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really nice work so far. I like how the material look, it is the right amount of SSS and it feels touchable. Keep it up

this is just awesome and will change the whole production in Film making. I just ask me in what kind on resolution you have to render out the CGI content? An open sea for example. IMAX resolution or bigger? 16K,32K,64k or even bigger?

Wow, Vue still exists? I used Vue 4 long times ago. And I also used the integration plugin to use it with Cinema 4D. I remember that it was never a stable workflow, and I stopped using Vue. I also didn't follow the development of Vue anymore. It works now? Is it worth giving Vue another look?

Well well, Unreal.. I remember the time when Unreal 4 was released. new GI and lightsystem, more realism in realtime and so on. Now the same thing for Unreal 5. Unreal 5 looks very stunning, but just think that all the presentation Scenes are optimized for presentation, meaning everything works perfect and looks great. The reality in daily work looks different: Lots of crash, lots of textures that are not working , the framerate is way not stabile and so on. But the most important point is even the new Unreal 5 light, GI and render system don't comes close to the offline renderings quality. On the other hand a VR scene for the Client needs a stabile framerate, so you have to drop / optimized the texture resolution, mesh resolution to keep a stabile framerate. Unreal 5 should handle HD textures and the Polycount is not limited enymore. But even than you can't send the Client a 100GB file 🙂 . So optimation will allways be needed, and that trops the quality. Unreal 5 looks very promising and we will see how it works in daily professional work.

Well, this discussions are all over the place and on all different Software forums every time when a new release comes out. here is my point. Three years ago I was on the same part that MAXON and Cinema 4D loose the track to the Industry. I heard a lot from Peoples " aa Cinema 4D, yes it is a Mograph Software. And yes a lot of industry standards and tools was not in Cinema 4D for a long time. So I switched to 3DSMax, also because I need it for work at the office. Specially for Architectue Visualisation 3DSMax is the standard with the most tools and Assets focused for Archviz. 3DSmax is great on that but there is so much pain and stress every day working with 3DSMax. short: Now three years later I canceled 3DSMax at home and switched back to Cinema 4D. And it was a coming Home. Today the best thing of the day is turn off 3DSMax at work and start Cinema 4D at home. What a great feeling to work with Cineme 4D. About the Update to R24. for me it is a great update and I feel that MAXON has found the way and focus back into the whole industry not only focused on Motion graphigs. So thanks to MAXON for this Update and keep up the track.

ACES support out from a 3D Renderer is via OCIO. ACES System is in NUKE ( fully supported) , Davinci and other post programs supported

rec709 was the most used output for TV. the output for PC screen is still sRGB. but you can output (render out) as rec709 and in the post make the color grading in rec709 and than use gamut back to sRGB for PC or stay in reg709 or reg2020 for TV. so in you case the input is sRGB and the output is rec709. in Postproduction the input is rec709 and the output whatever is needed for.

actualy it is simple, ACES is just the System. a kind of an universal converter. So you can bring every color space from every camera into that system and the color grading is the same dosn't matter what input you bring in. ACES the System is only in Postproduction. Renderings is ACEScg or ACEScc. So it is a great system for 3D and VFX stuff. In the Filmproduction you film with different Cameras and the output is HD, SHD or UHD so the Color space of that cameras is very big . So ACES is not a must go in the Movie production. for CG it is a game changer for sure.

well ACES is a great Color system. ACES is just the system. the colorspace is ACEScg, ACEScc, RAC709 and so on. The only two renders that support ACEScg are Arnold and Octane. Redshift work on a full OCIO ACES integration. There is a work around in Cinema 4D and Redshift to output ACES (sRGB) ACES (reg709) yet but you need a convert node between the color and the material input.

I saw the message that the name of the Forum will change. Why? I like C4D Cafe. It shows the root of the community here and it is the name that most knows and can identified with.. So why changing the name?

Congrats, Igor, and thanks to Hrvoje to keep the c4dcafe up and running

We work at Raumgleiter 100% with 3DSMax. currently we work with 3DSMax 2020 and we will update to 2021 in the summer break, during the small downtime of client work. I must say that the stability has improved a lot and getting better slowly. They are the typical Max bugs yes. Sometime MAX just get closed without any error. On a Network or via remote 3DSMax can become a bit laggy. 3DSMax 2021 has more improvement.

