• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Issues on shadows in Cinema 4D

  Posted by Guilherme Paulino on August 21, 2020 at 12:17 pm

  Hi there!

  I’m rendering simple scenes using either Physical or Standard engines in Cinema 4D. I turned on Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion settings. I’m using Team Render as well with 4 identical iMacs.

  But whenever I render these images, the shadows look strange. A lot of squares appear, as it follows in the image and video below:

  https://i.imgur.com/r2oQkgb.png
  https://youtu.be/gtOuwvOvkcA

  Do you guys know what the problem is?

  Thanks for the help 🙂

  Best regards,

  Guilherme Paulino

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  Brian Jones replied 5 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Brian Jones

  August 23, 2020 at 6:38 pm

  I didn’t render with Team Render much and haven’t at all for a while. The still looks like the sort of like the old days with mismatching processors/FPU’s but with matching iMacs (and that mismatch thing doesn’t happen so much anymore – or at all, I haven’t heard it lately)…
  Are the iMacs set to the sync to the same time server? Maybe a bad guess but, if you are using render settings with random built in (some of the GI uses random distribution patterns) perhaps that’s it if the Macs are not time synced (based on – the usual method for generating pseudo-random numbers is inputting the time – but that’s a pure guess, I do not know how they code their random distributions).
  The video clips looks more like the noise you get with animated GI, the help Global Illumination/Tips and Tricks https://help.maxon.net/us/index.html#32220 has a section (lower down the page) called GI and Animation which has a bunch of hints.

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