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[C4D] I need help! / Re: TEAM RENDERING ISSUE - PLEASE HELP!
« on: 2025-07-17, 07:14:36 »
ahh thanks, just about missed the start then. Thanks, I'll get onto it!
2025-08-31, 09:22:55
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[C4D] I need help! / Re: TEAM RENDERING ISSUE - PLEASE HELP!
« on: 2025-07-16, 19:30:35 »
Strange, when did that happen?
Can you give me details on the pricing of a render node please?
Can you give me details on the pricing of a render node please?
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[C4D] I need help! / Re: TEAM RENDERING ISSUE - PLEASE HELP!
« on: 2025-07-16, 11:12:19 »
Well I have a Corona Universal license for my Mac and there's a Corona Render Node license that says "available" on there.
I can't seem to assign it to my PC. Is there some way of doing that?
I can't seem to assign it to my PC. Is there some way of doing that?
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[C4D] I need help! / Re: TEAM RENDERING ISSUE - PLEASE HELP!
« on: 2025-07-16, 08:00:03 »
ALSO, I have just noticed when I got down into "About and Licencing" in the corona tab in the team render client box it brings up the "About Corona" box with the version number, etc. When I click on License server it takes me through to the web page showing licences. On that, I can see the "Corona Render Node" licence is available.
This is obviously the crux of the problem here.
Any ideas? No matter what I do on the Maxon App (from PC or from Mac) this license won't assign to the PC...
This is obviously the crux of the problem here.
Any ideas? No matter what I do on the Maxon App (from PC or from Mac) this license won't assign to the PC...
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[C4D] I need help! / Re: TEAM RENDERING ISSUE - PLEASE HELP!
« on: 2025-07-16, 07:55:24 »
I think I may have found the crux of the issue
When looking at the console on the PC team rendering machine I can see that it "could not acquire rendering licence. All the licences for this product are currently engaged. Rendering was cancelled - corona is not activated!"
However, when I open the Maxon app on both machines you can clearly see it IS assigned onto the PC.
I've closed, re-assigned, opened - unassigned, swapped, etc, etc several times and the same thing happens.
Getting closer to the solution perhaps...!
When looking at the console on the PC team rendering machine I can see that it "could not acquire rendering licence. All the licences for this product are currently engaged. Rendering was cancelled - corona is not activated!"
However, when I open the Maxon app on both machines you can clearly see it IS assigned onto the PC.
I've closed, re-assigned, opened - unassigned, swapped, etc, etc several times and the same thing happens.
Getting closer to the solution perhaps...!
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[C4D] I need help! / Re: TEAM RENDERING ISSUE - PLEASE HELP!
« on: 2025-07-16, 07:10:28 »
Wow, I thought I had the latest ones!
Will do that now!
Will do that now!
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[C4D] I need help! / Re: TEAM RENDERING ISSUE - PLEASE HELP!
« on: 2025-07-15, 09:58:29 »
Hi. Sorry for the late reply.
Attached is my corona version.
This error will happen with even the most simple scene. A cube on a plan with an HRDI and it'll error out.
Any ideas?
Attached is my corona version.
This error will happen with even the most simple scene. A cube on a plan with an HRDI and it'll error out.
Any ideas?
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[C4D] I need help! / Re: TEAM RENDERING ISSUE - PLEASE HELP!
« on: 2025-07-09, 11:04:25 »
Hello. I did fresh installs of both Cinema 4D and Corona on both machines.
Installed more RAM into the machine to take it to 128gb
I can render both scenes on each computer when I assign 'full' license to each one.
However, I can't even render the simplest of scenes (one cube, floor and HRDI) on TR without an out of memory error.
It may be worth noting that this error happens before anything else. Literally crashes instantly, no asset downloading, nothing.
I thought it was the hard drive being full but I've now got 70gb and I've assigned the cache paths etc to an empty internal 2TB SSD.
I'm fresh out of ideas, and so is ChatGPT!
Installed more RAM into the machine to take it to 128gb
I can render both scenes on each computer when I assign 'full' license to each one.
However, I can't even render the simplest of scenes (one cube, floor and HRDI) on TR without an out of memory error.
It may be worth noting that this error happens before anything else. Literally crashes instantly, no asset downloading, nothing.
I thought it was the hard drive being full but I've now got 70gb and I've assigned the cache paths etc to an empty internal 2TB SSD.
I'm fresh out of ideas, and so is ChatGPT!
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[C4D] I need help! / TEAM RENDERING ISSUE - PLEASE HELP!
« on: 2025-07-08, 09:17:24 »
Hello. I have a Mac Studio M1 Ultra as my workstation and I also have a Threadripper 2990WX as a render node. I'm trying to send jobs over to it and set it rendering but I'm getting out-of-memory errors. Even simple files. I have 128GB RAM in there and there's plenty of room on the internal drives so I'm not sure what's going on. I can render a non-corona scene that's very complicated in comparison - no problem. Therefore, I'm assuming it's a Corona issue.