Well, I will not open a C4D to Max competition here :). For me the stacking of modifires, effectors and modeling steps are a big plus. but yes if you remove all the plugins from MAX, that is another story. But something was in the last years different, specifically in Architecture Visualisation. The output from 3DSMax looked better than the output from Cinema 4D. I don't know what it was. It's the way how 3DSMax and the render engines handels materials, shaders and light. they was a differents compare to Cinema 4D. Now this days Corona Render for C4D is identical with Corona for MAX. This was not the case some time ago. I talk about Archviz. Even today if you compare Cinema 4D outputs and MAX outputs, they are different. and as I sad I don't know what it is. But here is the main point. Cinema 4D is a allround 3D Software. you can do everything with Cinema 4D. 3DSMax is limitet in some parts ( Motion Graphics) but it is speziallzed in Architecture Visualisation, Film and Games. So Max is more focused on parts of the industry and can improve that tools that are needed for this parts. Btw: I switched from 3DSMax back to Cinema 4D at home 🙂

Well a great one is Digital Production. It is the biggest German Magazine that covers the whole industry. I would say that every german speking Artist know that. https://www.digitalproduction.com/

Well 3DSMax may be not so stable and in some parts not as good as Cinema 4D. But here is where 3DSMax shines. I work since 3 years with 3DSmax in Architecture Visualisation. And that is where 3DSMax is golden. 3DSMax is the industry standard for Architectual Visualisations. Every professional Studio in that market works with MAX. And there are also some great Plugins for 3DSMax. the best one are Itoo Forrest Pack, The best tool for natural environment and Itoo Railclone The Output that can be realized with 3DSMax and Corona Render are just on the top. If you like to work in Architecture Visualisation you have to know 3DSmax

yes, that is true. the workflow now with that conversion node is a mmmm ok solution but not right. I'm sure that it will be integrated into Cinema 4D.

Node setup Cinema 4D and Redshift for ACEScg render output. The Node sRGBtoACEScg is between the sRGB Texture and the material input.

ACES is a new inbetween standard. ACES is just the System. Try to not mix things together. There is ACES the System and ACEScg or ACEScc and ACEScct. Inside that System. What for 3D Artists is important to know in the system ACES is ACEScg. ACES cg is very similar to Rec709. In Cinema 4D and Redshift you can use OCIO and a Node that converts the sRGB Diffuse texture to the ACEScg colorspace. Its more an work arround but it works. Now starts the System. So you export an open EXR rendered out with OCIO profile and inport it into your comp software. Now the input is ACEScg and that goes into ACES the System where the colorgrading happen. After that goes to Rec709 or what ever Outputformat you need.

the first episode of season 3 was great. Also the new Homepage looks very clean and has a bunch of tutorials.

when you restart Cinema 4D a window will pop out that ask you to send the crash report. On the other hand maybe try to update the GFX Driver

Hello Artists ACES here ACES there..... Not every Software and Renderer supports ACES and ACEScg yet but I think it will change the Rendering, colorgrading and post workflow. This is a great side to see and learn what colorgrading and ACES is. https://chrisbrejon.com/cg-cinematography/ What are your experience with ACES and ACEScg? Do you start using it? What you think about? best Salvatore

Hi and welcome. if the crash is from C4D try to send a crash report to MAXON. But it is not usual that the XPresso tag couse a crash and needs to restart the whole system. There must be another issue on your PC. Hope that helps

Hi, I think this could be something for Set Driver / Set Driven function. Add a Light and Align to Spline. set the Position as Set Driver and the Light Colortemp to set driver. It works on a 90 degree Arc. Maybe you have to combine two range Mapper for the 180 degree Arc. But this is how I would try it.

Good old times. My first contact with 3D was 1998. First Bryce 2. Cinema 4D since release 8. I also joined the C4DCafe in the 3DKiwi times. Now I'm 42 and I stopped to count, 42 is the answer to everything so I will stay 42 😄

Hi, my name is Salvatore Coco. I was a member of C4DCafe from the beggining (3DKiwi Days) I lost the focus to the Forum for a very very long time. I tryed to join last year and something didn't work. I try it today again and o it works. I'm happy to be back in the C4DCafe. Some words about me. Since 3 years I work as a Senior 3D Artist at Raumgleiter in Switzerland. In the Office we work with 3DSMax. I also used Max for some time at home and lost the focus a bit from Cinema 4D. But now I'm back to Cinema 4D again at home. Today I use Cinema 4D and Redshift as bundle and it is great to come back to Cinema 4D. It was like a coming home. I'm looking forward to be again a part of the C4DCafe Best Salvatore