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Welcome to Corona for Cinema 4D
Alternative PDF help: corona_c4d_info.pdf
Overview
Corona for Cinema 4D is a plugin for Cinema 4D integrating Corona renderer. Current supported C4D versions are R14, R15, and R16. Version R13 might work, but hasn't been tested.
Features
Rendering
- Unbiased/consistent rendering with path tracing, light tracing, bidirectional path tracing
- Progressive, Bucket and Bidir/VCM rendering modes
Camera
- Perspective and orthogonal projection
- Camera / Object motion blur (no deformation yet)
- DOF and bokeh
Corona material
- Diffuse, translucency, reflection, refraction, bumpmapping, displacement, emission
- Full material preview
- Basic preview in viewport
- Rounded corners
- Support for all 2D shaders (including plugin shaders)
- Mix modes
Cinema 4D material
- Only basic support
Sky / Environment
- Physical sky (Hosek and Rawafake models)
- Cinema4D Sky textures supported (including HDRI textures)
- Physically correct sun
Lights
- Corona light (basic area lights, sphere, cylinder, cube)
- Experimental support for native C4D lights
- Viewport integration
Other
- Object instancing
Limitations
- Cinema 4D native materials are not fully supported.
- Object motion blur works only with translation/rotation/scale, support for geometry deformation blur is yet to be added.
- Motion blur does not render in viewport, you must render to Picture viewer.