TY for the info! Very strange, I’d try and uninstall and reinstall of Corona as a starting point.
Any official info on this? Will the first Corona Version for R21 be the V5?
No official info on that yet, sorry. We shall have to see as we finalize compatibility whether it will be possible to have that in Corona 4 or just in Corona 5 and onward.
Nothing shows up on the tabs that have always opened till now 
Dang, I really thought R21 support for v4 was coming this week 
It might be, or it might not, we shall have to see. Could also be that v4 won’t be able to have R21 support. As soon as there is more news, we will let everyone know of course!
Hi Tom,
I’ve been using Corona since the alpha versions and now happily pay for Corona’s subscription. I use your render engine almost daily. I love it. As a C4D artist/hobbyist I was excited to upgrade to the more affordable R21 and I’m now paying for that as well. I’ve been refreshing these forums for the last few days in hopes of an update and frankly, you guys are being very dodgy and vague about this right now.
I’m a developer by trade so I totally get where you guys are coming from in not wanting to make any promises. I can only speak for myself but I think just a little more transparency would put my mind at ease. Right now I can only either use R21 w/out Corona or R20 with Corona, and at this point it feels like I’m just wasting my money since I can’t use both on a project.
Are there any additional insights your team can provide for us plebs? Is there some sort of incompatibility issue your team is facing? From the outside looking in it appears as if the team is focusing on new features for R20 and not putting a lot of priority on R21 (I’m sure this isn’t the case).
With the release of R21 being so affordable I expect a lot of enthusiasts like myself are going to be getting into C4D and Corona is a really easy to learn and accessible render engine that helped me a ton when I was first learning.
Thanks for all that you guys do!
edit: I missed one of your posts from earlier today regarding to porting version 4 vs. moving forward with 5, hoping for some good news!
Well said, I’m refreshing several times a day, waiting for R21 news, I’ve been banging out stuff using standard and physical, wanting to use R21.
Some straight up timescale would be appreciated
Poor if we have to wait until Q4 to be able to use Corona. Rather, I will start thinking about changing the render engine. It’s bad because I have an active license until 02 2020… But if I have to wait 3 months every year for the new version, I see no other option. I really like Corona, but I have no patience for such delays.
Note to self, hire robots to work at twice the speed and without errors 
Weird. I somehow totally get you guys wanting the R21 version but apart from certain 3ds Max plugins having 0-day render engine releases kind of ain’t the norm. Personally I think there is still a lot that can be done implementation wise (multi-instances?) and if R21 is late for a week or two I’m personally ok with that.
I guess its important to hear everyone’s opinion though, maybe the list of priorities inside the team should change if there is enough want.
It’s not really the wanting it now per se, I think some of us are just hoping to know when we might expect to see some news. Is it this week? Next week? Two months from now? I’d be more than happy with using the daily beta builds of 5 tbh. No one is asking the Corona Team to work faster, or without errors. Just looking forward to a date or timeline, even if it’s not soon. I will wait for a year if I have to, I personally just want to know if I need to adjust my process or cancel my R21 subscription for the time being (or stop using Corona for a little bit).
Again, I love this product and the work that this team does. You all are crushing it. I am constantly trying to get other 3D artists/designers to try it. I will continue to feverishly refresh the forums for updates in the meantime 
<3
@prplmark Right on, thank you for elaborating on that. So for me the takeaway here is that a lot of the “angst” (probably not the most fitting word, sorry about that) could have been avoided with some sort of a statement on how and when the R21 is expected to drop. So yeah, hopefully there is some clarification.
I’m totally with prplmark on this topic. Seems like very vauge information about the R21 compability. I mean, Octane and U-render realeased updated plugins almost the same day as the R21 release. Even Vray for C4D has released updated plugin with this compability. An update from the very same company who bought Corona, “to make sure development would keep up even better”. Kind of funny. I mean, you guys must have had all proper info and SDKs way before the R21 release - just to make sure all was fixed in time for the actual release? As your competitors?
Looking forward to the R21-release.
For me full support multi-instances it’s more important future than R21 support. BTW C4D R21 for me don’t have nothing special in compare to R20. I didnt extend my MSA first time
Multishader is awesome!! for me in the IR window the bumb mapping doesn’t work, only if I hit normal render, then it renders fine. Also the scene parsing is really slow in IR but very fast for normal render!
Great work!
Test Multi.rar (610 KB)
I thought similarly, but I changed my mind. Another thing was that I had Prime versions, so for MSA 250 € (?) I got a Studio Many small things make it definitely cooler to work than on the previous one.
Sky/HDRI in multipass not working… anyone tried…?
Thanks.
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Confirm. I have the same problem for sky pass, only black image.
Thanks for update.
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