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[C4D] Daily Builds / Re: V12 RC1 - New VFB UI / UX

« on: 2024-06-25, 15:52:00 »

not sure if this has been reported elsewhere but with RC2 the VFB dropdowns don't display by the down arrows that you click on. This behaviour only happens when the VFB is used on a 2nd monitor, ie a different monitor to where C4D is running

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: NVIDIA Missing DLL

« on: 2023-11-09, 11:45:05 »

thanks Pepelecrabb, that did the trick for me too

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Curves Editor

« on: 2023-03-01, 16:22:49 »

Thanks Tom, do I need to +1 that request or can I consider that done?

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[C4D] General Discussion / Curves Editor

« on: 2023-03-01, 16:01:30 »

Hi all, I'm following along the excellent tutorials from thecommonpoint but I can't see how to undock the Curves Editor in the VFB. Has this functionality been removed? I'm using the latest daily build in C4D

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: AMD 3990X massive slowdowns

« on: 2022-10-20, 13:38:12 »

Hi, chiming in over here as a 5995WX user with exactly the same experience in C4D. I've disabled SMT so I've got a usable machine at least but it's a painful move to make having just lost a kidney to pay for the machine 😀

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen only builds (3rd Gen starts on page 50)

« on: 2022-10-20, 13:29:52 »

Thanks Nejc, appreciate the advice and good to know it's being worked on. I was hoping to avoid disabling SMT but, doing that does at least make it a usable machine.

I'll head on over to the other thread.

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen only builds (3rd Gen starts on page 50)

« on: 2022-10-20, 11:18:45 »

As for the 5995wx, lottery would be nice, ha! This was pretty much just saving money for years and years. Seriously thought about other options although this ultimately made the most sense all in all given the workload. Suffice it to say I don't plan on upgrading any time soon even if I wanted to :D It is a real treat working on it that's for sure and it's really helping me out.

Hi Nejc, I went for the 5995WX too but I'm struggling with it. Temps are ok but when using the IR in C4D things are virtually unresponsive. The speed is great for final renders, but getting it to a point where it's ready to go is very frustrating. Any tips from your setup?

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen only builds (3rd Gen starts on page 50)

« on: 2022-08-10, 15:39:25 »

I'm hoping the PBO option with the 5995WX is going to push the gains in corona a little more than what toms HW found. From that YT video I posted last week Ian saw around a 35% increase in cinebench with PBO as opposed to 21% without PBO.

I still completely agree that the lack of competition from Intel is making AMD complacent and we're left carrying the can. Here's hoping Intel come back with something credible for us in the not too distant future, although I agree with Juraj, that there doesn't appear to be anything coming along soon.

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen only builds (3rd Gen starts on page 50)

« on: 2022-08-05, 16:41:43 »

yep, the prices are a bitter pill to swallow. The "pro" tag on the Threadrippers seems to add $2k-$3k to the price for very little benefit, to our line of work at least, as far as I can tell. What would make you pull the trigger on a new system?

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen only builds (3rd Gen starts on page 50)

« on: 2022-08-05, 16:09:39 »

I'm thinking of buying a system with a new threadripper pro 5995WX.

This is the spec I'm looking at:

Case
FRACTAL DEFINE 7 XL BLACK QUIET TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX 64 Core CPU ( 4.5GHz, 288MB CACHE)
Motherboard
ASUS® Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI (Intel dual 10 G LAN, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C port, SLI)
Memory (RAM)
128GB Kingston DDR4 3200MHz ECC Registered (8 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
12GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st Storage Drive
8TB SEAGATE IRONWOLF PRO 3.5", 7200 RPM 256MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 5000MB/W)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1200W HX SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® PLATINUM, ULTRA QUIET

Is anyone else doing the same or holding off to see what the performance is like on the 7950x?

Based on this review, I'm looking at around a 4 fold increase on the 5yr old Threadripper 1950x I'm currently using.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Should I use Corona Bitmap for all my material maps?

« on: 2022-07-04, 11:18:48 »

One idea to try to keep everyone happy, how about having a checkbox for "default images to Corona Bitmap shader"? This way users can decide whether they want it or not?

With regards to speed increases, I managed to take the scene parsing value from 8 secs down to 4 sec, just by putting the HDRI into a Corona Bitmap, that's before I went through all the other images and changed those over, I think that got me another 1 second. Makes the IPR much snappier if you have to restart it.

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[C4D] Daily Builds / Re: Chaos license server

« on: 2022-03-08, 14:28:03 »

I had the same problem last week. From memory I logged in over here, using my corona credentials, and downloaded the license server.

https://accounts.chaos.com/service_login?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chaos.com%2F

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[C4D] Resolved Bugs / Re: different material mapping between IR and full render

« on: 2022-01-20, 17:51:06 »

Thanks Bengamin and Jan

I realised what the issue was when stripping down the scene to send to you - I had the geometry with the tiles duplicated. If the scene might still be of use I'm happy to send it but this one might need to go down as operator failure on my part.

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[C4D] Resolved Bugs / different material mapping between IR and full render

« on: 2022-01-19, 12:00:41 »

Hello

I'm getting a different result between the IR and final render.

Material is applied using cubic projection and via a selection tag.

Full-speed non-debug version
Build timestamp: Aug  3 2021 16:40:22
Version: 7.0
Cinema version: R21.207 Cinema 4D (mutli-license)
Plugin status: Plugin successfully loaded

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: artifacts in render vs interactive

« on: 2021-08-03, 13:36:13 »

ok, noted, I've uploaded it with the assets option:

1627990520_quasar-with-assets.zip