Chaos has released Corona 12 Update 1, the latest version of its production renderer for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D. Let’s explore some important new updates with iRender!

Corona 12 Update 1 introduces an initial implementation of a Live Link. This is just a starting point though, with more functionality to come in future releases.

With this early version, Vantage can be utilized for a form of “Interactive Rendering” that refreshes in real-time as you make adjustments in 3ds Max or Cinema 4D. This detailed ray-traced GPU rendering can be beneficial in certain scenarios while developing your scene. It offers an alternative way to discover ideal camera angles, modify lighting, organize your scene, configure various material aspects, and more.

With this update, you can now send an image directly from the VFB to Chaos Cloud Collaboration, allowing you to share it with your client and engage in discussions using markup and comments. This eliminates the dependence on email, Dropbox, Google Drive, and similar services, plus it means your client isn’t left having to use Paint or Photoshop to draw attention to certain parts of the image.

Cloud Collaboration enables you to create multiple projects and manage their sharing options. It also takes care of image versioning throughout the project and serves as a convenient method for delivering final renders.

To sum up, Cloud Collaboration makes it easy to share images with your clients, sending them right from the VFB. Then, you can discuss changes via markup, send deliverables, set up Virtual Tours, and open the door to much more in the future.

The first improvement to Caustics will now give a significantly cleaner result in the same amount of render time. Can not specify an exact figure for the speed increase since it largely depends on the prevalence of caustics in your scene. If caustics are the primary focus of the scene, you’ll experience a more significant speed improvement compared to a scene where caustics have a minor role.

As an approximation, Caustics themselves should be visually “about twice as good” in the same amount of render time.

The second Caustics improvement allows you to adjust the intensity of the Caustics in the Beauty pass, removing the need to use render elements and post-processing to get the results you are looking for.

Please note that you must set the Surface Multiplier at render time – it cannot be adjusted in post. IR can be used to find the right value before committing to a final render.

The final Caustics improvement is that you now have the option to enable the visibility of reflected or refracted rays created from Caustics as they pass through a Volumetric material.  A common illustration of this is sunlight underwater, where the refraction of light through the shifting water surface creates a captivating display of light beams within the water volume.

Let’s see other cases, such as underwater swimming pool lights passing through steam in a heated pool or jacuzzi, or light beams reflecting off the mirrored surface of a disco/mirror ball through the dry ice in the atmosphere of a night club, or sunlight reflected off windows through an early morning mist and more.

With surface Caustics, you can control the intensity of the volume Caustics in the Beauty pass.

First comes Auto Exposure, a checkbox that lets Corona 12 choose the exposure values for you, just like when using a modern camera. This can serve as a simple starting point, with the option to make additional adjustments through the regular Exposure control or to bake them into the tone mapping.

If “Update during animation” is checked, then the automatic exposure and/or white balance will be recalculated for each frame of an animation, helping with scenes that move from dimly to brightly lit areas.

Additionally, a “Strength” parameter ranges from 0, which means no exposure adjustment, to a maximum of 1, where the calculated auto exposure value is fully applied. This allows for automatic adjustments to exposure or white balance for an effective starting point or to respond to changing lighting during animations. Furthermore, a new algorithm enhances white balance for more pleasing outcomes.

Auto White Balance functions have the same possibilities as mentioned above. There’s one extra improvement to White Balance though, as we have changed the algorithm it uses to one that gives a more natural look. For compatibility, any existing scenes will load with a “Legacy White Balance” to ensure they render the same as before. In new scenes, the new White Balance will be the default. While the difference is subtle, the results are more in line with the effects of White Balance in other popular software like Photoshop.

NVIDIA’s new Image Upscaling offers two key benefits.

First, it enables quick test animations by rendering images at a quarter size (e.g., 960×540 for 1920×1080) and then using AI Upscaler, resulting in a rendering speed that’s approximately four times faster. However, these animations lack temporal consistency, leading to noticeable flickering.

Second, when enabled for Image Refresh (IR), it can improve responsiveness during editing, although parsing times may limit this benefit. It’s particularly useful for scene setup, lighting, and camera angles but less effective for detailed material editing due to reduced detail.

Please note that NVIDIA Denoising is always applied to the image when Upscaling is used, both in IR and rendering modes. Also, just like NVIDIA Denoising, this requires a compatible NVIDIA card.

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Corona Renderer is purely CPU-based. It uses Intel Embree Ray Tracing Kernels, the fastest CPU ray tracing solution on the market. Since they mesh well with the Corona architecture, they are an important factor in its performance.

By rendering only on the CPU, we can avoid all bottlenecks, problems, and limitations of GPU rendering, which include the unsuitability of GPU architectures for full GI, limited memory, limited support for third-party plugins and maps, unpredictability, the need for specialist knowledge or hardware to add nodes, high cost, high heat and noise.

