• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Animated texture previews and low res rendering

  Posted by David Wiffen on December 11, 2008 at 4:32 pm

  Hi Guys,

  Wondering if someone might be able to help me here.

  Basically I have a 3d character with animated texture face. As he talks the face animates (the face movie is done in AE and rendered as a quicktime).

  My problem is I’m rendering a complicated scene through vray, with long render times. I need to render the entire animation frequently to show the client and for the audio to be added. Therefore I need to render a low res version (preview quality it fine) but with the animated texture playing on the face.

  What would be the best way to render this, baring in mind I’m using vray?

  I thought maybe I could render as viewport, bout not sure if this would show the texture animating?

  Thanks guys!

  Ps…It would also be ideal if I could see the animated texture play in the viewport, rather than having to click reload on the texture everytime – so that I can sync it with the audio. any ideas for that?

  David Wiffen replied 17 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
• 6 Replies

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  Adam Trachtenberg

  December 11, 2008 at 5:45 pm

  Rendering as viewport would work. The material will animate in the editor if you go to the material’s “editor” tab and check the “Animate Preview” tab.
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  David Wiffen

  December 11, 2008 at 6:38 pm

  thanks for your reply.
  Thats great for rendering through advanced render, but is there an equivalent for vray materials? I can’t an animate preview in the vray material. Hopefully I’m just missing it somewhere.
  Any ideas much appreciated.
  Thanks again
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  December 11, 2008 at 7:54 pm

  Ah — VRay! I think you’re out of luck there. Probably a question for the VRayForC4D forum.
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  Lennart Wåhlin

  December 12, 2008 at 1:34 am

  With Vray1.1, at least, you can use regular Cinema materials.
  So for editing you can have the animated Cinema material, either on
  your subject or maybe just on a dummy object visible to the camera.
  Then for rendering use the VrayMat only.

  Cheers
  Lennart

  aka tcastudios
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  December 12, 2008 at 4:21 am

  [Lennart Wåhlin] “With Vray1.1, at least, you can use regular Cinema materials.
  So for editing you can have the animated Cinema material, either on
  your subject or maybe just on a dummy object visible to the camera.
  Then for rendering use the VrayMat only.”

  So the theory goes, but in my experience native materials are completely blown out unless you turn the lights waaay down.
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  David Wiffen

  December 12, 2008 at 8:48 am

  Ah ha, I see what Lennart means. Use a Cinema 4d native material for the animated face texture, then render it as the viewport. Native cinema 4d materials only get blown out when you do the full GI render through vray. Then for the final render, switch the native material for the proper vray material.

  Great stuff guys – many thanks

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