• Maxon Cinema 4D

  trying to reduce quality of 3D model

  Posted by Jake Hawley on September 20, 2007 at 5:19 pm

  hi,
  so i’ve got this pretty complex mountain bike model that i am duplicating about 10 times. im rendering with the sketch and toon module from cinema 4D but 12 hours later with 41 out of 166 frames rendered i need to figure out a way to get this render going faster.

  the only detail i need on the bikes are very basic outlines so im looking for away take some of the information out. reduced polygons? and if so how do i do this?

  thanks a lot.

  Jake Hawley replied 18 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  September 21, 2007 at 4:29 pm

  There is (was?) a plugin called Simple Maker Pro, other than that….
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  September 22, 2007 at 8:36 pm

  There’s also a built-in poly reduction object which works reasonably well. Make sure you convert it to an editable object after you get the settings to your liking — otherwise it may be even slower than before.

  I’m wondering if there’s something in your S&T settings that might be contributing to this, though. Sounds like you just need outline line style and no strokes. Is that what you have?
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  Jake Hawley

  September 26, 2007 at 5:22 pm

  thanks guys. all good info. what i ended up doing was killing all shadows on the sketch and toon module in the render settings. this drastically cut down my render time by about 500%.

  in my render settings under Effects, i selected Sketch and Toon, then selected Shading.
  i then turned off shadows and illumination. this got the effect i wanted with reduced render time.

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