Kenneth Kirkpatrick
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Do you use After Effects? I have just installed the C4D plugin that lets you import camera data, etc. from C4D into AE, and it’s fantastic.
Also, when I render a texture successfully in C4D, I can see it has been softened, which I don’t see in AE. When you have a softened element comped over a perfect, crisp 3D render, it can be pretty noticeable. Plus, AE renders the same effect far faster.
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Pay attention to the frame rate of your video texture in your final render. I have had the experience that sometime C4D will drop frames when using quicktime as a texture. Now I usually convert a movie into an image sequence to be on the safe side.
Also, make sure your movie texture has no fields. That can look pretty crappy going through C4D, too.
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Under File choose Interpret Footage, and under that choose Lower Field First, assuming this is DV footage
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Adam:
RE question 1: I did not know that. Thank you, that was most helpful. I already have AA set at Best, but the baked textures look aliased.
I am already using the bake tag rather than bake object. I am using all the layers, but I wish there were a couple more. Specifically I would like it to render out radiosity as a channel. I would like to try putting a baked radiosity texture into the luminance channel on a texture. It doesn’t seem like such a texture would have to be very large at all to give a good effect. Unfortunately, it isn’t an option. Is it in 10.5?
RE Question 2: I do want all the layers, but this is good advice for other, smaller elements that aren’t so much in the forefront of the animation. If I could get them all processing as one thing, that would be nice. Again, very helpful. Thanks again.