Corona Renderer alpha 5 released
Jun 13, 2013 by CGP Staff
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New features in the latest version of Ondra Karlík’s renderer plugin for Max include:
- Support for Forest Pack Pro and Multiscatter plugins
- Support for IES directional light emission
- Added hybrid glass mode (both refraction and transparent shadows)
- Option to disable reflections/refractions of a light
- Support for normal mapping – CoronaNormalTex
- CoronaTexmap Render element
- Support for multiple mapping channels for CoronaProxy
- Support for vertex color channel
- Support for asset tracking/repathing for CoronaProxy and CoronaLight IES files
- Added Top/Bottom Map
- Added new default gray value energy conservation algorithm
Plus bug fixes. According to the developer, the next features to be implemented are distributed rendering, irradiance caching, SSS+media and interactive rendering. Also of note, new great images have been added to Corona’s gallery.
Corona Renderer is currently free to use, though it is expected to become commercial in the future. Active beta testers will get access to the full version for free. More on Corona Renderer’s site.
