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Corona for 3ds Max
Last updated 1 September 2026.
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Activating Corona
Once you've installed Corona for 3ds Max, you need to activate it. The process varies slightly depending on the Corona version you are activating:
Installation and Licensing
Activating Corona Trial
This page provides information on activating and using your Corona Free Trial.
Installation and Licensing
Camera Tab
This page provides information on the Camera Tab of the Render Setup window.
Render Settings
Chaos Corona Toolbar
This page provides information on the Corona Toolbar.
Tools
Chaos Cosmos
This page provides information on using the Chaos Cosmos Browser with Corona for 3ds Max.
Tools
Chaos Scatter
This page provides information on using Chaos Scatter with Corona for 3ds Max.
Objects
Chaos Scatter Edge Trimming Map
This page provides information on the Chaos Scatter Edge Trimming Map, its settings and usage.
Maps
Chaos Scatter Surface Color Map
This page provides information on the Chaos Scatter Surface Color Map, its settings and usage.
Maps
Chaos Telemetry
This page provides information on the Chaos Improvement Program for Corona for 3ds Max.
Installation and Licensing
Common Abbreviations
This page provides information on the commonly used abbreviations in Chaos Corona.
Overview
Corona AO Map
This page provides information on the Corona AO map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Bitmap
This page provides information on the Corona Bitmap loader, its settings and usage.
Maps
Corona Bump Converter Map
This page provides information on the Corona Bump Converter Map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Camera
This page offers information on Corona Camera in 3ds Max.
Objects
Corona Camera Modifier
This page provides information on the Corona Camera Modifier, its settings, and usage.
Modifiers
Corona Color Correct Map
This page provides information on the Corona Color Correct Map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Color Map
This page provides information on the Corona Color Map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Color Picker
This page provides information on using the Corona Color Picker with Corona for 3ds Max.
Tools
Corona Converter
This page provides information on the Corona Converter, its settings, and usage.
Tools
Corona Curvature Map
This page provides information on the Corona Curvature map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Data Map
This page provides information on the Corona Data map in 3ds Max.
Maps
Corona Decal
This article provides information on the Corona Decal object, its settings, and usage examples.
Objects
Corona Displacement Modifier
This page provides information on the Corona Displacement Modifier, its settings and usage.
Modifiers
Corona Distance Map
This page provides information on the Corona Distance map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Edge Map
This page provides information on the Corona Edge Map map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Error Messaging
This page provides information about the Corona Error Messaging.
Tools
Corona EXR format (CXR)
This page provides information about Corona EXR format (CXR).
Tools
Corona Fractal
This page provides information on the Corona Fractal.
Objects
Corona Front Back Map
This page provides information on the Corona Front Back map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona FumeFX Modifier
This page provides information on the Corona FumeFX Modifier, its settings, and usage.
Modifiers
Corona Hair Material
This page provides information on the Corona Hair Material.
Materials
Corona Hair Modifier
This page provides information on the Corona Hair Modifier in 3ds Max.
Modifiers
Corona Image Editor
This page provides information on using the Corona Image Editor for 3ds Max.
Tools
Corona Interactive Rendering
This page provides information on Corona Interactive Rendering, its settings, and usage.
Tools
Corona Layered Material
This page provides information about the Corona Layered Material.
Materials
Corona Legacy Material
This page provides information on the Corona Legacy Material.
Materials
Corona Light
This page provides information on the Corona Light, its settings and usage.
Lights
Corona Light Material
This page provides information on the Corona Light Material.
Materials
Corona Lister
This page provides information on the Corona Lister in 3ds Max and how to use it.
Tools
Corona Mapping Randomizer
This page provides information on the Corona Mapping Randomizer Map.
Maps
Corona Material Library
This page provides information on the Corona Material Library.
Tools
Corona Mix Map
This page provides information on the Corona Mix Map map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Multi Map
This page provides information on the Corona Multi Map map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Normal Map
This page provides information on the Corona Normal Map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Outline Material
This page provides information about Corona Outline Material in 3ds Max.
Materials
Corona Pattern Modifier
This page provides information on the Corona Pattern Modifier, its settings, and usage.
Modifiers
Corona Physical Material
This page provides information on the Corona Physical Material, its settings, and usage.
Materials
Corona Power Tools
This page provides information on the Corona Power Tools, their settings, and usage.
