Render Legion has released Corona 1.7 for 3DS Max, promising speed improvements of over 100% thanks to the integration of V-Ray’s DMC sampler, and up to 600% speed boosts for scenes with many lights due to a new adaptive direct light sampling option. Other optimisations bring an overall speed improvement of up to 5%, adaptivity recomputation is faster by a factor of 2 to 3 and render elements require 25% to 75% less memory. In addition to these optimisations, new features include:
- A new material library and browser containing over 300 common materials.
- Support for most major hair and fur rendering tools.
- Dedicated shaders for Skin and Hair.
- Support for subsurface scattering in the standard Corona material.
- Dispersion to give extra realism to gemstones, glass and liquids.
- A dedicated Corona Camera object.
You can read more about the release on the Corona blog.
Cool update, now I´m waiting to have all this in standalone and an update for the Blender addon 🙂
Cheers!
Reading in the Corona forum seems that v1.7 is born as a “problematic” release so the real polished and improved release will be the v2 (no more 1.8, 1.9 etc…only integer numbers after that).
Do you have a link to those statements? I’m curious to see in which way is problematic, thanks
you can read the forum threads regarding v1.7 in “news” and “general discussion” subsections (sorry, not a specific link).
Then you can observe the continuous split of an estimated release date, the new light solver isn’t mature enough to be considered the universal solution and, last but not last, the trello road map reported over the time a massive transition of features that v1.7 had to have but are going to the future versions (2 and 3).
All these points convinced me to mature this point of view…v2 should be the rock solid release.