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Some thoughts that I have after my yearly Cinema 4D subscription was over 11 days ago. When I have some free time from 3D works I get Maxon One 14-day trial subscription to check it. And I was very positive surprised ! I used Redshift 4-5 years ago when it was at early stage and went to Octane. But I see that after years they did insane work to make it one of the best renderer which I used and tested. I get some of my raw scenes included product viz, interior and exterior with insane amount of plants with simple materials but included the same bump, normal and displacement maps. After tests I can say that Redshift have the same quality in the terms of light distribution and shadowing detail that unbiased Octane. It is little noisy in dark areas by default but it can be easy improved by changing settings. Octane is much faster to create the same image quality without noise using small scene like product visualization but Redshift is 2-4 times faster if scene is growing especially using many of vegetation with alpha masks. Octane is dying here compared to RS. I know how to speeds up Octane very well but Redshift as biased renderer has many settings to avoid it without loosing quality. Redshift is very well integrated with Cinema 4D. Octane has ( or had because month of absence ) great C4D developer like Ahmet who did great improvements but RS has no problem with using the new scene nodes like distribution which works as multi-instances. I think that RS material nodes are much easier to use and I can get better results within less time than in Octane. For example in Octane everybody use gradient node to manipulate images - in RS Ramp node is way better constructed without the way to manipulate gradient because it has included ranges, exposure and even noise. Many of nodes here are very well thought out even if Octane has it much more. Additional nodes reserved only for One users are great too like Ivy generator but it is like joke that they are priced... Anyway I'm going to stay with Maxon and going to Redshift from Octane. Many materials to rebuild from scratch. I don't have free time like year to learn Blender 😝

yea i do agree that other software has a bunch of lousy complainers as well. I'm no evangelist for any software, particularly houdini which I think has many major flaws... I am happy with the work that c4d devs are rolling out, especially the multithreading/parallelism work thats being done. generally maxon so far with what theyve released is in the right direction development wise... my main criticism is just price hikes which are more of a corporate decision... regardless, I am in no position to switch to other software because I dont think they're any better. c4d is still my go to program and preferred workflow.