Tools
Corona Proxy
This page provides information on the Corona Proxy in 3ds Max.
Objects
Corona Proxy Exporter
This page provides information on using the Corona Proxy Exporter with Corona for 3ds Max.
Tools
Corona Rayswitch Map
This page provides information on the Corona Rayswitch Map.
Maps
Corona Rayswitch Material
This page provides information on the Corona Rayswitch Material.
Materials
Corona Round Edges Map
This page provides information on the Corona Round Edges Map.
Maps
Corona Scanned Material
This page provides information on the Corona Scanned Material.
Materials
Corona Select Map
This page provides information on the Corona Select Map.
Maps
Corona Select Material
This page provides information on the Corona Select Material.
Materials
Corona Shadow Catcher Material
This page provides information on the Corona Shadow Catcher Material, its settings and usage.
Materials
Corona Skin Material
This page provides information on the Corona Skin Material, its settings and usage.
Materials
Corona Sky Map
This article shows how to illuminate a scene with Corona Sky map, its setting and examples of usage.
Maps
Corona Slicer Material
This page provides information on the Corona Converter, its settings, and its usage.
Materials
Corona Sun
This page provides information on the Corona Sun, its settings and examples of usage.
Lights
Corona Tile Map
This page provides information on the Corona Tile map, its settings, and usage.
Maps
Corona Tonemap Control Map
This page provides information on the Corona Tonemap Control Map.
Maps
Corona Toon Material
This page provides information about the Corona Toon Material in 3ds Max.
Materials
Corona Triplanar Map
This page provides information on the Corona Triplanar Map.
Maps
Corona User Property Map
This page provides information about the Corona User Property Map.
Maps
Corona VFB (legacy)
This page provides information on the Corona VFB, its settings, and usage.
Tools
Corona VFB 2.0
This page provides information on the new Corona VFB 2.0, its settings, and usage.
Tools
Corona Volume Grid
This page provides information on the Corona Volume Grid, its settings, and usage examples.
Objects
Corona Volume Material
This page provides information on the Corona Volume Material, its settings and usage.
Materials
Corona Wire Map
This page provides information on the Corona Wire Map.
Maps
Distributed Rendering
This page covers the basics of distributed rendering in Chaos Corona for 3ds Max.
Tools
End User License Agreement
Read the full text of the End User License Agreement at chaos.com/eula.
Installation and Licensing
How to Uninstall Corona
This page provides information on how to uninstall Corona for 3ds Max.
Installation and Licensing
Installation and Licensing
Overview
Installation Process
This page serves as a guide for installing Corona for 3ds Max. If you would like to try Corona for 3ds Max or Cinema 4D, download and run the installer.
Installation and Licensing
License Agreements and Copyrights
The following pages contain detailed licensing information and copyright information related to Chaos Corona. For technical information on the Chaos license, see the Licensing page.
Installation and Licensing
LightMix
This page provides information on the LightMix, its settings and usage.
Tools
Lights
Lights
Maps
Maps
Materials
Materials
MAXScript
Most Chaos Corona settings can be accessed and modified through MAXScript. Make sure Corona is set as the active renderer, then open the MAXScript Listener and run show renderers.current. This will list all Corona-specific render properties and their current values.
Scripting
Modifiers
Modifiers
Multiloaders
This page provides information on a feature called Multiloaders, which you can use to launch 3ds Max with a specific version of Corona, or even multiple instances of 3ds Max at the same time with different Corona versions each. While this is not a common scenario, it may be sometimes useful, for example when setting...
Tools
Objects
Objects
Performance Tab
This page provides information on the Performance Tab of the Render Setup window.
Render Settings
Render Elements
This page provides information on Corona Render Elements and their usage.
Tools
Render Settings
This page provides information on the render settings available after setting Corona as the active renderer.
Overview
Render Stamp Variables
This page provides information on the Render Stamp Variables in Chaos Corona for 3ds Max.
Render Settings
Scene Tab
This page provides information on the Scene Tab of the Render Setup window.
Render Settings
Scripting
Scripting
Supported Features
November 12th, 2025 | Version: Chaos Corona 14 | Plugin: 3ds Max
Installation and Licensing
System Tab
This page provides information on the System Tab of the Render Setup window.
Render Settings
Tone Mapping Operators
This page provides information on the Tone Mapping operators in Corona for 3ds Max, their settings, and usage.
Tools
Tools
Tools