Everything you need to begin your journey with Corona for 3ds Max and create stunning renders.
Most new users learn Corona in just one day — and fall in love with it in two.
Create 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.
Installation & activation
Follow our guide to install Corona for 3ds Max and activate your license in just a few simple steps.
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.
Tutorials
Explore Corona’s key features to achieve photorealism in the easiest way possible.
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.
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.
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.
The Chaos documentation is the best place to find in-depth explanations of each Corona feature and parameter, along with detailed information on various settings.