Chaos® Corona is the only renderer created specifically for high-end architectural visualization. Be an artist, not a technician, and achieve photorealism with greater ease than other rendering software.
Usability is Corona’s most powerful feature. Render setup is as simple as pressing “Render”. Most new users learn Corona in just one day — and fall in love with it in two.
From models and assets, to skies and materials, Corona comes with everything you need to build your scene. And the asset library is ever growing!
All Corona features are tightly integrated into Autodesk 3ds Max and Maxon Cinema 4D to ensure the best user experience and impeccable results.
Corona delivers predictable, reliable, and physically plausible results with no compromises in quality. Realistic lighting and materials, including caustics, are yours right out of the box.
Corona constantly introduces powerful workflow tools which save you tons of time in the design process and make rendering easier and faster.
As a Corona user, you are backed by the award-winning Chaos family. Make the most of the Chaos tools guaranteed to integrate smoothly with your favorite render engine.
Chaos Corona delivers predictable, reliable, and physically plausible results with no compromise in quality. It offers both biased and unbiased rendering solutions, along with a 4K cache. Realistic lighting and materials are available right out of the box.
Render images in seconds with the new Corona to Vantage Live Link and export. Use Vantage to explore your scene, using it as an IR while changing lighting, moving objects, or editing materials thanks to the speed of GPU rendering.
Use LightMix to adjust the intensity and color of your lights in the frame buffer, as well as create, save, and load multiple lighting scenarios from just one render.
Enable the Fast Caustics Solver to easily add caustics to your scene. Reflective caustics are then calculated for all materials, with refractive caustics enabled per material as needed, plus you can enable caustics being visible through volumes.
Save time by eliminating the need for third-party software to perform post-production work on your renders, thanks to the wide range of post-processing tools available directly inside the Corona VFB. All of these tools can be adjusted before, during, or after rendering, and settings can be saved for instant reuse in any scene.
Chaos Corona is great for animations as well as stills. Watch our 3-minute showreel showcasing just some of what our users have created using Corona.
Targeted for specific markets, Corona offers the most streamlined and easy-to-use UI without clutter and unnecessary parameters. The default render settings of Corona are generally the best choice in most situations, so there is usually no need to change them.
Chaos Corona is compatible with a wide range of third-party plugins, allowing you to continue using any tools already integrated into your workflow during both Interactive Rendering and final rendering.
With resumable rendering, you can pause your renders in the Virtual Frame Buffer (VFB) and resume them later, enabling a highly flexible workflow.
Enable the Autosave function to save your rendering progress every few minutes in an .exr file. If your render or computer crashes, you'll have the latest progress safely saved.
© leaf-animation studioThe UI has tooltips for most parameters, activated automatically when you hover over the controls. There is also an automatically generated online GUI manual you can consult when you do not have your DCC open.
With Chaos Scatter, you can easily place trees, grass, shrubs, and rocks in your scene. You can limit tree placement on steep slopes and carve out roadways using splines. Chaos Scatter offers a wide range of controls, allowing you to achieve the precise results you’re looking for.
Tile real geometry over a surface with the same ease as tiling a texture. Corona Pattern provides far more realism than alpha, bump, and displacement maps, and it requires far less memory than those alternatives.
Road markings, cracks in concrete, smudges, and dirt on glass — these details add realism to your scene, and Corona Decal makes them easy to implement. Corona Decal is simple to set up, stackable, fully supports displacement, and can affect specific channels and multiple objects.
Corona Slicer is a material you can apply to any object, turning that object into a “slicer” that will cut away geometry non-destructively at render time. You can animate this slicer object, and it all works without the inconsistencies of any sort of boolean operations in the host software.
Easily find and control the most important settings for Lights, Displacement, Proxies, Cameras, and Scatters using Corona Lister and Scatter Lister.
Ever started a render, then minimized 3ds Max to get at something else on your desktop, only to find you can’t maximize Max again until the render is done? This is a thing of the past, as rendering in Corona keeps the 3ds Max UI unblocked.
Corona Physical Material is a highly versatile and realistic material type, designed to simulate real-world materials accurately. It is user-friendly and supports advanced features like clear coat layers, sheen, and anisotropy, allowing you to create a wide range of materials, from simple surfaces to complex, layered textures.
Material previewing uses the same rendering engine as the final frame rendering. The default 3ds Max or Cinema 4D material preview scene is replaced with a custom, more representative Corona scene, so you get a genuine “What You See Is What You Get” material editor.
Chaos Corona's 2.5D Displacement lets you achieve detailed and accurate displacement while still optimizing parsing times and memory usage. You can control how displacement is handled when using a Layered Material, choosing between Blend All Layers (default), Only from base, or Add all layers.
Users can choose between a simple, fast-rendering volume effect in the Corona Sky to simulate atmospheric haze, or the full control of a volumetric material for more complex results.
Easily create stunning bathrooms, kitchens, walls, and floors with procedural tiles thanks to Corona Tile Map. You can now use bitmaps or procedural maps to define the colors of the tiles and repeat, randomize, or even tessellate an image onto the tiles, depending on your needs.
Chaos Corona comes with many useful maps that you will soon find indispensable, such as Ambient Occlusion, Mapping randomization, Multimap, Triplanar mapping, Edge Map/Shader, and more.
You can instantly convert your scene to the Corona Physical Material with the click of a button, whether that is from other renderers such as V-Ray, or from older Corona materials like the Legacy Material.
