r/Cinema4D

Just curious what everyone is using to render their creations…

You guys will laugh at me, but i’m currently using a Macbook Pro M3 w 128gb of ram… isn’t the best for rendering, but a beast at everything else i throw at it… trying to upgrade to a workstation PC soon :)

It would be fun to learn how to take stock footage of a statue and make it look like the eyes are moving in real life by compositing the footage in cinema 4d. i haven't touched the program in years but I miss it. I have access to Cinema 4d Lite because I pay for Adobe After Effects / Adobe Creative Cloud and Maxon. are there any tutorials that could teach me how to do this? and if so, do I have all the features needed to do the compositing through my Cinema 4d Lite version?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently trying to recreate a typical “render distance” effect from video games in Cinema 4D using Redshift, where objects gradually fade out as they get further away from the camera.

Unfortunately, I can’t get it to work properly. I’ve tried using camera distance in the shader to drive opacity, but the result is either too abrupt or just doesn’t behave the way I expect.

I’d like to avoid volumetric fog because of the render times, so I’m looking for a lightweight, shader-based solution instead.

Has anyone here done something like this before and maybe has a sample scene or node setup they could share? That would really help me understand how to set this up correctly.

Thanks a lot!

Hello,

I was asking myself if there was a way to export the position data of an object during animation from Cinema4D to use it to position 2D animation in After Effects without having to use Track Motion ?

Does anybody know how to prevent C4D/Redshift from baking ACES into the output of your render so it can be comped in Nuke? Currently, if you're using Nuke with ACES, renders from C4D will come in incorrectly because ACES is baked into the render.

There used to be an option to prevent Redshift from doing this in the render settings, but now they've moved ACES options to the project settings, and those options are no longer there.

https://preview.redd.it/2vsjn3gaa4wg1.png?width=1447&format=png&auto=webp&s=b213cea17fa5eec58cacfac2ea35a34b94a9971c

Completely new to Cinema 4D, not sure if it's the problem about the texture or the light. Can someone please tell me how to properly import object from Blender file to Cinema 4D? Thank you.

Hi everyone, I'm not so good at modeling. My model has this kind of issue with the normal or phong angle (idk)

Is there any way to fix it?
Thank you in advance.

https://preview.redd.it/gwtdpsqjk5wg1.png?width=1614&format=png&auto=webp&s=973d84339619aa87e871b8e5b1307777963c3787

https://preview.redd.it/clvusd4mk5wg1.png?width=726&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad43e6fff8dd8344686f19edf8b121dbee419b25

https://preview.redd.it/7sg00s70l5wg1.png?width=372&format=png&auto=webp&s=21e274503ba4d090c6aa65796f3e18ad03aca836

I am trying to recreate this render for my watch model.

this is somewhere i've reached, i have disabled the watch dial glass to make the engravings visible.

When i enable the glass, it looks like this, i have no idea why it doesnt look like the reference. it looks very flat like the light isnt even passing through it. i tried increasing the intensity of the light but that doesnt help, i tried putting a light between the dial base and the glass but that too gives me the same result. i tried increasing the glass material ior to 3, it makes the interior visible but it gets very ugly.

Please help how can i improve this render.

Thank you in advance :)

Hey everybody!

For quite a while now, it’s been really bugging me that I can’t properly use the Color Splitter in Redshift to create an alpha cutout. I often work with PNGs on planes, and I haven’t found a good solution for dealing with the alpha not showing correctly in the viewport when using the Color Splitter node.

I searched the web, but the only workaround I found was using the Standard Renderer material for cutouts… meh.

So I asked Claude AI for a solution, and it gave me a script that extracts the alpha from a file (or multiple files at once) and saves it separately.

I’ve saved it in my Dropbox along with a few other scripts (all AI-generated – I can’t code 🙄), in case anyone is interested:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4irq037lvt7oulg6b47p2/AL6Ogt0S_tRrLSIVEW7-Vms?rlkey=wu4ipzpnttdi2mbgap7yx1zny&st=brq0n74o&dl=0
(extract_alpha_MULTIFILE.py)

TL;DR:
Color Splitter node with alpha → viewport issue
Claude AI generated a script to extract alpha into a separate file

Hi all! I have been working on compiling a big repository of 3d resources (both free and paid). My goal is to make a free resource that anyone can refer to. Please feel free to share your thoughts and suggestions, this is very much a work-in-progress.