Render Legion has revealed a release candidate that is now available to users.

Render Legion has revealed a release candidate of Corona 1.7 for 3DS Max that is now available to test for current license owners.

New features:

• Up to 8 times faster rendering, thanks to the combination of many speedups including several borrowed from V-Ray in the recent partnership.
• Reduced memory usage, particularly with render elements.
• Corona MatLib, a collection of over 300 ready to use materials
• Dedicated hair shader, plus compatibility with 3DS Max’s native Hair and Fur, Ornatrix and Hair Farm tools.
• Dedicated skin shader.
• CoronaMtl now has a new SSS mode, and dispersion
• Dedicated Corona Camera
• UVW Randomizer
• Bump Converter so that any map can be used as a bump map
• UI improvements for HiDPI monitors

Please not that your scenes saved with 1.7 are not compatible with 1.6. Find more details on the Corona Forum.