--- title: "16.0.0" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/CRC4D/1436581926/16.0.0" format: markdown --- *Official Release* **Date** - November 04, 2026 ## **New Features** --- ### **Gaussian splats** - Option to relight Gaussian splats so they receive illumination from the scene. Added a clipping mask for Gaussian Splats, and support for the highly compressed SPZ format for Gaussian splats ### **VFB Background** - In the VFB, set a background image that isn't affected by post-processing (removing the need to use a Tone Map Control) ### **Vantage** - Greatly improved support for a range of Corona materials (see later) ### **Parallax Displacement** - Parallax displacement mapping option in the Corona Physical material, which can take less memory to render than geometry displacement ### **Parallax Interiors** - Using just a flat plane, give the appearance of furnished and lit 3D rooms behind windows using the new Parallax shader - samples available in Cosmos ### **AI assistant** - AI assistant (beta) that offers help with product usage, suggestions for improving the rendering, mood matching based on an image, and scattering ### **Notifications** - Initial implementation of Chaos notifications; see [Notifications Management](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB/pages/1001291828) for how to manage notification settings ### **Compatibility** - Added support for Cinema 4D 2027 ## **Improvements** --- - Improved the CoronaSky atmospheric shader (Volume Effect) significantly, including many bug fixes; scenes from earlier versions load with the Volume Effect in legacy mode to preserve their appearance - Enabled saving CXR files with 16-bit layers, reducing file size (layers that require 32-bit, such as Cryptomatte, are kept as 32-bit) - Extended Render Selection (render mask) with options to render reflections, refractions, and shadows of included objects - Added a Lighting Analysis multipass element - Sped up material preview rendering and updates - Changed Chaos Cosmos assets to re-link automatically when a scene is opened on a machine with a different Cosmos download directory, if the assets already exist there - Enabled curve-based adjustment of scale and density in Chaos Scatter Area include/exclude - Enabled denoising of additional Alpha elements in Multi-Pass to improve compositing - Implemented simple linear motion blur for particles rendered via the Render Particles tag - Improved the conversion of Cinema materials using non-physical properties of Corona Physical material - Improved loading of bitmaps with incorrect file extensions in Corona Bitmap - Integrated Collaboration, AI Enhancer, and Veras into Corona Image Editor (CIE) - Introduced a tool to automatically download missing Cosmos assets in the scene - Introduced a warning when rendering with both ACES OT and an OCIO view transform - Introduced new mapping options for Glints - Registered CXR files with Corona Image Editor on macOS so they can be opened from Finder - Removed legacy VFB 1 - Changed the minimum requirement to Windows 10 ### **Enhanced material previews in viewport** - Added basic metalness and refraction support - Enabled triplanar shader support - Extended support to Legacy material - Implemented normal map support - Improved loading speed of scenes with many textures when the enhanced viewport is enabled - Included enhanced preview of the Mapping Randomizer shader ### **Vantage export/live link** - Enabled export of multiple cameras in live link - Extended Vantage support to handle more MultiMap randomization modes - Enabled support for Corona Slicer material - Implemented support for the Corona Ambient Occlusion shader - Improved export of Roughness to better match between Corona and Vantage - Normal Map support - Metalness and refraction support - Legacy material support - Basic support for Vignette - Enhanced support for Corona Volume Grid - Implemented detection of errors and of Vantage closing while live link is running - Improved progress reporting when exporting a scene to Vantage via live link - Improved support for the Corona Mapping Randomizer shader - Greatly improved the performance of initial export and later updates in live link - Updated live link to work across machines, including from macOS to Windows running Vantage ## **Fixes** --- - Fixes for identified vulnerabilities - A crash could occur when switching scenes shortly after an image with an OCIO view transform was first shown in Corona VFB - A freeze could occur when initializing the view transform in Corona VFB - A freeze could occur when showing the progress dialog for some operations in C4D S22+ - A long