Also, Corona usually comes with Cinema 4D and 3ds Max. We support all 3D software including Cinema 4D and 3ds Max with their plug-ins. Moreover, we have preinstalled Cinema 4D and you can use a free Cinema 4D license from us. With Corona, you can consider our 3S server.

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References: chaos.com

Since the advent and development of GPU rendering, more and more software vendors are focusing on developing render engines that can leverage the power of Multi-GPU. In today’s article, let’s take a look at the software that can render with multiple GPUs at the same time and bring much faster corresponding rendering speed.

Redshift is a production-quality, GPU-accelerated renderer with support for biased global illumination techniques. It offers a pretty comprehensive toolset to up their render output, in terms of both quality and volume, as it is both powerful and efficient. Supporting the latest developments in shader technology and volumetrics, there is clearly a lot on offer, and it’s easy to see how Redshift could fit into many different pipelines and workflows.

As we all know, Redshift’s performance scales very well across multiple GPUs.

Besides, Redshift supports “out of core” rendering, which means that if a GPU runs out of memory (due to a large number of polygons or textures in the scene), it will use the system’s memory instead. This can have a performance cost in some cases, so it is usually better to use GPUs with as much VRAM as you can afford to minimize the performance impact. Certain types of data (such as textures) work extremely well with out-of-core rendering. This means that even if your scene includes 4K/8K textures, you can still expect fast rendering.

OTOY is proud to advance state of the art graphics technologies with groundbreaking machine learning optimizations, out-of-core geometry support, massive 10-100x speed gains in the scene graph, and RTX ray tracing GPU hardware acceleration. Octane is tightly integrated into many modelling software. Much of Octane’s functionality can be found in the Render Setup window. The latest version of Octane now includes a menu item as well which can be used to set Octane as the current renderer.

Octane RTX hardware acceleration brings 2-5x render speed increases to NVIDIA ray tracing GPUs with multi-GPU support. RTX acceleration speed gains increase in more complex scenes and can be benchmarked using RTX OctaneBench.

Octane comes in 3 versions. For Octane Studio editions which have 2 GPU limit, you can only maximize render with 2GPU acceleration, for Octane Enterprise and Octane Enterprise+ editions, there’s no limit on the number of GPUs at all, the more GPUs you have, the faster your render speed is multiplied.

Maxwell Render is an unbiased 3D render engine, developed by Next Limit Technologies in Madrid, Spain. This stand-alone software is used in the film, animation, and VFX industry, as well as in architectural and product design visualization. Its trademark Multilight feature, which permits the changing of light intensity and colors in real-time, was used in the feature film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

The GPU engine is an alternative to the CPU engine. It enables you to compute renders using your GPUs (graphics cards). They are typically much faster than CPUs, especially when using multiple graphics cards. Many lines of code have been changed in this version to make the GPU engine even faster and to allow for the rendering of larger images.

Hardware requirements for GPU engines

• Graphics cards must be CUDA-based. Because the GPU engine is built on Nvidia’s CUDA computing platform, only Nvidia graphics cards will work. AMD or Intel graphics cards will not work.
• Microarchitectures such as Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, and Ampere are supported (compute capability 5.0 and up). Although the Kepler architecture is not supported, cards based on it may work.
• It is critical to keep graphics card drivers up to date.

Maxwell 5, for a “more than 50x speed-up, this plugin compared with a high-end CPU”. With multiple GPUs working in parallel you’ll get an unprecedented experience. To put it another way, with Maxwell 5, time is now in your hands. In addition, Multilight now runs on the GPU engine, while the GPU engine itself now natively supports Nvidia’s new Ampere GPUs, including the GeForce RTX 30 Series. The new version also provides integrated cloud rendering for use across an internal network or third-party render farms.

FStorm is a GPU-only renderer being developed by PinkSoft LTD since 2015 and becomes the most popular GPU render with architectural 3d artists due to its speed, quality and simplicity.  It is one of the best render engines for 3Dsmax. FStorm is straightforward, fast, and realistic with convenient materials and light sources. Hope that this amazing renderer will be available for major 3D software in the near future.

There are many unique features in FStorm renderer such as improved tone mapping, glossy reflection shader, glare effects, light sampling, improved raytracer, and optimized QMC sampling. Build-in scene converter easily and carefully converts any scene from Corona, Octane, and Vray render. Users can move the camera and get real-time updates in the frame buffer window.

FStorm Render is based on CUDA technology, which allows this renderer to work well on NVIDIA graphics cards. Interestingly, FStorm is likely to be compatible with multiple GPUs on one computer. For instance, if it’s scalable to 6 or 10 GPUs simultaneously in a single machine, users can utilize the robust computing system to render their job while using FStorm Render.

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