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[C4D] General Discussion / Randomizer distorts textures when the material tag is set to cubic

« on: Today at 12:07:32 »

I noticed that the material radomizer with Cosmos materials can cause problems when I set the material tag to cubic to edit the size of textures.
Is this avoidable in any way or do I need to edit the Cosmos materials for each setting where the randomiser is set.

See attachments.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Corona/C4D versus Twinmotion render test

« on: Today at 00:47:14 »

Hi Stefan,
I know you must have some more experience with TM and CR. I am interested to know your opinion.

I was surprised that TM is already this good. TM rendered in 20 to 30 sec. CR took 10 min. TM does very well with vegatation as I see here at the office. Wonder indeed how well it does with more complex interior scenes. TM exterior scenes are basically as good as it gets even compared with CR as long as you don't need displacement.
Anyhow, TM does seem to solve path tracing rather better than expected even though this scene had only a few colours and transparent plastic materials.

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Gallery / Re: "Light Walls House" study | Scene availble on Chaos Campus soon

« on: Yesterday at 20:27:26 »

Thanks Teo,
hope the plugin work out. Anyhow, fbx would be great too.

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Gallery / Re: "Light Walls House" study | Scene availble on Chaos Campus soon

« on: 2025-01-11, 13:16:28 »

Thanks a lot for sharing these great  images and model.
I am a Cinema4D user and hope to see the FBX as well. I think there is a plugin for Max to export to C4D. https://payhip.com/b/hW0UB
I don't have Max though (Mac user).

Cheers Francois

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Gallery / Re: Laurel.

« on: 2025-01-09, 23:05:13 »

Great work. Inspiring as well.
Any chance you would have this model for sale ? I would love to use the furniture in my projects. I can get millions of furniture assets everywhere but very little of this design & quality. A shame really. Most available assets don't do justice to Corona.

Thanks for sharing these images.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Corona/C4D versus Twinmotion render test

« on: 2025-01-08, 11:24:59 »

Tested Coronarender (C4D) versus Twinmotion at the same resolution, same free fbx model from Dimensiva.
I also did a test with the same model in a room with HDRI Cosmos studio lighting.
I did not add the texts in the Coronarender. Was just interested to see if TwinMotion is relatively comparable these days. I think it is. This render did not contain any displacement, the lighting and materials are rather simple. The Coronarender materials where from the plastic presets adjusted for color and transparency.

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Gallery / 2025 rendered on a MacBook Air M1 from 2020

« on: 2024-12-22, 18:45:12 »

Did a little 2025 project on my m1 MacBook Air M1 from 2020. 16Gb.
Tried to do something similar with Redshift but Redshift seemed unresponsive most of the time so I gave up.

All modeled in C4D with only Cosmos assets, no postprocessing just straight from CR.

I am surprised to see CR not crashing once,  with IR on most of the time and at final renders even though it swapped about 2Gb memory. Rendering on a MacBook Air M1 without a ventilator hardly getting warm.

A huge advantage of C4D/Coronarender is being able to do work like this on a cheap lightweight laptop still for sale well under a 800€ or new for a few hundred euro more. The file has decals, C4D/2025 booleans, lots of Corona-scatters and proxies for the trees and displacement for the landscape and concrete and is rendered at 3600x3600.

Cheers Francois
francoisverhoeven.com

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Gallery / Re: ONE HOUSE COLLECTION

« on: 2024-12-22, 18:30:53 »

Great images, beautiful.

I would love to use these models in my projects. Any chance these models are available as fax or C4D/CR format ?
Cheers Francois
francoisverhoeven.com

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Chaos Academy

« on: 2024-12-21, 23:53:13 »

Corona is indeed fast in everything but the actual final render. In my case that works better and faster than the other way around.
Redshift is a little underdeveloped for Archviz.
The new Mac are also getting seriously fast. So the render speed is for still images not really an issue as much as it used to be years back.

But the costs for Vectorworks, C4D and CR are getting a bit much. Especially when I get older with less clients or in between jobs I don't want to end up with all my skills lost or keep paying thousands of euros each year.  I have to come up with a solution for that, maybe unreal, blender, twinmotion. Twinmotion does really wel these days, try this with C4D/CR if you can :   https://www.instagram.com/p/DDw011LOELv/

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Chaos Academy

« on: 2024-12-20, 15:21:06 »

I indeed hope not being a C4D user.

But the survey does align with my own experience here in The Netherlands with architecture studios.
And there are over a 1000 votes in this survey of which a majority is from 3ds  users.

I see a growing userbase for Twinmotion and D5, apps that are cheaper and easier to use but render fantastic results in their own specific way as well.

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[C4D] Bug Reporting / Force quit C4D after render

« on: 2024-12-20, 11:32:56 »

OSX 15.1.1
C4D 25.1.0
CR 13 dec 2024
Mac Studio m1 128Gb.

C4D won't quit after render. The app closes but remains active in the background as not responding. I need to force quit C4D to completely shut it down. Not a real problem but still.

CR13 dec. 2024 seems to work well  so far. Been doing work with it for a few days with Maxtree and Graswald libraries, Corona scatter and C4D's 2025 new Boolean features and I did not crash once.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Chaos Academy

« on: 2024-12-19, 00:23:49 »

Even though Corona seems to be doing better much  than Vray :
https://rebusfarm.net/blog/the-state-of-3d-modeling-rendering-and-post-production-tools-insights-from-the-archviz-community

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General CG Discussion / Re: Feeling Cheated by Corona Renderer: The Impact of Auto-Renew During Black Friday

« on: 2024-12-16, 12:32:59 »

To attract new customers nearly all companies use discounts. If everybody gets a discount every year you might as well reduce the pricing overall. Until there is no business left.

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General CG Discussion / The State of 3D Modeling, Rendering....

« on: 2024-12-14, 22:00:47 »

Interesting and recent statistics by RebusFarm
https://rebusfarm.net/blog/the-state-of-3d-modeling-rendering-and-post-production-tools-insights-from-the-archviz-community

A few observations:

•CPU/Coronarender at the top ! Could it be that Rebusfarm results are influenced by CPU people that benefit most from a render farm. GPU people most likely don't need a render farm.
•Cinema4D lost some, Rhino too, I think to Blender
•Sketchup lost a lot. Having been using Sketchup a lot in the past, I found Sketchup to be very slow in modelling and texturing. I think that's why it's in decline.
•ArchiCad is growing. I think because it's BIM. Great if you can combine archviz with BIM. Was not a good idea for Corona to drop Archicad.
•Revit should be listed higher being used at such a large scale, probably not a modeller for renders.
•Unreal and twin motion are growing steadily I think since they are free apps
•Lumion lost a lot. Great app but their pricing was not competitive. Don't think they will be around a few years from now.
•Vray lost a lot too. Wonder why, 3ds max is still hot. What are they rendering with ?
•1069 votes and 2% C4D users in decline , that's about 21 C4D users and about 630 3ds users in this study. Hopefully this does not represent the corona-userbase for C4D very well otherwise I can't imagine C4D being supported for much longer. Especially now Redshift is for free with C4D and Redshift has a better integration with its assets in the C4D-asset browser. For people like me on a Mac, corona render/C4D is still the best option though.

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[C4D] Bug Reporting / Re: Cosmos browser cannot register the host application

« on: 2024-11-28, 23:02:55 »

There is an update bug in cosmos. There is a workaround however.
Once you click update in Cosmos, Cosmos stalls and at the same time the installer appears on your desktop. Go from C4D to your desktop and use the installer manually. After that, Cosmos is installed and works again.
Don't know why Chaos does not provide these instructions since this problem is there already for a while.