentation Portal and Chaos Help Center updates:

Updated Corona+Vantage article:

Updated VFB 2 article:

Updated installation/uninstallation guides:

Added article on saving CXR files:

Added „How to use Collaboration features from Chaos Cloud” guide:

Updated tone mapping operators guides:

Created automatic white balance guide:

Added article explaining how to use different texture types:

Created documentation page for the Corona Node Material Editor:

Updated Corona Curvature Map documentation:

…plus various other updates and changes to keep all articles up to date.

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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Corona 12 for Cinema 4D Chaos Documentation Portal and Chaos Help Center updates:

Added information about including bloom and glare in alpha

Small updates to the Corona Decal article (e.g. to make bending more visible)

Added information that Chaos Scans are now in Cosmos

New error message: this scene uses legacy map filtering

Added information about the ability to copy and reset colors in LightMix

New error message: you are using non-standard upscale factor for IR

Added Vantage live link button to Corona Toolbar

Added descriptions for VFB Auto Adjustments

Documented the „preserve unsupported” option for material overrides

Updated the „my rendering is very dark or black” article with more information about issues caused by placing camera inside a volume

Added information about Scatter distribution maps

Added information about the AI upscaling

Added article „Rendering has low quality! (looks blurry, pixelated)”

Added information about automatic white balance

Updated various articles with the new Corona installation path (C:\Program Files\Chaos\Corona)

…plus various other updates and changes to keep all articles up to date.

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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Corona 13 for Cinema 4D Chaos Documentation Portal and Chaos Help Center updates:

How to create virtual tours with automatic hotspots in Cinema 4D

Added information on the Fireflies Filter

How to Render Corona for Cinema 4D Animations in Vantage

How to use AI Enhancer in Corona for Cinema 4D

Corona Toon Material

Corona Outline Material

Global Object Outline

New Scatter Features

…plus various other updates and changes to keep all articles up to date.

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.

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Corona 14 for Cinema 4D Chaos Documentation Portal and Chaos Help Center updates:

How to use Gaussian Splats

Scatter - clustering and distribution by color map

Corona Menu - Vantage items

Triplanar mapping inside Corona Bitmap

Toon Material - shadow control and GI suppression

Added various Toon Material examples

Added details about the AI Enhancer behavior depending on render resolution

How to disable all AI features

Added information on the Fireflies Filter

Error message: using a non-outline material as the global outline

How to import a VRScene file from Enscape to Corona

Updated the System Requirements page

…plus various other updates and changes to keep all articles up to date.

Note: if you spot any issues, something isn’t working, or you would like to share any kind of feedback with us - please contact us here.