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rendertime 30 minutes - S.L. 11

Cinema 4D + maxwell RC2 (Model from 3d02.com)

Is there a smoothing issue on that model?

Looking nice,
preview or render?

BEM

yep.- i was too lazy to export the model as dxf again to solve that problem (i guess it is to be solved that way as cinema - maxwell cia *.obj doesnt work)..

sorry..


edit: @BEM: regular mxcl-render,.

u.biq wrote:I don't know for you guys but there are few renders here with the RC that give me a feeling of, let say, "real" photographic feeling, it's a bit hard to explain : i don't mean as realistic as we had with the Beta, 'cause obviously we don't have enoug bounces, but...don't know...an overall mood

I had that exact same feeling. Especially after looking at an image by Zoppo.

Wohoo, this is the type of render I hope for my car some day, I would really much want to know all about the setup and light And the material is pretty damn good tooooo. Great job

wow, that's nice

Great scene, only the RC render quality ... .

maxwell rc + photoshop. 3 hours rendertime

the first one is edited with photoshop, the second one is the raw rendering out of maxwell

those look rather nice

Your photoshop postwork is a nice inspiration. Thank you.

no fairy dust.. never had smth. like that in my test renderings.. maybe because i have deactivated caustics.. btw. are we able do de- or activate caustics?.. i guess no caustics is default.. so no fairy dust..

but.. maybe its just my opterons

well first> justgreat great great rc render, probably the BEST rc render ive seen (although all other rc renders look like they are out of the 90's)
this si Definatly the way RC should render, so really great job on your setup and scene, and again, this is inspirational, great work whole heartedly the rc engine, im a big fan of car renders and tis one kicks butt..
-i lke what you did with the ps'd image to adding inthe lights great touch!-

eldo wrote:no fairy dust.. never had smth. like that in my test renderings.. maybe because i have deactivated caustics.. btw. are we able do de- or activate caustics?.. i guess no caustics is default.. so no fairy dust..

but.. maybe its just my opterons

I'm not getting any different results when i turn off caustics under my "engine" tab in maya , but I know you are rendering from the c4d plugin, that is way more developed than the maya plugin.

I know for me, there is a section both for preview Tab and Engine tab that is called render layers, and in there you check on/off direct and indirect caustics, but right now there is absolutely no difference wheter they are on or off, the image still renders with the firefly's and caustics look like they are enabled even tough i check off cuastics

can you check in c4d if you have control in any section of c4d that sayhs layers: direct/.indirect illum, direect/indiret reflectoins, and direct/indirect caustics (they are all on in the "engine"tab in maya by default) (in the "preview" tab they are all off exept direct/indirect ilumination)

right now im thinking you have no firefly's for either two reasons:
A) like you sid your operons, blazing fast and eliminating the firefly's b4 they show up
b)the c4d plugin is one of the more developed pluginins our right now c4d dec07 vs maya dec05) and maybe theres something that fixes the firefly's in the new plugs.... Anyone have firefly's in the 3dsMax dec10 plugin?
(i dont know why the plugins would make a difference, since they all get rendered throuhg the same rc3 render engine)

--anyfeedback to your c4d settigns would be appreciated..

--AND BTW, Anyone know where in STUDIOMX to turn off/on caustics ?
i looked and looked and in studio MX i cannot find this option anywhere..
and no matter wheter preview or rc3 engine renders through in studio mx i get firefly's

hi.. im not rendering via cinema4d-plug at all.. i export all the geometry as obj and import it in MXStudio.. no materials applies.. raw geometry.


ah.. and one thing to add: the image was rendered on my P4 3,0Ghz.. I totally forgot that..

thanks for your comments on this..

eldo wrote:hi.. im not rendering via cinema4d-plug at all.. i export all the geometry as obj and import it in MXStudio.. no materials applies.. raw geometry.

ok great thanks for the answer to the plugin question.

So how/where did you turn off caustics from in MXstudio?