The new Corona 15 has arrived, delivering a major leap in creative power by embedding AI directly into your workflow. By making AI ideation with Veras available across all plans, the latest update streamlines everything from early conceptual ideation to high-fidelity cinematic delivery. With additional updates focused on extreme detail and rendering efficiency, Corona 15 is designed to help you create more variations with less manual effort.
Key takeaways:
- AI ideation built into your workflow: Instantly explore new creative possibilities with a direct bridge to Veras, now available in all Corona plans.
- More detail, more depth: Achieve richer, more detailed results with less manual effort using features like the new Glints layer and more natural environment blending of Splats.
- Build faster with less effort: Enjoy a more efficient workflow with per-camera resolution, AI-powered semantic search, smarter animation rendering, curated Cosmos Sets, and more.
- Seamless collaboration: Bring your team and clients into a clear, structured review process and let them explore scenes easily via virtual 3D streaming.
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More power for artists. Same simplicity.
The new Corona 15 is here, and with it, AI ideation with Veras is now available in all Corona plans!
This major release delivers more AI power across the full workflow, further simplifies it, and brings together AI-powered ideation, photorealism, and cinematic storytelling into a single workspace.
With the integration of Veras across all Corona tiers, you now have a production-proven platform that handles everything from the first conceptual spark to the final cinematic delivery.
Read more to discover what’s new and how to make the most of this update.
What’s new in Corona 15?
Discover how Corona 15 is changing the way you create.
AI ideation built into your workflow
Instantly explore new creative possibilities with a direct bridge to Veras AI, now available in all Corona plans.
By embedding AI directly into the Corona interface, we’ve removed the friction of third-party tools, letting you use AI exactly when and where you need it without breaking your flow.
Here’s what you can do with Veras within your workflow:
- Faster ideation and creative direction: Send a screenshot from the Corona VFB to Veras at any stage to generate dozens of concepts instantly. Ideate and share directions with clients before committing to a full scene build.
- Rapid iteration: Handle feedback in the image; swap materials, change seasons, in-paint assets, or adjust lighting without ever going back to the 3D scene.
- Instant animation from stills: Turn static renders into short animations with no complex keyframe setup required. Generate high-quality video content directly from your existing renders.
- Create more variations with less work: Generate style variations and additional views from a single render, or improve the quality of specific surfaces like walls and floors without re-rendering.
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More detail, more depth
Achieve richer, more detailed results with less manual effort. Corona 15 introduces features that add more depth to your scenes while removing technical complexity.
- Enhanced material detail: Use the new Glints layer to simulate the sparkle of metallic flakes, sand, or snow.
- Natural environment blending: Gaussian Splats now bounce Global Illumination light onto 3D models, allowing captured drone footage or environments to blend realistically into your scene.
- Unique light override material: Create groundbreaking special effects by controlling how materials appear under different light sources. This feature allows a material to look one way under standard lighting and transform entirely under specific lights, unlocking creative looks like paint, chalk, or fingerprints glowing under UV light without complex setups or post-production.
- Cinema 4D particles: Corona 15 introduces initial support for rendering native Cinema 4D particles. This is an early foundation because we want you to tell us what features you most want to see and have you define how the functionality develops!
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Build faster with less effort
Build scenes and environments faster with easier-to-find assets, smarter animation rendering, and enjoy a more efficient workflow.
- Find what you need, fast: Use natural language with AI-powered semantic search to find the perfect Cosmos asset
- Smarter animation rendering: Reduce render times in 3ds Max with a process that no longer requires reprocessing the entire scene for every frame.
- Assemble scenes easily: Use the new, curated Cosmos Sets to quickly populate your scenes
- An easier workflow, every day: Place the sun or moon via just one click in the VFB, save resolutions per camera*, build more impactful compositions with the new composition guides, and more.
*Currently available in 3ds Max
Work better together, get approvals faster
Corona 15 makes collaboration seamless, bringing your team and clients closer to the creative process from first draft to final delivery.
- Seamless review process: Bring your team and clients into a clear, structured review process and move seamlessly from first draft to final concept faster.
- 3D streaming & walkthroughs: Allow clients and teams to explore your scene at their own pace. Simply share a 3D streaming link so everyone can review your visualization interactively, on any device, no software needed. Keep everyone aligned with visual annotations and clear feedback.
- Video collaboration: Share and review moving images without switching platforms. Chaos Cloud Collaboration now supports video files, allowing teams to present and review animations, walkthroughs, and camera flythroughs using the platform’s existing review and annotation tools.
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Smarter asset enhancement & better AI precision
Enhance massive surfaces and generate high-fidelity materials with significantly more control and predictability.
- AI Enhancer (Large surfaces): Automatically add realistic wear, dirt, and subtle scale-accurate imperfections to expansive, uniform areas like floors, walls, and terrain without manual re-texturing.
- Improved object accuracy: Enjoy more reliable single-object enhancements that preserve an asset's original characteristics, drastically reducing manual fixes.
- 4K AI Materials: Materials generated by the AI Material Generator now support crisp, high-resolution 4K textures. You can also fine-tune normal, roughness, and tiling settings using an enhanced interactive 3D preview in Cosmos before saving.
What’s new in the Corona Collection?
With this release, Corona continues evolving beyond visualization into a full ecosystem for creatives. Here is what’s new in the Corona Collection:
Lifelike storytelling with Anima
Populating commercial projects and urban spaces just got incredibly fast, removing the manual work of placing assets one by one.
- Instant parking lots: Transform empty asphalt into realistic, populated perpendicular, oblique, or parallel parking arrangements in just a few clicks.
- Automatic vehicle lighting: Traffic generated in Anima now glows with physically accurate headlights and taillights automatically, offering an ultimate shortcut for atmospheric night shots.
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More realism with Chaos Vantage
Bring your real-time environments to life with deeper artistic controls and dynamic celestial and environmental effects.
- Real-time animated water: Drop photorealistic, ray-traced water into your scene for instant, parameter-driven animation, perfect for everything from tranquil infinity pools to vast oceans.
- Fluid simulator improvements: Gain greater control over real-time smoke and temperature expansion, with new VDB cache exporting to seamlessly bring those simulations back into 3ds Max or Cinema 4D.
- Toon outlines: Emphasize silhouettes and edges to easily illustrate early-stage design concepts or guide clients through complex scenes without post-processing.
- Solar eclipse effect: Position the moon directly in front of the sun disc in Vantage to capture breathtaking moments of celestial drama.
FAQs
Is Veras included in my current Corona plan?
Yes, with the release of Corona 15, Veras is now available across all Corona tiers, allowing you to use AI without any friction from third-party tools.
Which software supports the new Glints layer?
The Glints layer is available in Corona for both 3ds Max and Cinema 4D. It can be used to simulate the realistic sparkle of materials like metallic flakes, sand, snow, and tarmac, adding a brilliant finishing touch to your renders that is especially visible in animations.
How does Gaussian Splatting improve environment blending?
In Corona 15, Gaussian Splats can now bounce Global Illumination light onto 3D models. This allows captured drone footage or specific environments to blend realistically and naturally into your 3D scene.
Can I generate animations from static images?
Yes, through the Veras integration, you can turn static renders into short animations without complex keyframe setups, making it easier to create high-quality video content.
How does AI semantic search help with scene building?
The new AI-powered semantic search allows you to find assets in Chaos Cosmos or characters in Anima using natural language, helping you locate the perfect model in seconds.