Everyone with an active FairSaaS or Box with Subscription license has access, and the download is in the usual location: Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life
A Release Candidate is close to being the final release, but we need your testing and feedback to catch any remaining bugs or other issues from real world testing!
Here’s just some of the major new items in 1.7:
Much faster rendering, in some scenes up to 8 times faster, thanks to the combination of many speedups (new DMC sampler, new adaptive direct light algorithm, faster adaptivity recomputation, and more)
Memory savings, in particular with render elements
The Corona MatLib, a collection of over 300 ready to use materials
Dedicated Hair shader, plus compatibility with 3ds Max native Hair and Fur, Ornatrix and Hair Farm
Dedicated Skin shader
New additions to the CoronaMtl: a new SSS mode, and Dispersion
A dedicated Corona Camera
UVW Randomizer
Bump Converter so that any map can be used as a bump map
The Corona UI displays properly on high DPI monitors
And of course many other improvements!
Reminder: Scenes saved with 1.7 will not open in 1.6, so you may want to keep separate versions of the scene while testing.
Hello Tom, thank you for the link.
I’m working on 1.6.1 … and I’m obviously motivated to move to this 1.7 … however I’m not sure about how to do … and most of all I’m working on projects for a client … Is this version stable enough to be able to transfer my work in progress from 1.6.1
other question, in the download link Dropbox, there are a lot of files … which are useful for the installation of the 1.7. another question, is it possible to have the 1.6.1 and 1.7 install at the same time … if yes how. (in case too much bug, as I have to make my pictures next week) .. thanks.
Problem this time with dailies/RCs is that you cannot go back easily. I would not do it if you have a deadline ahead.
You only need “corona-3dsmax-1.7-rc1.exe”
You can have different versions with different max versions only on one box but not for one specific Max installation (there are scripts/workarounds though).
Conclusion: It would be the best to finish your current job and pick the newest RC afterwards
It’s simple, find executable named “corona-3dsmax-1.7-rc1.exe” on dropbox folder, download it, check with your antivirus and launch installer. Simple as that.
Usually daily builds are stable enough for commercial work and RCs are almost as save to use as public releases. But i would not recomend to switch in the middle of important project, as 1.7 is not backward compatible with earlier versions - you will not be able to switch back without loosing your render settings.
RC stands for Release Candidate - at this point no new features are expected and only bug fixing and polishing is going on.
I have no no experience with multiple machines, but as far as i know you have to install same Corona version on all nodes for smooth DR experience.
What exactly is the problem? Are the material library files not installed to disk? Are you missing the MatLib option in menu? Do you get any error message when trying to launch MatLib or when dragging & dropping materials?
MAX 2016. I had Corona menu at the top of the bar, and everything worked like a charm.
Just before 10 min. I’ve installed RC 1.7 and Corona menu is missing, then I found it in Customise menu and put it back again, but then I got an empty box.
PS: I have noticed another strange thing. RC is installed but Corona showing the Daily from 15th.
About the Corona Cam, what is the best way to use it. I want to change the f-stop, ISO and shutter speed when rendering, and thought I could do it by changing the cam settings instead of using “simple exposure”, but it doesn’t seems to work…?
Does it need exposure control in the environment?
What should I thick in the render setup?
It looks like your installation got somehow corrupted. The new build correctly identifies itself as RC1. Please try:
Uninstalling Corona
Removing manually all Corona files from 3ds max root folder and plugins subfolder (all our files have “corona” in their filename). It should be these files:
a) Corona_maxHairFur.dll
b) Corona_Release.dll
c) CoronaLib_Release.dll
d) CoronaOpenExr2-v140-x64-Release.dll
e) wxmsw310u_vc_corona.dll
f) plugins/Corona.dll
g) plugins/CoronaUtils.dll
Removing the whole Corona folder in program files
Installing RC1 again
Anytime the Corona menu is screwed up, you can reinitialize it by deleting file %localappdata%\Autodesk\3dsMax<version> - 64bit\ENU\en-US\plugcfg\CoronaRendererMenus.ini
Well i see so many amazing features! I remember days when i was beta tester for first Corona builds - when Corona was in alpha 3,4,5,6,7 and next RC’s Every new build was so big surprise! And development was so fast - every bug i commited was solved in next build! I see that development is still very fast and a lot new features are here I’m not a owner of license and can’t check all this stuff, but every new Corona version is getting me closer to buy this soft…I’m using Alpha6 for my fun projects, and when i compare a list of features in Alpha6 and 1.7 it’s soooo huge milestep in development. One of the fastest developed software i ever seen.
Congratulations to Render Legion nad all beta testers and all people using daily builds which are reporting bugs - Your works matter.
