Live Link was added in Corona 12 Update 1, see kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKTLXmtvqKt0hJo for Cinema 4D or kzbin.info/www/bejne/opvZoq1vodishrc for 3ds Max, and kzbin.info/www/bejne/an-XkKePpa51qNU for the walkthrough of all features in 12 Update 1. Hope this helps! Tom

Hi! For questions like this, please post over on the forums (forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?board=49.0 ) because then the support team as well as the Corona community will see it, and because the forums can be used to post images, share scenes, etc. which can't happen in KZbin comments. You may also want to check the videos regarding Pattern, at kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5TVo5Z7nLWFeNk , kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKmXhJaHecp0bbc , and kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2SWpJqVaaqnhq8 . Hope this helps! Tom

The Corona Material Library is now available inside Cosmos, so it is not included in the installer. If you have it installed from a previous version of Corona, then it will still be installed after running the new installer (it doesn't get uninstalled). If for some reason it has been uninstalled, then a download button will be shown on opening the Corona Material Library from inside 3ds Max or Cinema 4D. Thanks! Tom

@ChaosCorona thanks tom ♥️

@@ibdesign8207 You are welcome! Looks like I missed you asking this question earlier, on another video - sorry about that :( But glad to get you the answer now! Tom

@@ChaosCorona Don't worry at all. Thank you for your help at all times

The Corona Material Library is now available inside Cosmos, so it is not included in the installer. If you have it installed from a previous version of Corona, then it will still be installed after running the new installer (it doesn't get uninstalled). If for some reason it has been uninstalled, then a download button will be shown on opening the Corona Material Library from inside 3ds Max or Cinema 4D. Thanks! Tom

Sorry you are having problems - for questions such as this, please post over on our forums under "I Need Help" because we will need to see things such as screen shots of your material set up, renders that show the problem you are referring to (and please also include which version of Max, which version of Corona, etc. when you post there too). KZbin comments doesn't allow sharing of images, and without more info we won't be able to understand what is going wrong. forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?board=29.0 Thanks in advance for posting over on the forums! Tom

Sorry to hear you feel that way :( By and large people like how we present and teach things - so that we can aim to improve, can you tell us what it is you would like to see in future videos that you feel would improve them? Thanks! Tom

Videos from KZbin can't be downloaded, but there should be no need to download them as they are always here whenever you want to refer to them. Thanks! Tom

@@ChaosCorona Thank you! I always download videos to my computer to watch on my computer whenever I want, so I don't have to go online all the time, because our internet doesn't always work well.

Ah I see! We haven't done any extra setting to the video on KZbin, it should be just as downloadable (or not) as any other video here, apologies if that isn't working as expected though - that would be something on the KZbin side of things since ours are indeed just "regular" videos :) Thanks! Tom

This is our second major update this year and this one alone adds faster caustics, new volume caustics (which are offered by very few render engines), more control over the caustic brightness without having to control that in post, automatic exposure and white balance, improved white balance algorithm, the collaboration features of Chaos Cloud which include Virtual Tours and which costs nothing extra, image upscaling for faster IR or draft animations, and of course all the other smaller features and bug fixes. That follows our previous update this year which had Curved Decals, a totally reworked VFB 2, Corona Pattern improvements, Corona Sky improvements, and migrating the Corona Material Library to Cosmos so you don't have to use two material library systems (and the usual lots of other improvements and fixes). All without mentioning anything Vantage (which has been the feature that most users have expressed their excitement about, despite it being an additional product). Of course you are always welcome to tell us your preferred improvements on the Ideas Portal at chaoscorona.ideas.aha.io/ - upvote if someone has already posted the idea, or post it if it's not on there already! Hope this helps! Tom

Thank you for the kind words! Tom

No need for a video, the list of supported features is at docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Corona+for+3ds+Max+Features :) You can also check the V-Ray version of the document, because if it is not supported from V-Ray it means Vantage itself does not support that feature at the moment (so it would be impossible to offer support for that feature from Corona, too), that can be seen at docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/V-Ray+for+3ds+Max+Features. Hope this helps! Tom

Correct, not everything is supported. First, Vantage itself needs to have an equivalent shader, which it does not for the Distance shader at present (which means it is not supported from V-Ray either, see docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/V-Ray+for+3ds+Max+Features ). There may be some other things that are supported by Vantage (and V-Ray) that are not supported from Corona yet, and for that information you can check docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Corona+for+3ds+Max+Features . Hope this helps! Tom