Does anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanks in advance...
Does anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanks in advance...
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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Tones on my materials are 'washed out' - can someone help me?!
« on: 2025-06-10, 17:58:48 »
Worked a treat! Thanks!
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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Tones on my materials are 'washed out' - can someone help me?!
« on: 2025-06-10, 14:46:42 »
Thank you! I will give that a go!
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[C4D] I need help! / Tones on my materials are 'washed out' - can someone help me?!
« on: 2025-06-10, 14:15:38 »
Hello
I do retail displays. My clients are getting more and more fussy. A recent issue I've come across is the fine tones (especially skin) in some of my visuals is losing colour and getting bleached out. I've tried a few things and I'm hoping someone who knows more about materials (I didn't actually 'learn' Corona - I just jumped right in) can help? If I darken the scene to stop the bleaching it makes all my white things go grey, and it still loses some of the saturation in the image. I've attached an actual 3D file and a render next to the supplied artwork so you can see the difference I'm getting. Any advice welcomed!
PS - This promotion is old so there's no NDA issues here.
PPS - You will need to load in a HDRI as mine is too big. It's called "Underground Studio.hdr" in case anyone else has it.. I can send it to someone if needed.
I do retail displays. My clients are getting more and more fussy. A recent issue I've come across is the fine tones (especially skin) in some of my visuals is losing colour and getting bleached out. I've tried a few things and I'm hoping someone who knows more about materials (I didn't actually 'learn' Corona - I just jumped right in) can help? If I darken the scene to stop the bleaching it makes all my white things go grey, and it still loses some of the saturation in the image. I've attached an actual 3D file and a render next to the supplied artwork so you can see the difference I'm getting. Any advice welcomed!
PS - This promotion is old so there's no NDA issues here.
PPS - You will need to load in a HDRI as mine is too big. It's called "Underground Studio.hdr" in case anyone else has it.. I can send it to someone if needed.
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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Cylindrical Displacement on a Plastic Lid
« on: 2025-04-03, 11:55:00 »
Holy moly! I didn't even see that bend function in the decal options!
You hero! thanks
You hero! thanks
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[C4D] I need help! / Cylindrical Displacement on a Plastic Lid
« on: 2025-04-03, 08:11:10 »
Wondering if anyone can help me. I've always had trouble with this and I'm sure there's a way to sort this easily.
I have to model the lid of a spray. The lid has an embossed logo. Goes in about 1mm. With a decal it'd be no problem, I'd make a displacement material then map it to the decal and have it only affect the displacement. BUT I can't wrap a decal onto a cylinder - can I?
So, I'm assuming I have to go with a Corona material.
My displacement map is greyscale, goes from black to white.
When I map it onto the material I do it this way.
I duplicate the material, add a displacement channel, then drop the new material onto the model on top of the 'base' material. Because all other elements are identical, it's seamless. Well, it should be, but there's a square line around the edge of where the material is. I've checked the black and it's 100%.
Does anyone know of a way to fix this as I've fiddled around a fair bit and it's still slightly visible whatever I do.
I'm sure there's an easy way of doing this but I don't have time to search all over the place and be testing so I thought I'd ask the experts!
Thanks in advance
Image below to show the kind of thing I need to acheive.
I have to model the lid of a spray. The lid has an embossed logo. Goes in about 1mm. With a decal it'd be no problem, I'd make a displacement material then map it to the decal and have it only affect the displacement. BUT I can't wrap a decal onto a cylinder - can I?
So, I'm assuming I have to go with a Corona material.
My displacement map is greyscale, goes from black to white.
When I map it onto the material I do it this way.
I duplicate the material, add a displacement channel, then drop the new material onto the model on top of the 'base' material. Because all other elements are identical, it's seamless. Well, it should be, but there's a square line around the edge of where the material is. I've checked the black and it's 100%.
Does anyone know of a way to fix this as I've fiddled around a fair bit and it's still slightly visible whatever I do.
I'm sure there's an easy way of doing this but I don't have time to search all over the place and be testing so I thought I'd ask the experts!
Thanks in advance
Image below to show the kind of thing I need to acheive.
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[C4D] General Discussion / Amazon AWS Render Nodes. Has anyone done this?
« on: 2025-01-15, 16:56:53 »
Hi all. I've gone through the painstaking effort of creating an Amazon AWS render node. However, upon remotely accessing the node I'm finding it hard to install the software (C4D to start with, not tried to get Corona on yet).
I was just wondering what the licencing thing would be? Perhaps I just install the software as a team render node?
Can anyone advise? I might have to upgrade my licence, yes?
I was just wondering what the licencing thing would be? Perhaps I just install the software as a team render node?
Can anyone advise? I might have to upgrade my licence, yes?