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[C4D] I need help! / Illuminated tent at night tips?

« on: 2021-12-16, 20:46:50 »

I'd appreciate any advice to help light this little scene I'm working on. It's a night time scene illuminated by the light inside a tent. (image attached with reference). I have a lot more work on the tent model to do but I want to understand how I might make the glow look better. Looking at my own tent the material is a tiny but transparent, so I thought maybe the material needs to be a fraction transparent — but that just makes it look strange! And I can't really get the glowyness happening with a regular corona light (area or object). Here, I set the light to not be directly visible which isn't quite how think it should be.
— any tips gratefully received! Many thanks

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[C4D] I need help! / Troubleshooting install Cinema R24 (Apple M1 Max)

« on: 2021-12-02, 21:50:13 »

Just got my new Mac and I'm keen to test it out but despite doing a fresh install I don't see Corona in my interface. It's definitely installed something as I have Corona Image Editor in my Applications. Does anyone have any tips?

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[C4D] General Discussion / Corona + Forester, can anyone advise

« on: 2021-11-24, 21:39:06 »

Hi
Has anyone got any experience with Forester using Corona in C4D? I'm curious if it as straightforward as I hope (i.e. the materials don't need to be recreated, the grass scattering works etc) I've asked the Forester team for an answer but haven't heard a peep so asking the hive mind here!
Many thanks

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[C4D] I need help! / Rendering bloom and glare with alpha?

« on: 2021-08-23, 21:53:45 »

Is there a way to render the bloom and glare for an image while still including the alpha of a scene? Alternatively, what workflow can you recommend so I can make the most of the bloom/glare effects for post work?
Thanks

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[C4D] Bug Reporting / Tool tips not rendering correctly (typos?)

« on: 2021-08-22, 05:09:54 »

It looks like the tool tip text wrapping isn't quite working right. Words at the end of the lines are not appearing correctly and are missing letters.

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[C4D] I need help! / Problems installing Material Library

« on: 2021-08-22, 02:53:47 »

I've run the installer twice now and both times the Material Installer 'seemed' to install, but on opening C4D (S24) it hasn't.
Can anyone offer any suggestions.
Mac 10.15.7
S24.111

Thanks

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[C4D] I need help! / Frosted plastic material tips

« on: 2021-05-06, 02:20:32 »

Does anyone have any advice for making a frosted plastic? I've made a good start but can't work out the diffuse colour absorption.  (Reference image is Octane). I thought that it would be SSS, but no matter what I try the discs behind it always seem clear.

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[C4D] I need help! / Not rendering clones

« on: 2021-04-29, 10:54:25 »

I was working on a very similar scene yesterday with no problem. Today is a different story — My clones aren't rendering (IR or PV). I even tried v7 to see if that helped but it didn't. (there was an error about an invalid number but wouldn't let me save the report).
If anyone has any bright idea the would be amazing — I have tried so many things.....
File here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5zuevlsuy1nxw08/AACTMocOChOWJXuK3Cmfat27a?dl=0

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[C4D] General Discussion / Help explaining the distance shader please

« on: 2021-04-10, 06:26:45 »

I've clicked on the [help] button and read the document for the distance shader but I still can't quite work out how to use it. I have a sand material that I'd like to fade out towards the horizon revealing a rock material on a duplicate object. But I can't make that happen. I also get some text overlaying the sand too which is very odd. Here's a screenshot of my material setup, which I tried to base off the sea foam example.
Can anyone help out?

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[C4D] I need help! / Light material/HDR with EXR file

« on: 2021-01-27, 20:33:03 »

I recently bought a set of HDRI images. I thought I could use them as environment or HDR lights but maybe the latest version doesn't support them as my scene is dark as isthe material preview. I'm sure I have used them before.... or am I missing something.
https://imgur.com/a/Z4eWS96

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[C4D] I need help! / Object position not updating in renderer

« on: 2020-12-01, 00:57:06 »

I've got a super random problem with a file. If I move some of my objects they are not updated in the render (interactive/viewport/VDB etc).
Anyone know how to troubleshoot this?
R23 (and tested in R21 too)
Screencap here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t326zwefg1svrsu/AADiV4-jMyI9RREApW27Zpbba?dl=0

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[C4D] I need help! / Understanding saving file: CXR / .exr / .rla?

« on: 2020-10-28, 05:35:51 »

If I save a render from the VFB it either spits out a .exr file (which I can open in Photoshop) or it saves a .rla which I can't do anything with. My guess is it's to do with multi-pass or shadow catcher as in both instances when I'm using those I end up struggling to export a file I can composit with.
What is the .rla file for and how can I use it.

Many thanks

(I'm on Mac)

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[C4D] I need help! / Help outputting MultiPass to PSD?

« on: 2020-10-14, 23:52:56 »

Hi
I'm struggling to work out the workflow to output a multipass to a PSD.
When I render it I only seems to have the regular save out setting s and not an option to specify as a PSD despite the Save settings set to Multi-Pass PSD. I must be missing something.
What is the right way of doing this?

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[C4D] I need help! / Limiting light + reflection to a specific object (C4D)

« on: 2020-03-27, 08:32:14 »

Is there a way to have light 1 only affect object 1, and light 2 only affect object 2 etc? I thought the composition tag might help but in a quick test (2 objects and 2 lights) I couldn’t get the lights to behave as I’d like. Before I start building out my scene I thought I'd check if I can do this the Corona.
Thanks

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[C4D] I need help! / Volumetric Fog in C4D (not mist)

« on: 2020-01-17, 05:55:29 »

https://www.stateofartacademy.com/en/corona-renderer-tutorial-volumetric-fog/

I thought I understood the basics of volumetric fog, but I can't seems to achieve this effect (link above) that has different densities, rather than a more general mist in C4D. With my limited knowledge I thought putting a noise shader in the volume would be good place to start, but it just makes things blotchy and just looks rubbish. Any ideas greatly appreciated!