Chaos Shared a Sneak Peek at Corona 9

Chaos has shown what we should expect from its Corona 9 – the newest version of the renderer. 

The video provides "a look behind the curtain" at what the team is working on, including several features first released in V-Ray 6 – procedural clouds, Corona Pattern (known as Enmesh in V-Ray), and other improvements.

The new procedural clouds system allows adding clouds to the sky, controlling their number, shape, and position, and animating them.

Another great new feature is Corona Pattern – what is essentially V-Ray Enmesh. It allows tiling actual geometry across surfaces, which is useful for creating patterns. You don't have to rely on alpha maps for holes and displacement for raised or indented geometry. The feature uses the RAM for the source geometry that you're cloning, so it's pretty easy on the memory.

Other improvements include the fish eye camera's support of depth-of-field, preserve options for a slicer, opacity, and bump for better usability of material overrides, and reduced amount of texture memory required when using out-of-core texture rendering.

The video doesn't specify the release date for Corona 9, but you can try a daily build if you already have a license. You can get the stable version of the renderer for $40/month or $280/year on Corona's website. Also, don't forget to join our Reddit page and our Telegram channel, follow us on Instagram and Twitter, where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.