Corona Renderer for 3ds Max (2016-2025)

Corona Renderer for 3ds Max Overview

Easily create stunning bathrooms, kitchens, walls, and floors with procedural tiles thanks to the Corona Tile Map.
You can now use bitmaps or procedural maps to define the colors of the tiles and repeat, randomize, or even tessellate an image onto the tiles, depending on your needs. The Corona Mapping Randomizer and MultiMap now come with “by tile id” modes, so that you can randomize results by each tile if desired.

Corona Renderer for 3ds Max Features

Corona Pattern – Place geometry on the surface as light as the texture.

Procedural Clouds – Add detail to your Corona Sky with animated procedural clouds and aircraft trails. You may never need HDRI again.

Edge Trimming in Chaos Scatter is a highly requested feature implemented in this Scatter update.

Chaos Scans – Maximize the realism of your materials, they have been carefully scanned so that each material reacts differently to lighting. Leather, fabrics and even foil can now be added to your scene to ensure they match the real world in both appearance and scale. Included with your Premium Subscription.

Chaos Player – An easy way to turn your image sequences into video format. Now you don’t have to use a complex video editor that is overkill for your daily needs. Included in Premium subscription.

Chaos Phoenix – Corona has supported Phoenix for several years, but only a few users have added it to their toolbox due to the significant additional cost. Now included with your Premium subscription is the perfect tool for creating fire, smoke, water and more.

Lots of smaller improvements – Depth of field from the fisheye camera, new material override settings to preserve slicers, external texture rendering to save memory during rendering, and more.

Installation

1. Remove the medicine from the previous version of Corona.
2. Run the installer and install the program. In my case, this is the first point (version update) 
3a. If you have a check mark on “Material Library”, then during installation, an additional ~5.40gb will be downloaded. If there is a file of the same name next to the installer, the library will be installed from a local source, and not downloaded from the Internet. The file is present in the distribution. 
3b. Nvidia Denoiser is no longer supplied as a separate file, but is downloaded and installed along with the driver for the video card. 
5. Copy LegionLib_Release.dll with file replacement to C:\Program Files\Corona\Corona Renderer for 3ds Max\20** And, if necessary, to the root Corona Standalone -> C:\Program Files\Corona\Corona Renderer for 3ds Max\Standalone And, if necessary, to the root Image Editor -> C:\Program Files\Corona\Corona Renderer for 3ds Max\Image Editor 
6. Copy ScatterCore.ForScatter_Release.dll with file replacement for versions 2016-2021 to C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\Scatter\3ds Max 20** for versions 2022+ to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\ChaosScatter3dsMax202* 
7. If you need to remove the medicine and switch to the official license, then return the replaced files from the backup (or reinstall the plugin). Thanks to MSI for the release provided.

File Information

Release Year/Date : 2024
Version : 12.1
Developer : Chaos Group
Developer Website : corona-renderer.com
Bit depth : 64bit
Interface language : English
Tablet : Present (file replacement)

System Requirements

Autodesk 3ds Max x64 version 2016-2025
64-bit Microsoft Windows 10 or newer
Corona requires a CPU that supports the SSE 4.1 instruction set.