Getting Started with Chaos Corona for Cinema 4D 

Thank you for the kind words! We do hope that using Corona (and learning it) is more simple than you might expect, and that it can be calming too :) Thanks! Tom

Almost like having Corona Beer and doing this tutorial at the same time.

Thank you for the feedback! We'll add it to our list of future tutorials. Thanks! Tom

Thank you for the kind words, glad you found the video useful!

Thank you bro😀

Thank you!

Thank you for the kind words and glad you found it useful! Tom

We hope that's a good and popular gamer RU-vidr :)

You can edit the materials of an imported model easily; you can swap the model to being loaded fully rather than as a proxy, then it's just a model in the scene like any other and you can edit it just like anything else; so long as your colleague has a Corona or V-Ray license (and so has Cosmos) you can share the scene as you normally would any scene that contains proxies. Hope that answers the questions :) Thanks! Tom

It's not what Corona is aimed at, and for more advanced uses with teams and a workflow pipeline V-Ray would be a better fit, but for a one person project and starting out, it might be fine to try out Corona (test the free trial first to see if it fits your needs!). Some examples created with Corona: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bl1FOKpFY2Q.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pZm94gQBzOQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wcWorKthBrI.html Hope this helps in your decision! Thanks! Tom

@@ChaosCorona thanks 👍

Most welcome!

Best thing to do is ask for the experience of other Corona users - head over to the forum as there are folks there who are using Corona on the M1 machines forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?board=49.0 - hope this helps! Tom

I have a Mac Studio with M1 Max Chip and Corona works great; smoothly and fast.

@@fernandolozano7376 thanks

There are no plans at present to develop Corona for GPU, so no need to wait ;) Being fully CPU is either something you need and prefer (due to quality, reliability, compatibility, etc.), and if that's the case, then Corona is for you - if you require GPU, then Corona is not the solution you are looking for and we'd point you to the excellent V-Ray GPU as a great alternative! Thanks! Tom

Okay…. I’ve figured it out… The trial, out of the ‘box’ doesn’t have the same settings that are shown in this video. In the Corona VFB, there’s a setting called Simple Exposure. In the video it’s set to -5.144, but mine was set at zero. I don’t think you should create videos in this manner tbh, it’s dishonest. If sky and sun doesn’t give realistic settings out of the box, you should go back to the drawing board, not tweak obscure settings that make it work. Day one and I’m not impressed so far. Nothing I can’t produce in the standard renderer a lot quicker.

@@grrinc Sorry to hear you ended up frustrated! The Exposure setting is not obscure however, it's something that does need adjusting in every scene, and by default it's set to give a good exposure for an interior scene lit by only a few windows - there's no exposure setting that will work for every scene by default and it always has to be adjusted, either a little or a lot (pretty much the one parameter you will always adjust). We'll keep in mind calling that out in future videos! Thanks! Tom

@@ChaosCorona Thanks for replying and I’ll keep that in mind as I persevere. May I ask how many passes your render took to achieve the noise free image in the thumbnail? The video implies around 20 passes. I have an intel I7 and my image was still full of noise after 250 passes. 20 minutes later I gave up. What system specs was used on your tutorial? I’d appreciate these details so I can manage my expectations. Sorry if I sound a bit off. Ive spent the last 3 weeks testing 3rd party C4D renderers and find all of them either buggy or slow.

@@ChaosCorona As long as you mentioned the Exposure why don't you explain where it is ? It is obscure and those users who aren't aware are watching a tutorial to learn things, not to hunt around on the interface

@@grrinc 250 passes does not sound right at all - systems used are generally in the range of a 3960X or similar. To be honest, if you have 250 passes and a lot of noise still, it would be best to head to the forums where you can share your version of the scene, screengrabs of settings, etc. so that support and the community can help out, as something sounds off there but impossible to diagnose what within the limits of RU-vid comments :( This would be a good place so we can have a proper communication channel to help you out, forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?board=49.0 - also, sorry to hear about those frustrating 3 weeks, that does not sound fun. Anyway, we'll be happy to do what we can to help ease things on the Corona side at least! Tom

This is not possible - also the Corona Material Library will be removed, probably in Corona 9, as it will be integrated as part of the Cosmos service instead. You can check progress on our tentative roadmap at trello.com/c/CnYaaKq8/131-unify-cosmos-and-corona-material-library . Thanks! Tom

Corona 9 does, yes (final version due out today). Thanks! Tom

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