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Focus in C4D renders
Trying to improve my Cinema4D skills. It seems when I render items from C4d they tend to look soft. Especially images I have tried to place on planes such as a pic file or png. Can someone give me some pointers as to where to look to see where I am failing? What is the best format for a still image and what mapping should I use (UVW, Frontal, Cubic, etc. To place a simple image on a plane or cube and move it around in space? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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3 Replies
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Most likely your images are simply too low res and the sampling/ filtering will make them look blurry. Turn it off alltogether or use another method than the default MIP (in the material properties for the texture layer). The format of the images shouldn’t matter – to C4D its all just pixels once it has loaded an image regardless of the format.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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I agree with Mylenium. Square interpolation will give you the sharpest result other than “None”. If you do use MIP or SAT interpolation you can employ the “Blur Scale” parameter to sharpen up your tex. Just remember that *negative* numbers result in sharpening. I generally use -40-50%.
The “MIP Scale” parameter in the render settings>antialiasing tab will also have an effect on sharpness, taking camera distance into consideration. So at 0% there will be no blurring of tex on distant objects, and at 100% there will be quite a bit of blurring. This can prevent flicker in animations.
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Strangely enough, nothing I do seems to have an effect. The tiff file I am using is 1058 X 600 pixels in a 720 X 540 render. I have tried every setting from none to SAT and blur scale from -100 to +100. Obviously I am doing something incorrectly. Everything else in the comp looks fine but trying to place a tiff on a plane looks blury no matter what I do.
Karl Newman
Karl Newman Productions
Dallas, Texas
kwnewman@earthlink.net
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