• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Help with Render and Material

  Posted by Timothy Loston on October 13, 2009 at 6:29 pm

  Hi,
  I’m doing this project for school and I really need some help with my render and material being that I’m pretty new to cinema 4d. Here is a render that I just did with no extra settings (NO caustics, GI, etc.) in the render.

  

  I put a shiny metal material on it but I hate the way it is looking so choppy and pixelated in areas, not to mention looking pretty matte. Any guidance in getting this to look better in anyway would be really really appreciated. Thanks a lot.

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 16 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  October 13, 2009 at 8:20 pm

  Looks like you need to enable Best AA in render settings. As for the metal, it probably looks like that because it doesn’t have much to reflect. You may be better off using the material’s environment channel instead of — or in addition to — reflection.
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  Timothy Loston

  October 13, 2009 at 9:14 pm

  Thanks a lot for that. I think the environment made a real difference in the material.

  

  I’m still getting some of that pixelation and choppy edges though. I changed the AA setting to best. I put a slight hypernurbs on the object so it took care of the major problems, but I’m still not satisfied. Is there anything else you can suggest to make it better?

  Thanks again.
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  October 14, 2009 at 3:13 pm

  Yeah, that’s definitely looking better.

  I’d try bumping up AA from the default 1×4 to 2×4 and keep raising it until it looks right, because I’m pretty sure that’s the problem.

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