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Corona is really starting to look like it’s going to be a major player. In a market saturated with unbiased renderers (IRay, Maxwell, Fry, Octance, Thea, Indigo, LUX, etc.), it has somehow managed to push through. I will have to give it a try some time soon.
It’s probably because it’s well integrated, no exports, no external ‘studio’ app, a versatile material with straightforward logic, support for built in maps – and very fast and good looking results. So impressive for a one-man-show!
All this happened while iray has gone through 2 or 3 releases, with relatively slow results on the GPU, and with lots of limitations.
I wish I could use Corona more in my daily work, can’t do right now but certainly will do once I get to convert some of our assets and materials.
I really like corona’s material previews and I wish vray would have something like this.
Corona was the first renderer in my life where i could create a scene setup, desired shader look and a good render preview within 5 minutes. I have bought in my life almost all render plugins, i wrote Ondra once, i don’t have any doubt i will gladly give money for Corona once it is finished. Therefore, without making advertising, my best recommendations to try and engage this excellent renderer!
I wish (for Autodesk) Iray would have been engineered from the start as Corona, they would be now the market-leader.
Since the sun is never shining 24h a day, there is always 12h darkness… by some people, the whole enthusiasm about corona will probably vanish once they get the bill to pay. When you look at the comments of some users in the forum, you can already guess how old they are and how convinced they are that this status “free” will remain forever 🙂
I mean, ok, the “garage-look” of the homepage and development smell (the complete development plays in the forum, very … intimate situation) draws such strange, ambivalent, mixed user group. I am one of them. It will be cleaned once the price list is hanged out, the developer get to deal with responsibilities and the professional support must be delivered.
This is neither bad nor good – it is how we have watched different development stages of almost all software in the last 20-30 years. An simple evolution. Corona (alpha 5 or so i think) has a very, very good evolution so far!
@Rotem – I agree with you with the point you are making about it being really integrated into 3dsmax.
I’m currently the only developer for the Luxrender 3dsmax Plugin, and right now the Luxrender exports to files which you then load into Luxrender, the next step for me now is to integrate it directly just like mentalrayiraycorona etc.
And I must say the renders in the article here really impressed me, very good work! And it puts corona in a very good light 🙂