We’re pleased to announce the release of Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max! This release focuses mostly on optimizations, saving both memory and render times for general rendering, and more specifically for displacement and caustics.

QUICK FACTS

• Memory and render time savings right out of the box, without the need to change anything in the scene.
• 2.5D Displacement – New default displacement calculation method, which gives you much faster scene parsing and even more memory savings.
• Caustics Optimizations – Caustics render faster and use less memory, no changes needed to the scene.
• General Optimizations – There are overall memory and render time savings, including for geometry processing and more.
• ColorCorrect Optimizations – The performance of the Corona Color Correct map has been improved.
• Hair – Corona now uses half the memory, and some artifacts have been removed.
• Corona Material Library updated (17 new basic Hair materials, 10 new Skin materials, and some smaller fixes).