Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D moves into free beta
Beta 1 release adds support for interactive rendering, the Corona Image Editor, and material layering.
Monday, February 5th, 2018
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Render Legion scraps Corona Renderer for SketchUp
Chaos Group 'did a far better job' with V-Ray for SketchUp, admits firm of its now-defunct alpha builds.
Monday, February 5th, 2018
Black Friday and winter 2017 deals for CG artists
Updated with discounts valid until the New Year, including Affinity Photo and Marmoset Toolbag.
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 1.7 for 3ds Max
Now shipping: renderer gets new dedicated camera, skin and hair shaders, 300 readymade materials.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
Chaos Group buys Corona developer Render Legion
Both V-Ray and Corona keep their original dev teams, but tech will be shared between the two renderers.
Sunday, August 27th, 2017
Nvidia releases Mental Ray for 3ds Max
New plugin version of Mental Ray is the first for 3ds Max 2018. Use it for free, if not for network renders.
Thursday, May 11th, 2017
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 1.6 for 3ds Max
Update to renderer adds new standalone image editor for EXRs, improves sampling, relighting and distributed rendering.
Monday, April 24th, 2017
Render Legion releases first Mac build of Corona for C4D
Free Alpha 6 build of the Cinema 4D renderer also adds the features from the latest 3ds Max release.
Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 1.5 for 3ds Max
New Interactive LightMix system lets users relight scenes without re-rendering; VFB now supports post effects and LUTs.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
Render Legion releases Corona 1.4 for 3ds Max
Big update to renderer adds new denoising function, texture baking, support for multiple interactive render regions.
Monday, May 16th, 2016
3DStudio.nl ships Universal Material Converter for Max
Neat script converts all the materials in a 3ds Max scene into their V-Ray, mental ray, Iray, Corona equivalents.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Render Legion previews Corona 1.4 for 3ds Max
Next version of renderer to add adaptive image sampling, new denoising system. Cinema 4D version due this year.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Corona Renderer 1.1 for 3ds Max ships
Update to popular 3ds Max renderer adds new, faster Bitmap shader and improves handling of particles.
Thursday, June 18th, 2015