freeze could occur when starting IR after a previous license acquisition failed due to a networking error - A sphere light with IES pointed in the wrong direction in Vantage - ACES OT tonemapping operator is now disabled by default in scenes already set to use a view transform. - Bright pixels could appear black with some OCIO view transforms - Camera resolution override now also works with the render queue. - Chaos Cosmos had issues on hi-DPI monitors on macOS - Closing CIE before denoising finished (or performing another action, such as opening another CXR or pressing erase) caused a crash - Command-line CIE occasionally mixed different images together when processing multiple images - Corona Bitmap enhanced preview wasn't handled correctly in Cinema 4D 2023 and older - Corona Bitmap sometimes didn't work correctly in the enhanced viewport preview - Enabling enhanced material previews with the FrontBack shader used in bump caused a crash - Enhanced material viewport previews crashed when using multiple viewports - Enhanced viewport material previews didn't work correctly in Cinema 4D 2025.3.3 - Enhanced viewport previews crashed with shadows enabled - Default texture size is now taken from C4D preferences when using enhanced viewport previews. - Corona UI had issues on HiDPI monitors when some newer versions of Redshift were installed - Custom level is no longer reset in materials when a texture is linked. - CXR file association broke when installing Corona Image Editor - Error handling was improved when parts of the sky model data are missing (for example, due to a corrupted or incomplete installation). - Half-open slicer intervals caused environment fireflies; they're now clamped to the bounding box. - Loading scenes with Scatter that linked unexpected objects or tags caused a crash - NaNs appeared in some scenes with bump - NaNs in roughness/anisotropy textures crashed the physical material - New Corona Camera now uses the same default focal distance as C4D. - OIDN denoised other passes less than the beauty pass - Opening the Veras/Collaboration dialog caused random crashes; the dialog's content no longer has to be reloaded when the dialog is closed and reopened. - Performance was reduced when using physical camera size and clipping - Rare random crashes occurred when initializing a new render - Render is now saved only when rendering finishes (that is, isn't canceled). - Roughness set to zero caused issues with Light Override material - Saving all render elements in Corona Image Editor now stops after the first error, to avoid flooding the user with errors. - Scatter didn't update correctly when a model's visibility changed - Some Corona preferences (auto save, VFB title) were ignored for Team Render - Some DPI scaling issues occurred in Corona Image Editor and Standalone on multiple monitors with different DPI settings - Some scenes with Chaos Scatter crashed when opened - Subshaders (Front back, Normal, and Triplanar shaders) occasionally didn't work in the enhanced viewport - Textures were blurred in the viewport preview when using a layered shader - The alpha source in Corona Bitmap is no longer ignored - The cluster offset transform scaled incorrectly with cluster size - Crashes in the Corona color picker - The Corona node material editor could crash under specific circumstances - The denoising checkbox in the Corona VFB wasn't correctly enabled or disabled when denoising settings changed between renders - The macOS installer unnecessarily ran under Rosetta - The Regions tool no longer discards regions smaller than 20x20 pixels - The VFB pick tool froze in scenes with a standalone Sun placed in a hierarchy - Thin translucent objects (like curtains) showed splotches when seen in reflections - Thumbnails of objects with Corona materials appeared incorrectly in the Asset Browser - Undo in Chaos Scatter Area include/exclude reverted multiple actions - Using the VFB pick tool on an object with a normal map after a render finished no longer causes a crash - Vantage export didn't work correctly for scenes containing an object with very large geometry - VFB size is now correctly adjusted when opened from Picture Viewer ### **Live Link Fixes** - Opacity rendered incorrectly in Vantage when a bitmap used Image Alpha as Mono channel output - Light intensity didn't apply in Vantage to lights that used IES ## **Known Limitations** --- - Notifications are currently not supported on Intel-based Macs. - Parallax displacement is automatically switched off and regular displacement is used instead with layered materials or decals, because parallax displacement behaves unpredictably with them.