If you are aiming for photorealism, V-Ray is a good choice. It gives the user the option to set their own preferences and determine what the output will look like and how long it will take to render. You can find in it the Corona Materials, which makes you able to assign physical properties to objects such as colors, transparency, or opacity. The interface and the overall logic are similar to the famous Maxell Render.

However, it is comfortable and friendly for settings, with few parameters, which allows you to focus on realism, lighting, and materials. In addition, other things as well that you have to discover yourself later.Ĭorona’s interface is a little more complicated compared to V-Ray’s. Besides all these, a File Manager allows you to manage all of your scene files in one place, set file paths, create scene archives, and keep track of assets like textures, IES files, and proxy objects. There is the V-Ray Color Picker, a color manager that allows numeric color value selection in Screen (sRGB) and Rendering (RGB) Color spaces. In the interface, you can find the Frame Buffer that contains a variety of additional rendering tools. It includes several toolbars with easy shortcuts to some of the most commonly used V-Ray features. Very exciting times and healthy competition - I just hope Corona don't ever sell out to Autodesk.V-Ray has an interface that is not as complicated as you may think. So many things I love about VRay, too many to list here, but it can't be hidden how daunting it appears at first sight for newbies (though maybe I see Corona as easy because I've been through the VRay learning curve ?). And there's a free version if you'd prefer. No initial outlay, no 12 month subscriptions - just pay monthly as you go. The other important aspect for me, is from a purchasing new software point of view, i.e. But what took me hours to get right for a recent project using VRay, was sorted in Corona's Activeshade in minutes of playing with it for the first time.

I must say that my first play with Corona yesterday had me in a state of wow-ness.įor anyone (like me) who is a bit reluctant to learn new software (think elderly & learning curves) Corona seems very quick and easy to learn.īut their highlight for me was their ActiveShade - if I had that sort of speed and effortlessness in RT, things would be dandy.

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