Gaussian Splats support
Explore a new dimension of realism with Gaussian splats support in Corona 14. Easily place buildings in context and render complex 3D environments with accurate reflections and refractions, thanks to Gaussian splats' novel scene reconstruction. Fill your scenes with detailed, memory-efficient splats of real-world environments or objects for smoother surfaces, richer volumetric detail, and a more natural sense of depth.
Night Sky
Bring the magic of night into your renders with the new Night Sky. Expanding the Corona Sky system, it adds realistic moonlight, stars, and even the Milky Way. Choose full realism by setting location, date, and time, or take an artistic approach by manually adjusting the celestial objects. Craft the exact atmosphere you want without relying on HDRIs. Fully animatable, Night Sky is perfect for time-lapse sequences and cinematic storytelling.
Create materials in seconds thanks to the new AI Material Generator available in Chaos Cosmos. Upload a photo of a real-world surface and turn it into a render-ready PBR material with all necessary maps in just a few clicks. It’s ideal for secondary materials that don’t need extensive art direction, allowing you to fill out environments and interior spaces quickly.
The AI Image Enhancer (part of Chaos Cloud Collaboration) elevates realism, texture, and detail in supporting elements—like foliage, people, or terrain—without altering your core design. With the advanced controls, you can fine-tune the appearance of people, and refine vegetation for precision and consistency. From street-level shots to aerial views, it automatically enhances areas for improvement—no re-rendering needed.
Corona 14 expands the power of AI by letting you send LightMix results directly to the AI Enhancer, not just the Beauty pass. Whether you’re exploring multiple lighting scenarios or fine-tuning the mood of your scene, you can now benefit from AI enhancement on the exact look you’ve chosen.
Turn low-resolution renders into high-quality, presentation-ready visuals, saving hours of rendering time while still getting crisp, photoreal results. Part of Chaos Cloud Collaboration, the AI Upscaler not only boosts resolution, it also sharpens textures and details, so your work looks even more polished.
Procedural Fabric Material
Design fabrics with true-to-life woven detail, having full control over the weave or threads, including opacity, bump, displacement, and more. With the new procedural Fabric Material, you can now create a wide range of detailed fabrics without relying on external bitmaps or complex node setups. Fabric Material also comes with presets to help you get started.
You can now suppress global illumination per material, giving you the flat, stylized lighting that cartoons and comics require. Plus, tint your shadows using a single color or a gradient ramp to create expressive, customized shading that enhances your artistic style.
Use avoidance groups to prevent overlap between scattered objects when working with multiple scatters. Define the priority of each group in the Scatter Lister to easily achieve the exact results you need.
Render volumetrics faster with optimized Volume Sampling, making complex scenes with fog, light rays, or smoky interiors much more efficient to render.
Save render time without sacrificing quality with Corona 14’s new option to render at double resolution and automatically downscale on save. By rendering at a higher resolution and then downsizing, you can often use higher noise levels or fewer passes, cutting render times significantly while still delivering a clean final image.
Work faster and smoother with the first phase of Corona’s UI rewrite to QT, starting with the Physical Material for better speed and responsiveness.
Corona 14 brings ongoing improvements to the Virtual Frame Buffer (VFB 2), making it cleaner, clearer, and easier to use. Based on direct user feedback, the interface has been refined to take up less space, simplify navigation, and provide clearer icons and labels. With these updates, users can confidently move from the original VFB to VFB 2 — unlocking all the powerful tools it provides, from auto exposure and white balance to LightMix improvements, the AI Enhancer, and Cloud Collaboration.
The Corona Image Editor (CIE) now matches the look, feel, and functionality of the updated VFB 2, ensuring a consistent experience across both tools. Images rendered in Corona 12 and later are once again fully usable in the CIE. Apply tone mapping, LightMix variations, and more — all outside of 3ds Max or Cinema 4D, without reopening your DCC.
Corona 14 continues to strengthen its integration with Chaos Vantage by introducing the ability to export multiple cameras at once. This first implementation provides a fast and straightforward way to bring your camera setups into Vantage, with more refinements planned for future releases. Combine Corona’s ease of use with the real-time power of Vantage for fast photoreal results.
As a common user request, basic Triplanar mapping controls are now available directly inside the Corona Bitmap, making material creation and adjustment quicker and easier. No need to set up a separate node — apply Triplanar mapping right where you need it.
Numerous fixes to the conversion done on loading a Cosmos material mean that they will render more similarly to V-Ray, and give you a neater and more controllable node structure for the materials.
AI is here to empower your creativity, but only when you decide to use it. For studios and professionals with strict policies around AI, you can now choose to disable AI-powered tools such as the Image Enhancer and Material Generator.
Customize your workflow and free up workspace with the new Dockable VFB in Corona for 3ds Max. Instead of working around a floating window that covers parts of the interface, you can now dock the VFB directly into your layout. This gives you all the controls of the VFB without cluttering your screen.
Flip your render horizontally in the VFB to get a fresh perspective and catch details you might have missed. This helps artists overcome “familiarity fatigue”, when spending hours on the same image makes it harder to spot issues.
Create a greater range of effects with Toon and Outline shaders thanks to the new Screen Space Mapping for bitmaps. Instead of textures following the 3D space of the scene, Screen Space Mapping makes them appear as if they’re “drawn onto the screen” or a piece of paper. This allows for effects such as hatching, sketching, and other stylized looks, giving artists more flexibility when blending photorealism with artistic expression.
