Corona Sun & Sky Manager

Corona Sun & Sky Manager — Professional Exterior Lighting for 3ds Max 2026.

Corona Sun & Sky Manager puts every exterior lighting parameter — sun position, sky model, clouds, moon, fog, VFB bloom & glare — into a single, fast Qt panel that talks directly to your Corona Renderer. 28 built-in cinematic presets take you instantly from a clear Himalayan high-altitude noon to a Wolf Moon Winter with a 64× moon disc, a Cyberpunk Smog night, or a physically-accurate Total Solar Eclipse.

Each preset writes every single scene parameter cleanly — no bleed-through from a previous look. Real-world location & live weather. Search any city, click Apply, and the plugin calculates the precise sun and moon angles using the Meeus astronomical ephemeris, then pulls live cloud cover, visibility, and temperature from Open-Meteo to set turbidity and cloud density automatically.

Complete moon system. Control phase, size (1–64×), disc brightness, sky glow halo, and high-resolution surface texture — all written directly to CoronaMoon, fully round-tripped through presets and location data. Studio-ready. Save unlimited custom presets locally, sync them across workstations via a shared network folder, or export/import as JSON for team sharing.

Requires: Autodesk 3ds Max 2026 · Chaos Corona Renderer 14 or later. Big thanks to both companies for inventing such amazing software. My script is mostly Maxscript, and uses the inbuilt Python in Max.