Adam Trachtenberg
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That’s a tough one for cloth to handle. What I might try to do is make a duplicate of the banners and animate the second copy unrolling via a bend deformer. Then bake both copies to PLA and set up one as the morph of the other using the pose morph tag. Finally, I’d use a morph deformer with linear falloff to keep the bend deformer animation on the roll while allowing the cloth animation to affect the unrolled portion. I think that would work, but I haven’t actually tried it so I can’t guarantee it.
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Some things you may be able to do: delete any unnecessary UV tags (they roughly double the memory size of objects), reduce shadow map size, lower ray depth and shadow depth settings, use smaller textures, use lower hyper nurbs settings….
Hard to say what else without having a better idea what the scene is like.
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As already noted, you can only render something as fast as the framerate allows. I think the way you get around it is to render with subframe motion blur.
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So you have two cloth systems in your scene: one for the kite and another for the tail? If I understand your setup, you would belt the kite to the string and then belt the tail to the kite. The hierarchy is irrelevant.
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Seems like something is causing a refresh, which shouldn’t happen from regular viewport manipulation. You’re not hitting the “A” key? Do you have any plugins? If so you might try removing them. If the problem clears try loading them back one at a time until you figure out which is causing the problem.
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Plugins required in Cinema. X-particles can handle liquid-type simulations but it doesn’t have a volumetric renderer. For that you would need Navie Effex ( https://www.dpit2.de/navie/index.php ) or Turbulence FD ( https://www.jawset.com/ ).
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Glad I could help. Benefits me, too, as I wasn’t paying enough attention to QMC.
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Okay, I’ve done some testing and I think I’ve figured it out. Basically, the old indirect illumination from physical render was relatively fast because it was using a low sample count — much lower than the “low” setting in the QMC default.
I find I can get a slightly better (less grainy) result a little faster using the following settings:
Primary method: QMC
Secondary method: Radiosity mapsCustom sample count: 24
Radiosity map sample density: 50%Everything else at default.
Give it a shot and let me know what you find.
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The GI in R14’s physical render settings was nothing more than QMC, so if you want the same result … use QMC. Unfortunately the other option is to bump up the cache settings and do a bunch of test renders.
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What is your light setup? Are you sure light is shining inside the object? Have you tried placing a light inside?