This article provides information on using the Corona Material Library in Cinema 4D.
Overview
Starting with Corona 12 Update 1, the Corona Material Library is no longer included in the installer. It can be installed separately or in offline mode. For more information please check this Help Center article.
Starting from Corona 12, the Corona Material Library is available in Cosmos. Starting from this version, the material library can be skipped during installation to reduce the hard disk space consumed.
The Corona Material Library provides hundreds of ready-to-use materials, each with a high-quality preview. The library is mainly intended for beginner users and those having problems with setting up basic materials, but it may be as well useful to advanced users. The most common uses of the material library include:
- Quickly painting scene objects with realistic materials (this can greatly speed up your workflow!)
- Using the material presets as bases for creating own ones (great for users inexperienced with the material creation and introducing variation in the scene)
- Using the material presets as references for creating new materials from scratch (great if you are having trouble setting up a specific material)
The Corona Material Library for Cinema 4D has been introduced in Corona Renderer 7. Older versions do not include this feature.
Corona Material Library Features
View materials by category
Set and view only favorites
Drag and drop materials into the viewport, material editors
Assign a material directly to the objects selected in the scene
Select all objects in the scene that use a certain material
Many of the materials don’t need UV mapping, as they use the Corona Triplanar Map