Adam Trachtenberg
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[Michael Munkittrick] “Can I build an area light with a high difusion and soft shadows and manage to get that look?”
Yep, that would be a good approach. Either that or use a sky object with global illumination. Put a luminous texture on the sky and be sure to turn off the autolight. -
[Y.D.] “Thanks for the reply.
Can you tell me how to convert them in C4D?Thanks again.”
Plugins>Advanced Render>Convert HDRI Probe
Should do the trick. 🙂
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I don’t think the material system has changed since r9, or if it has it’s a very minor change. FWIW, the update should have installed an addendum explaining any new features. I think you can also download a compiled manual from Maxon’s site.
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It’s very very difficult to make realistic fire in 3D. It almost requires a sophisticated fluid simulator. Better to comp in footage if at all possible.
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Some challenging stuff there. I would give serious consideration to buying Remotion’s PhiTools plugin, which makes hard-body dynamics a snap. There’s a demo you can try out: https://www.rendern.net/users/remotion (seems to be down at the moment).
You could use the Dynamics module, but it’s a steeper learning curve. Regarding lava, you’ll probably want to use Thinking Particles or the free Fizz plugin (https://wwww.bonkers.de) in conjunction with metaballs.
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There’s a plugin called ZBlur that’s supposedly able to avoid this problem. I don’t have it but I hear only good things about it. https://www.3dattack.net/shop/index.php?plugin=5
Otherwise you would have to do it in post, and that would involve rendering a separate depth pass without your transparent objects hidden. Even then it would be hard to deal with reflections on transparent objects.
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If you have 9.6 use the new “subdivided” spline interpolation.
As for the banding, I think that’s just down to a limitation of 8 bit color. It does give a wide color gamut but in cases like this where you have a very big, single-color gradient, you can still have problems.
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I’ve never had much success with object animation mode. If you can stand the time I’d use stochastic mode, or if not use just area lights or a combination of area lights and ambient occlusion.
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Unfortunately Cinema doesn’t support dispersion/chromatic aberration, so you’ll have to fake it. One option is to combine three renders–one with a red light, one with a green light, and one with a blue light. You would change the glass material’s IOR for each pass to reflect the speed/deflection of the different wavelengths.