Chaos Corona 14

Chaos has released Corona 14, the latest version of its production renderer for architectural visualization and portfolio rendering in 3ds Max and Cinema 4D.

Corona 14 blends human creativity with artificial intelligence, enhanced procedural power, and cosmic inspiration to deliver faster, more flexible, and more expressive results than ever before. From AI-powered workflows to Fabric Material and Night Sky, this release transforms the way you create photorealistic worlds.


- Gaussian splats let you render detailed, memory-efficient environments with accurate reflections and refractions.
- AI Material Generator instantly turns photos into fully mapped, physically accurate PBR materials.
- AI Image Enhancer refines people, vegetation, and terrain with advanced trait controls, without altering other important aspects of your renders.
- AI Upscaler produces crisp, high-resolution renders that are up to four times larger without requiring re-rendering.
- Night Sky adds realistic moonlight, stars, and the Milky Way—with full animation and geographic accuracy.
- Procedural Fabric Material creates woven fabrics with customizable fibers, weaves, and displacement—no bitmaps required.
- Updated VFB 2 and Image Editor deliver cleaner interfaces and smoother workflows.
- You can now export multiple cameras to Vantage.
- Performance upgrades deliver a faster UI and improved rendering efficiency across platforms, with optimized volume sampling for quicker renders.
- Use avoidance groups in Scatter (in 3ds Max for now) to prevent overlap between scattered objects when working with multiple scatters.


Crash Fixes
(3ds Max and Cinema 4D)
- Fixed an issue where the Corona Pattern Mod could crash when using a RaySwitch material or Light material on it.
(3ds Max)
- Corona now automatically fixes NaNs/INFs found in geometry and reports them to users. This also avoids NaN related crashes.
- Fixed a crash when converting a Bitmap that is plugged into MultiMap.
- Fixed a crash when moving the leftmost key in a Ramp using the spinbox.
- Fixed a random crash during open or close of 3ds Max
- Fixed a crash when sampling Anima materials.
(Cinema 4D)
- Fixed a crash when a Layered material was connected to an Outline material.
- Fixed several cases of NaN errors on macOS.
- Fixed issue where "Add existing…" in a Shared shader might result in a loop in shaders (and subsequent crash).
- Fixed a random crash caused by a Corona Proxy object (usually triggered when saving or loading scene).
- Fixed a possible crash in the VFB when enabling/disabling Bloom&Glare.
- Fixed a crash when copying objects with complex material hierarchies between documents.
- Fixed a possible crash when rendering a scene which has multiple Corona Lights using shaders.

Installer fixes
(3ds Max and Cinema 4D)
- Fixed slow uninstallation.
- Fixed issue with installer not running on CPUs without AVX support.

Chaos Corona is a modern high-performance (un)biased photorealistic renderer, available for Autodesk 3ds Max, MAXON Cinema 4D, and as a standalone application. The development of Chaos Corona started back in 2009 as a solo student project of Ondřej Karlík at Czech Technical University in Prague. Corona has since evolved to a full-time commercial project, after Ondřej established a company together with the former CG artist Adam Hotový, and Jaroslav Křivánek, associate professor and researcher at Charles University in Prague. In August 2017, the company became part of Chaos Group, allowing for further expansion and growth. Despite its young age, Corona Renderer has become a production-ready renderer capable of creating high–quality results. Boost your 3ds Max and Cinema 4D render workflows with more tools and features than ever before, including Chaos Cosmos and Scatter, plus Corona Decal and Slicer.

Chaos Corona 14 — New features


Corona 14 introduces highly anticipated Gaussian Splats support, AI-powered creation, Night Sky, Fabric Material, and more powerful features to help you achieve maximum efficiency without compromising quality.
Chaos Czech a.s. is part of Chaos Group, and specializes in developing easy to use, powerful and affordable software for 3D computer graphics and visual effects. Our technology helps artists and designers create photoreal imagery and animation for design, television, and feature films. Corona Renderer is widely used in arch-viz, automotive and product design, and also features VFX capabilities.

Owner: Chaos Czech a.s.
Product Name: Corona
Version: 14
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : https://corona-renderer.com/
Languages Supported: english
System Requirements: Windows *
Software Prerequisites: Autodesk 3ds Max or Maxon Cinema4D
Size: 2.0 Gb