Gentleman,
that was really enlightening. On of the big C4D mysteries is solved. This interactive Tutorial thing is really great – I often was thinking about a problem in the work-flow, and bamm! Nick was asking it – scary! What I would like to know is the thing with netRender and IR Files. Woukd it be better to be pre-rendered on one machine (like Nick suggested over night) or at the final render with all clients at once?

prayas on January 11th, 2010 said...

The IR like any prepass has to be done on one maschine as far as i know. It’s the same with cached data for almost any module ( dynamics for example ) and also with cached data from plugins.

P..:

thx to both of you.

Thanks Nick and Rob for the insight. I did know some of this from the vray trial and error period. But all this helps.
If you are still on R11 there is a small plugin named SmartSave that saves every render from the Live view to a file. Not updated to 11.5 so far it’s a pretty brilliant workflow tool. Can save jpeg and tiff.

http://www.smart-page.net/smartsave/

P..:

here is a video rec of the problem i have with the rotate tool,hope someone can help me, thanks

http://vimeo.com/8665761

eli on January 11th, 2010 said...

That’s really strange. You could try messing around with the x, y, z buttons on top. Click some of them off and see what happens.

Sock Gardener on January 11th, 2010 said...

Check your preferences under ‘Units’ (in R10). You’ve somehow managed to turn on ‘Use HPB System’.
HTH

med on January 11th, 2010 said...

Thank you sock Gradner you’re my hero,yes it’s the Use HPB System, now my rotate toll work like a dream, Big thanks to you & eli for your help Barvooo..!

mommy on January 14th, 2010 said...

Barvooo Gradner!

Ross’s video helped me a lot for a project I’m currently working on for Travel Channel here in DC. I had to build a football stadium for a promo, and (not having a render farm here yet) I had to render the GI pass on a slower computer, and the final pass on a much faster one.

Really looking forward to the lighting rigs!

Just some correction/clarification notes:

that special pass is actually a error/fault check pass, so basically it is checking for any drastic/dramatic changes, if there isn’t then it will render with existing pass only, if there is it will compensate.

If you lock then it uses only the stored cache and can produce really nasty results if you say added an object.

Allrighty some nifty stuff.
To make a few things clear (for me mostly :p);
if I were to make an animation with the auto load on, and I would make some changes in let’s say the texture pattern and it’s color the re-render would take up to 90% less time and still look correct (what about the reflection of color onto it’s enviroment, would that still be valid) ?

And rendering it with a different anti-aliasing or greater resolution would that work ?

Thanks for the info

One thing about autoload is that it can actually make things slower in certain circumstances. I made a scene with 200 bouncing, glowing orbs using using the IR setting. For whatever reason, using auto load cache dramatically slowed render times.

I think it’s because all the primary light was coming from the glowing orbs and their reflections so the GI had to be re-cached every frame. The resulting cached file was over 100MBs. Turning off auto load made things over 400% faster.

this great to have this broken down

trying to get a workable recipe for GI in animations. the default is like 11 prepasses – is there any good wisdom available as to what settings we can tweak to get render times down.

also, is shadow flicker a solved issue?

I watched one of your tutorials and found it amazing,solved some of my puzzles about C4D,thank you again

Man, the 1st thing I did was looking for the alternative + sign when stepping over from 3DsMax. Save incremental saved my life a few times

Studio setup sounds pretty promising.
Maybe you guys can figure out what the guidelines for the ‘preparing’ stage are. Still kinda black box to me. May grab my cam and post a request for it soon.

Thnx .. keep rockin’

Great tutorial guys, but still a bit confused.

So if i’ve got lock on all i can do is change the camera position.

If i’ve got lock off but autoload on, all i can change is the above plus, object and light colours, textures.

If i need to adjust the position of geo, add new geo, adjust light position or intensity then i have to flush the cache or turn off auto load (which would cause the cache to be rewritten anyways).

Is that essentially it?
Great tho speeds things up a treat

And for netrendering?? :S