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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Trying to reduce RAM usage

« on: 2019-08-28, 21:44:50 »

It's an MP4. I didn't realize you could do a texture with an image sequence. I'll have to give that a try.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Trying to reduce RAM usage

« on: 2019-08-28, 17:36:20 »

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll check out those tips and see what I can do. Thanks.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Trying to reduce RAM usage

« on: 2019-08-28, 17:19:17 »

I have a 20 second animation that uses a high resolution video for a texture. Every time I do a render it goes for about 150-200 frames and then stops due to insufficient RAM (See error message below). Often it's not just Cinema 4D that crashes but my entire machine locks up. I'm on a 2013 Mac Pro, 32BG RAM and r19. I realize I may be pushing my luck here, but are there any render settings I can adjust that would reduce the amount of RAM needed to render my scene? I have tried checking "Conserve memory (slower)" under Performance Settings but I still run out of RAM.

Thanks for any help.

===== Warning(10004) =====
System is running low on RAM. You may experience excessive parsing times and/or crashes. You will probably have to simplify the scene.

4 GB of physical RAM used by Cinema 4D
26.1 GB of virtualized* RAM used by Cinema 4D
32.8 GB of virtualized* RAM used by all running applications
32 GB of physical RAM installed on system
33 GB of virtualized* RAM provided by OS

* virtualized RAM means physical RAM + swap file on HDD/SSD

Corona RAM usage breakdown:
  197.8 MB beauty/multi-pass

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[C4D] General Discussion / Conserve memory

« on: 2019-08-22, 18:11:29 »

Does checking "Conserve memory (slower)" under "Performance settings" in Cinema 4D help with situations where someone is getting errors due to insufficient memory? I can't find any documentation on this.

Thanks.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Render Queue froze

« on: 2019-08-20, 15:33:19 »

I don't think it did in my case. It finished the first job after about 3 hours but then didn't continue on to the other three jobs. I'm also on a Mac Pro (2013).

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[C4D] General Discussion / Render Queue froze

« on: 2019-08-15, 18:23:34 »

I tried rendering 4 different Cinema 4D (r19) files last night. They each saved 108 PNGs to 4 different folders. After the first C4D file rendered the render queue stopped. Everything was properly setup in the queue so all 4 files should have rendered. Is there a known issue with Corona 4 and the render queue by any chance?

Thanks.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Shadow catcher using Corona lights

« on: 2019-04-18, 20:35:02 »

OK - thanks. I started to watch the 3ds Max tutorial, but I wasn't sure if it would apply to Cinema 4D. I'll give it another shot.

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[C4D] I need help! / Shadow catcher using Corona lights

« on: 2019-04-18, 19:58:59 »

Is it possible to use the Shadow Catcher material just using Corona lights (and no Sky) so the image can be composted with shadows in Photoshop?