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[C4D] Daily Builds / Re: sky with clouds thread

« on: 2022-09-06, 15:00:29 »

Can I piggyback in this thread with another question about the new cloud system? Do you think at any point there would be an option to have no horizon/ground in the sky? I notice there's a setting in the PRG Clear Sky tab to adjust the altitude that the clouds are drawn from the perspective of and if pushed far enough it looks as though there would be the possibility of rendering an above cloud view, if not for having the ground/horizon cover it up. Do you think at some point it would be possible to render an above cloud view using this tool?

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[C4D] Feature Requests / Automatically disable C4D's Material Override when switching engines

« on: 2020-10-23, 21:18:51 »

There are times when I need a previously unforeseen buffer pass really fast and re-rendering the whole scene is unfeasible, so I will often switch to C4D's Standard render and use material override to make everything solid black except for objects with a white luminance material applied. This renders buffers out in a few seconds instead of minutes or hours which saves a ton of time when I'm up against a deadline. The problem is if the standard material override is still enabled when I switch back to Corona, Corona will render using those override materials instead of the scene materials. Further compounding this problem is that when you switch back to Corona the standard material override setting disappears from the render settings, so material override is still in effect but there's no visible indicator to signify that material override is on. If I catch this right after I render a buffer pass, I can usually realize quickly that is what's going on, but there have been several times where I forget about it and then pull my hair out trying to figure out why the scene isn't rendering properly. It would be great if some sort of check was implemented where when Corona is the active renderer it checks to be sure the standard version of that switch is disabled. Alternatively, it would be nice if the standard material override switch and the Corona material override switch were linked so that if one was enabled/disabled, the other would be as well. This would at least give a visible indicator in Corona that material override is still active. Thanks for considering!

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[C4D] Daily Builds / Re: Behind the scenes update, April 22nd 2020

« on: 2020-04-22, 16:35:06 »

Great update. Thanks for taking the time to spell all of that out. I think most people are used to waiting being part of the process when it comes to software development but knowing what you're after and what challenges you are facing along the way helps. Sounds like it'll be worth the wait!