Corona 8 for 3ds Max and Cinema4D released!

New features in Corona 8:

• Now you can use Chaos Scatter  which can limit the trees on steep slopes, and carve out a roadway with splines.
• Corona Renderer can now use the assets from Chaos Cosmos library. You have an instant access to a huge collection of assets, materials, and HDRI skies, right from within your 3D host application.
• Corona Decal - Easily add surface details or imperfections such as scratches, craters, cracks, smudges, splatters, and more, including displacement.
• Corona Slicer - Use the Corona Slicer material to cut away sections of geometry at render time. You can cut with any shape that has the Slicer material applied, and even add caps to the exposed surfaces.

• Corona Curvature Map - Add dirt or wear-and-tear derived from how quickly the surface is curving at that point.
• Cryptomatte support - Generate industry-standard Cryptomattes, making it easy to isolate and adjust individual components in your render in post.
• Customisable Tone Mapping - Get the exact final look you want with new operators such as Tone Curve and Advanced Filmic Mapping, all in a user-configurable stack of operators so you can add, delete, and move them as necessary.
• Adjustable PBR Reflection Tail - With this new parameter for the Corona Physical Material, you can create blurred reflections for metals to give a softer look with more “depth” to the material. It correctly affects caustics, too.
• Caustics Include/Exclude - Remove unwanted caustics with new Include/Exclude options.
• Dome Mapping for Environments - (Cinema 4D only, already exists in 3ds Max) - Ideal for automotive visualizations, product renders, and more, this mode “sticks” your 3D objects in place within the environment map as you move the camera around.
• Support for M1 machines (Cinema 4D only) - Corona now supports running on M1 processors, bringing a 40-50% speed increase compared to running Corona under Rosetta.
• New licensing system - Corona now uses the same licensing system as all Chaos products, making it easy to manage and maintain all your Chaos licenses in one place.