Sorry you feel that way :( May I ask you to give some feedback on what you would like to see in Vantage so that it would not feel backdated to you, over on the Ideas Portal for it at chaosvantage.ideas.aha.io/ ? That way we can actively take steps to improve it. You can either vote for a suggestion if it's already there, or add a new suggestion on what it needs if it there is not one already on there. Thanks! Tom

Thank you for the kind words! Tom

Hi! For questions such as this, please post on the forums under the relevant "I Need Help" section (there's one for Max, and one for C4D), over at forum.corona-renderer.com/ . That way the support team and community will see the question and be able to give advise. Thanks! Tom

The information should be the same as in this tutorial, as the VR functionality was complete and nothing has changed for VR since this video was made. If you have any questions or something is confusing, do please post on the "I Need Help" section of the forum at forum.corona-renderer.com/ (there's one such section for Max, and one for C4D). Thanks! Tom

You are welcome! Glad you like the release :) Tom

TY for the feedback! Yes, if you open the CXR in the Image Editor, it will not have these new features as the CIE has not yet been updated for the last few versions of Corona. It is something that we plan on doing, but it's a big project due to the fact the VFB was totally rewritten and so the CIE will need to be rewritten too. But it is planned to happen at some point! Thanks! Tom

Unfortunately this is affecting a small set of users, and is being investigated. Right now it is not clear why some people are experiencing this, while most have no such lag at all, but this is our highest priority when it comes to fixes. Tom

@@ChaosCorona thank you. i reverted back to windows 10.. again. and its ok now.

​@@AndreiTheBadger I have the same problem on windows 10, there is a little pinging in the viewport.

Thank you for the feedback! For suggestions for Cloud Collaboration, head over to the Ideas Portal for it at chaoscloud.ideas.aha.io/ and either vote for the idea if it is there already, or add it as a new suggestion if not :) Thanks! Tom

I'm unaware of any other reports of this, so can I ask you to submit it as a bug through the ticketing system so the support team and devs can take a look into it? support.chaos.com/requests/new for that and thanks in advance for submitting the report there! Tom

There are no plans to develop Corona for anything other than the existing two DCCs (Max and Cinema 4D), sorry. Tom

@@ChaosCorona Corona is one of the go to's in arc viz, and there are significantly more people doing arc viz in blender than c4d. Please consider this for the future.

Most welcome! Tom

Don't know, sorry - on checking KZbin, it says it has generated the automatic captions, but as you say the option is greyed out on playing back the video :( Tom

@@ChaosCorona It's showing now, thanks.

Excellent, glad to hear it is working! Not sure what happened there. Thanks for letting us know! Tom

Sorry you are having problems, but unfortunately KZbin is not the place for tech support - you can't share images, scenes, etc. which we'd need to diagnose what is going on, and the tech support team can't monitor comments here. Please send in a ticket via support.chaos.com/requests/new . When sending in the ticket do please include all relevant info like version of Corona, host software (and version of it), which OS, example images that illustrate what you mean - this saves the first few communications back and forth being us asking for more information to find out what is going on and be able to offer help. Thanks! Tom

For any and all feature suggestions, please upvote for it (or add it if it is not already there) in the Ideas Portal at chaoscorona.ideas.aha.io/. As to why it's hard, this is one of those topics where you'd need to be a developer with an understanding of our code for us to be able to explain that, but if it was trivial or easy it would have been done already (and just because another engine with a different approach and code has it, is not an indicator of it being easy in another engine). Thanks! Tom

@@ChaosCorona Thanks for the reply. I've already added it on the forums and on the ideas page. I understand coding perfectly well and its almost the same thing as many of the other features already in Corona. You can already make lights only affect specific objects, slice materials affect certain objects, decals only affect specific objects, make lights affect specific objects, turn relfections/refractions on and off.. It's just an evolution and combination of those things. Compared to creating complex caustics in volumetrics this should be a walk in the park. The last reply I got about this wasn't about difficulty anyway, it was about it not being realistic. Which just doesnt make sense when you can do all the other things I've just listed. Sorry for being arsey about it but I've been asking for this feature for years and keep getting different reasons for it not to be added when it would make a lot of peoples lives a lot easier.

