CentiLeo 0.660 for Cinema 4D and 3ds Max

Extra Settings

Light option non-blocking other lighting. This option is available for regular CentiLeo light source and emission material and it's useful to setup lighting geometry that don't occlude the lightin from other lighting sources. This option is useful for architectural design to setup the images behind the windows and back panels that don't affect the lighting.  

Option for render iteration size (16, 64 or 256 samples per pixel for single iteration). In the past each render iteration performed 64 path tracing samples per pixel for any single iteration. Now we can optionally fire 16, 64 or 256 path tracing samples for single iteration. More samples per iteration produces hight sampling bandwidth in the long run (sometimes 5-10% faster), but in case you need a draft quick animation then 16 samples per iteration is a way to go.

Shader Nodes

Pattern shader: extra filling gradient types (linear, circular, diagonal, box and other patterns are added)

Bitmap and UVWTransform shaders: extra tilling options (tiling, mirror, clamp, no tile, repeat for each mapping channel)

Falloff shader: extra direction option

Post production Denoiser 

Denoiser is a GPU based process (using OptiX GPU) and works as a post effect without need for re-rendering, you can change the strength of denoising from 0 to 1 anytime during rendering. It supports any large image resolution. The setting can be found in render settings. Optionally the user can add "extra passes" such as albedo and normal pass to guide denoiser for better quality if needed.

Material Converter

So far we have implemented material converter only for 3ds Max plugin. Basically we transform quite lot of other materials, textures and light sources to CentiLeo but still ignore displacement mapping, environment HDRI mapping, sheen material settings, complex 3-way IOR and volume media (except of FOG settings). The supported list of shaders is below.

3ds Max	Corona	Fstorm
Standard Material  Physical Material  Composite Material  Double Sided Material   Blend Material  Multi Sub-Obj Material	Legacy Material  Physical Material   Light Material  Layer Material  Skin Material	Fstorm Material  Fstorm Mix Material   Fstorm Portal
Bitmap  Color Correct  Falloff  Composite  Cellular  Checker  Gradient  Gradient Ramp  Mix  Noise  Output  Vertex Color	Bitmap  Color  Color Correct  Bump Converter  Normal  Mix  MultiMap  Front Back  Triplanar   Wire	Bitmap  Color  Color Correct  Falloff  Front Back  Gradient  Mix   MultiMap  Noise   Output  Vertex Color
	Corona Light  Corona Sun	Fstorm Light  Fstorm Sun

渲染器翻译成中文 Chinese user interface (also for node materials) in Cinema 4D 

Thanks to dear Chinese users we now have Chinese language support for Cinema 4D plugin

Bugfixes

However the most time was spent to fix the bugs and make the system more stable:

Fix many sources for render crashes

Fix light visibility multipliers for reflect/refract

Fix Emission material bug when applied to polygon selection

Fix Environment mapping channels

Fix X-Particles / Cinema4D support

Fix TyFlow / 3dsMax support

Fix Motion blur bug

Fix texture bitmap artifacts

Slightly less render noise for many light sources