Vantage intergration...

[johnnyswedish]

Hi Support,

Great work on the last build! I signed up for a 30 day trial for Vantage but asked them to postpone it as it was too early. I am super keep to learn Vantage with Corona mainly for store/event fly-throug's so need to know when is the best time to re-activate my trial? I have a full ALDI store I built and kept the mats as simple as possible to port to Octane. I have set up 8 walk-through animations and would love to spend the 30-day trial to texture, light and animate this with Vantage. When you release 12, will it be ok and have all features available? I have a 4080RTX card in my new machine and keen to do some GPU still renders, will Vantage help on single images as well? Have a good weekend All :-)

[TomG]

You could start the trial today, as the RCs won't have any new features and there are no reports of bugs in the Vantage export. You shouldn't have to texture and light in Vantage, that should come across from Corona (other than things like Distance map etc., not all materials come across). Animation you will have to build in Vantage as you can't export animations, and the ability to render animations from Max / C4D will come in 13 if all goes to plan, using the Live Link - we'll have quite a detailed tutorial on how to build animations within Vantage within the next week or two, so maybe you want to leave activating the trial for that, so you have all that info at hand?

Vantage can certainly help with stills.

[johnnyswedish]

Thanks Tom! Will have a go next week, have a bit of downtime finally. Have a good weekend :-)

[TomG]

TY, and you too on the good weekend! We hope you enjoy Vantage when you take a look :)

[grimm]

Hi, trying to export exterior scene from C4D R26 with corona to Vantage and it keeps crashing aroudn 75 percent.
Scene has corona proxies, scattering, sun and sky, materials.

[TomG]

I'd post that in the Bug Reporting, or via ticket at https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. Only crashes I saw were due to the Graphics Card running out of RAM, on my 12 GB 4080. What spec is your card?

[grimm]

I have 3090

[TomG]

But how much RAM on it? 24 GB ? (not sure if all 3090s had that or not). Best bet is to send in ticket with all the info, and a copy of the scene if at all possible. Also, try other scenes, e.g. ones with less scatters etc. that should require less memory, to ensure all works ok there (and again, any results from such tests, pop those in the ticket). TY!

[grimm]

Thank you, this one has 24 gb.

[ChrisMyatt]

Hi TomG, thanks for the Feature update on Youtube! Nice to see multiple Lightmix has been added!

I am just looking into intergrating Vantage now that it is available and have started the trial.

 I see there is a live link feature in 3dsmax videos online, is this currently available in the corona 12 release for c4d or is live link coming at a later date?

 The only help guide i see online is to do with Vray for c4d. I've dropped that link below.

https://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Live+Link+from+Cinema+4D

[TomG]

For the help guide for Corona for C4D to Vantage, check the newly released

As that tutorial mentions, there is no live link in 12, but that is planned in 13 as a way to render animations from the DCC through Vantage. Hope this helps!

[luis.lab]

Hi there,
I was trying out Vantage and I had the same problem as Grimm... keeps crashing at 75%
I tried complex and super simple scenes, but nothing works.
Also, my graphic card should be quite ok RTX 3070

Could anyone help?
Best

Hi, trying to export exterior scene from C4D R26 with corona to Vantage and it keeps crashing aroudn 75 percent.
Scene has corona proxies, scattering, sun and sky, materials.

[TomG]

Best thing to do is raise a ticket, include one or more of the scenes that are crashing, and provide the crash dump https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4648898278545-How-to-report-issues-C4D#h_01FDY55ARY2NMNTPBAXW7Z2JYV - thanks!

[luis.lab]

Hi Tom,

It is actually not a crash, it's just when reaches 75% exporting stops the popup window disappears and no file is exported, but the asset and tex folder is created.
Not sure if this is recorded in the crash dump file as nothing crashes, but will try and raise a ticket.
I tried a scene with just a cube and happened the same.
When I open the Vantage trial, everything works great with the sample scenes, so the problem is only in exporting the file out of C4d.

Thanks

[TomG]

Do remember to let us know which export option you are using (as there are several approaches, see the tutorial video for details). A screenshot of your settings for the export would help to :) Thanks!