The guys at Nvidia promised that there will be a Blender version that they are working on right now without announcing a set release date. Just to be clear it is now available for many 3d software such as 3ds Max, Maya, Substance Painter, Unreal engine… Like the Corona guys, they also seem to have pretty approachable and accessible developers on their forums - which is always a big plus for me personally when I'm thinking of investing in a product.This is a new render engine that Nvidia is working on right now and it is very promising.

They've come a long way in just two short versions, really expanding the versatility of the current version (2.9) and I believe they even have a version for ArchiCAD 24 available as well. Fortunately I still get to use it with Enscape) (*point of note : I specifically got a new computer with this GPU in anticipation of using it with Twinmotion that was supposed to have Raytracing, but which sadly never panned out (so far). If you're into GPU renderers with an interest in raytracing then I would suggest Enscape renderer, which has one of the best ArchiCAD UI integrations out there and really good performance on any NVIDIA 2070 series (and above) graphics cards, Particularly the RTX versions (which I have in my rig as a 2080 RTX).

Maybe we can hold out hope that if (when?) things go back to normal, they could resurrect the project again (?) Yes, they were struggling a bit to find qualified coders and programmers to work on the project, but the guy they had working on it had to be shifted to working on the main plugins (3ds Max and C4D) as a result of that scale back and since he was the only one, the ArchiCAD plugin sadly had to be cancelled - even though it had gone really far for an Alpha version with all the features it had already, and being production-ready in many respects. For a little time Chaos Group provided Corona Render (Alpha Version) for ARCHICAD, but unfortunately they stopped the development because they didn't find enough developer to go on.That was really great!Īctually, in a little bit of rather unfortunate (brand-name) irony, it probably had more to do with the Coronavirus' early impact and the lockdowns causing a lot of companies to scale back their staffing and projects to deal with the economic hit that small companies everywhere were dealing with.

Vray 3 for blender