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[C4D] General Discussion / Should I use Team Render... or not?

« on: 2024-05-25, 10:47:07 »

HI Forum,

I got a new custom workstation last week (AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16core, 96GB RAM, RTX 4080Super). I had a AERO17 laptop (Intel Core 9 10th gen, 64GB Ram, RTX 2080Super). The render time difference is insane! 40min v 2.2mins... so not complaining btw. I have my AERO17 connected to my highspeed local and wonder if there is any point using it as a render node? Do any one out there do this? Is it possible to get better render speeds? Tried a test scene and takes 6mins so guessing not or is there a issue I can fix?

Thanks and have a good weekend :-)

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Hardware / Getting a new PC Desktop, need some processor advice...

« on: 2024-01-22, 19:10:31 »

Hi Forum,

Getting a new desktop PC built soon and have a question on either Intel or AMD? My friend at Armari has suggested AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 4.5-5.7GHz 16 Core UNLOCKED Processor, but my Laptop is a Intel core 9 10th Gen. I have read some people are having problems with Corona / AMD. Should I switch or stay with Intel? Would love to get some user/Corona Team advice before a I commit, Thanks, John :-)

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[C4D] I need help! / How to get coloured neon tubes?????!!!!

« on: 2024-01-04, 20:04:21 »

Hi Support,

I need to create a simple row of neon tube lights going from cyan/light blue to white. When I crank up the light all tubes go white which I suppose in real life would happen but I need to visualise them coloured. They emit the light correctly but need the tubes to be coloured, is there a easy way to achieve this or do I have to do it post in Photoshop? Many thanks for any ideas :-) 

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[C4D] I need help! / Converting Octane to Corona Materials...

« on: 2023-12-28, 11:01:56 »

Hi Forum!

Hope you had a great Xmas All. Got a project I'm jumping onto and unfortunately it is all done in Octane. It is a fairly big exhibition space and has tons of materials. I do not have Octane and wonder if there is any way of converting it to Corona materials? The scary thing is I can't even see the structure of the materials, at least with RS you can open them to see what is going on so easier to convert manually. I have a dreaded feeling I will have to do this manually which will take a day or 2... any suggestions? Many thanks, John :-)

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[C4D] I need help! / Having trouble installing Corona 11 with R2024.2...

« on: 2023-12-13, 00:31:04 »

Hi Support,

I had to downgrade to 10.2 to get a job rendered on RanchComputing. Now when I install, it won't install the material library. Any Ideal? I'm on Windows 11 Pro and currently trying to install the latest 11 stable version of Corona. Thanks, John

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[C4D] I need help! / How to colour a RGB decal?!...

« on: 2023-12-05, 10:20:34 »

Hi Support!

Got a question, I purchased 2 libraries of graffiti decals. A lot of them are 3 colour RGB. I believe there is a way to assign colours to the different RGB channels so I get my own coloured graffiti decals but I have no idea how this is done. Any advise would be fab, thank you :-)

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[C4D] I need help! / Can I export a model with textures to FBX?...

« on: 2023-11-14, 10:17:38 »

Hi Forum,

Just finished a simple cap with a logo on the front, this is all geometry, not a decal. I have textured up the cap with simple colours and displacements. The client wants to use this in a program called Sparks AR and they need it exported as FBX or DAE. Is this possible, never had to export before so would need some Jedi help please :-)

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[C4D] I need help! / NVIDIA Missing DLL

« on: 2023-11-06, 18:59:28 »

Hi Support,

Since upgrading to the latest 11 version, I'm getting this error (sure a lot of people are). I have a Gforce RTX2080 Studio card in my laptop with 64GB ram & Windows 11 Pro. All Nvidia drivers are up-to-date. How do I make this annoying message go away every time I use IR rendering? Looked at the link but still a bit baffled, thanks, John :-)

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[C4D] I need help! / Slow layered materials with Siger & 3DTools Materials...

« on: 2023-06-22, 19:51:04 »

Hi Forum & Team Corona,

Good work on release 10 :-)... I have a question regarding purchased material packs (Siger & 3D Tools). The carpaint materials in Siger take some time to update once imported into the scene before it is actually finished previewing in the material tab. 3D Tools layered materials, which are fantastic btw, good work Stefan L btw, take almost 5mins to bring in. I saw on your promo video 3D Max will have a faster material workflow. Will this come to C4D? Is there a way to speed this up in C4D? If I have a tight deadline, I can't be held back by slow materials loading and making everything sluggish. Please let me know if there is some kinda workflow config I could do :-) John

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[C4D] Feature Requests / Easier way to create visible lights...

« on: 2023-03-08, 11:27:40 »

Hi Team Corona!

Just curious, at the moment if i want to have visible light cones on stage lights I have to create a cone and add volumetrics. Will there be a Corona light that does this automatically and renders faster in the future? Would be amazing if possible :-)

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General CG Discussion / The Great Summit - Texture Manager 2 out now!

« on: 2023-03-03, 21:07:59 »

Hi Forum,

Happy Friday! Thought I'd post here about TGS brilliant Texture Manager 2, a totally amazing texture manager for all your PBR materials. It creates all the channels (diffusion, normal, displacement, etc) in one simple click. I have the whole CGAxis library and to create a lib manually would take month! Takes a bit of time to render the previews but very good as a central hub for all your textures. Well worth 49 euros! For Corona I did find you have to remove the reflection search strings to get the right previews.

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[C4D] Feature Requests / Wire Shader to have more options like toon for drawing plans

« on: 2023-01-20, 20:02:49 »

Hi Team Corona,

Hope you have had a good week all :-). I'm working on a big architectural job and wanted to create some initial b/w floor plan sketches/drawings. I love the wire shader but would love to be able to use something similar to toon render creating brush/pencil drawings. I tried using the toon C4D with native but soooooooooooooooooooooo slow it hurts. Would love to have something similar with Corona. Have a good weekend all :-) John

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[C4D] I need help! / Double Sided Decal

« on: 2022-09-29, 16:48:33 »

Hi Forum!

I have a scene with a frosted glass panel with a logo decal on the front. Is there a simple way to make the back white or coloured? When you view the panel from the back you see the logo in reverse wich i dont want. See attached at the top. Many Thanks :-) John

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[C4D] I need help! / How the hell do I use the Pattern?!

« on: 2022-09-15, 23:36:26 »

Hi Forum,

Having a go at the Pattern but can not work it out!? I am tired so this does not help but will there be a C4D tutorial soon? Thanks :-) John

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[C4D] I need help! / No licence available!? WTF!!!!

« on: 2022-08-15, 12:01:46 »

Hi Corona, just opened my PC to start work and can't activate my licence. Logged into my Chaos licence server and no licence is available, just paid for my monthly! Need to start work ASAP so need this sorted quick time please.