An important distinction is I didn't say you have to understand code, but understand our code and the way Corona approaches resolving light transport. Just to note in the things you mentioned, in Corona you can't make lights only affect particular objects, that's another one of those things that is hard because Corona is fundamentally following physically realistic rules. That too comes up as a request now and then. The problem with breaking realism is it is one of the things people choose Corona for, that realistic results are easily achieved, and bending those rules in one place can have unforeseen consequences for other parts of the engine and start making Corona harder to get to realism. Anyway, as noted, if it's on the Ideas Portal, it will be considered (but as you also pointed out, it's been asked for before and has not been selected for implementation at any stage yet - we do promise to consider every request, but we don't promise to do every request). Thanks! Tom

@@ChaosCorona you absolutely can make a light only affect particular objects. Theres include/exlude. Set it to include and pick an object. Its pretty worrying that the person running the youtube account doesnt know this. Nothing that we do is realistic. Its CGI. In the real world we have to use camera tricks and tools to fake things in and out that arent desired. Thats all I'm asking for. One more little tool. We already have countless tools that arent realistic so its a nonsense argument. I can already make an object not visible to all reflections. Why not be able to choose which reflections? Anyway, I've had this same conversation multiple times so I'll leave it to the vote on the ideas portal. Thanks for the reply

Hi! I don't actually run the KZbin account, so no need for alarm on whether I miss a feature that is already in there ;) The recent feature request I've seen was in fact specific to being able to do something similar for environment lighting (HDRI), sorry for the mix up, that left me in mind that it wasn't done for any sort of lighting (went and checked and ofc it does work for everything, including the sun... but not HDRIs at the moment). Our support team knows everything inside out and back to front though, they are the ones I'd call the real experts on each specific feature in Corona :) And yes, it's on the Portal, and all things there will always be considered whenever we are doing planning for the future, and that is what counts! Thanks! Tom

While we do aim to guarantee old scenes will open in new versions, the other way around is of course not possible - exactly like here, the new version can have features the old version was completely unaware of and simply can't handle or process. Since Corona is subscription based and everyone has access to any version they want to use, the person you are sending to can install Corona Update 1, and can use the multi loader approach so that when they run Max normally, they are using the old version, but they can also run Max with the newer version when they need to process scenes that you send them. docs.chaos.com/display/CRMAX/Multiloaders for information on how to set up multiloaders. Hope this helps! Tom

Unfortunately, there is no version of Corona in SketchUp so it is not a topic our channel would handle. The best suggestion would be to share the idea for the useful tutorial on the Ideas Portal for Vantage, at chaosvantage.ideas.aha.io/ - hope this helps! Tom

Thank you, we're happy you found it useful! Tom

Sorry, no, there are no plans to develop Corona for anything beyond the currently two supported DCCs of Max and C4D. Tom

Glad to hear you love the new faster caustics plus volumetric caustics! On baking, can I ask you to head to our Ideas Portal at chaoscorona.ideas.aha.io/ and either vote for the suggestion if it's there already, or add it if it is not. A bit more info would be good if and when you post there - e.g. baking for which intended end render engine / use? Thanks! Tom

Thank you for the feedback! Rendering an animation created in your DCC through Vantage is our next highest priority (and just to be 100% accurate, you can already do animation in Vantage as seen by the awesome work by narrativ. - you just have to build the animation in Vantage, not in the DCC). Thanks! Tom

It does already - by connection to Vantage! There never will be a rewrite of Corona into GPU as has been noted many times before (GPU still has limitations, plus such a thing is a rewrite not just some small conversion, so would bring all other Corona development to a halt for two years, which doesn't make sense). But you can now easily send the scene to Vantage for all the benefits of the best GPU renderer out there :) Hope this helps! Tom

Thank you for the kind words! It's something few render engines do, and should open up new creative opportunities. I am really looking forward to seeing what people create using this. Thanks! Tom

Thank you! We're excited to see what people start creating with the new caustics functionality (or even just the old caustics, but faster lol). On the suggestion, can I ask you add it to our Ideas Portal at chaoscorona.ideas.aha.io/ so that it doesn't get lost here in the KZbin comments? Thanks! Tom

Hahahah thank you! I will keep on rockin' - and you do the same :) Tom

@ChaosCorona Ouuuu,..yeah..man😉

As mentioned in the video and the blog at www.chaos.com/blog/corona-12-update-1, animation from the DCC (Max or C4D) is not supported in this initial version of the Live Link, but will be coming in the future. We had hoped to have it working for this release, but it didn't turn out to be possible to get that far along - yet ;) Hope this helps! Tom

CPU has advantages over GPU in many things, but of course now you have the best of both worlds, with Corona bringing all the CPU benefits, and Vantage bringing all the GPU benefits :) Thanks! Tom

You are welcome, hope we didn't keep you waiting for too long! :) Tom

You are welcome! Tom