Sun and Sky with Chaos Corona for 3ds Max
Learn how to use the Corona Sun and Sky to light your scenes.
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© Vedat AfuziCreate your first Corona render quickly and easily using our beginner-friendly collection of learning resources, including tutorials, webinars, detailed documentation, and free scenes. Once you are comfortable with the basics, be sure to enroll in our Corona Academy to elevate your visualization skills to the next level.
After successfully installing and activating Corona, you’ll want to create a scene and test it out. Here is a user-friendly tutorial on how to quickly and easily create your very first render. By the end of this video you will be able to realistically illuminate your scene, add 3D models and materials, before rendering your final image. Download the empty Interior Scene if you want to follow along.
Learn how to use the Corona Sun and Sky to light your scenes.
With LightMix you easily 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.
Populate your scenes quickly and effortlessly with thousands of high-quality, render-ready models, materials, HDRIs, and presets from Chaos Cosmos.
Learn how to use denoising to significantly reduce the time and passes required for a clean render. Discover which denoising option is best for your render and which settings, if any, you may need to adjust.
Use Tone Mapping to get exactly the look you are after. Tone Mapping comes in a configurable stack of operators so you can add, delete, and move them as you require.
Watch this step-by-step tutorial to learn how the new Corona to Vantage scene export works with 3ds Max, how to render images in seconds, and how to animate your scenes in Chaos Vantage.
By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to use Chaos Scatter to create natural environments by distributing grass, trees, and much more.
Watch this video to learn how to add clouds to our skies in just one click. With Procedural Clouds you can create any type of sky you want, as well as time lapses.
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