Shawn Miller
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[John Rofrano] ” [Shawn Miller] “I wouldn’t care if my computer case was hot pink with purple stripes and had “My Little Pony’s First Computer Friend” scrawled across the side.”
Shawn… I think I found your next computer case! ????”
LOL, that’s it!! If this thing saves me days of render time and thousands of dollars per year, I wouldn’t hesitate to use it!
[John Rofrano] “ps. This photo created on a aesthetically pleasing Mac. ;-)”
Yeah… but if your applications require substantially more horsepower than Photoshop, the aesthetics of the computer you run them on would probably be a lot less important to you. ☺
Shawn
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[greg janza] ”
Does anyone still take the look of the box into account? I don’t care what the computer case looks like since I never look at it or even notice it.”I wouldn’t care if my computer case was hot pink with purple stripes and had “My Little Pony’s First Computer Friend” scrawled across the side. I only care about the usefulness of my tools, who makes them or what they look like doesn’t matter much to me. ☺
Shawn
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This looks more like a trapcode plugin to me, maybe Tao? You could probably do this with x-particles or thinking particles, but your particle count would have to be really high. If you’re determined to do this in C4D, your best bets are probably the sweep object or the tracer.
Shawn
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[Ron Moore] “Thanks, that’s about what I figured my options might be. What, if anything, have you heard about Krakatoa renderer, especially for these particle simulations?”
I never got into Krakatoa, but I’ve seen people produce really great work with it. I imagine it will cross my path at some point, but I don’t have a strong incentive to try it at the moment. What about you, is it one of the options you’re considering right now?
Shawn
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[Ron Moore] “Shawn,
Appreciate the suggestion. In RealFlow I lowered the Resolution down from 2 to 1 and dropped the Density from 1000 to 500 and cut the render time down from 4min /frame to 2.5min/frame, so I guess we’re making some progress.
Ron”
Ah, that makes sense. I’m also a RealFlow user (RF2016), so I’m not a stranger to the long renders. I’ve used Octane and Arnold for RF scenes and they both have their strengths. On my machines, Arnold seems more stable on high poly meshes where Octane crashes more, but renders faster – both render faster than C4D’s physical and standard renderers though. I haven’t tried ProRender yet, but that may be an option for you. Since you’re currently using an AMD graphics card, you might try downloading the demos for Arnold or Vray to see if either suits your needs. Word of warning though, Solid Angle/Autodesk recently stopped selling perpetual licenses for Arnold, so you’re looking at a fairly spendy subscription. Otherwise, you might consider a powerful Nvidia card for Octane or Redshift.
Shawn
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[Ron Moore] “I’m at a freelance crossroads when it comes to moving to the next level and am looking for some guidance from the group. I’m running the RealFlow plugin for Cinema 4D R17 and an 8-hour render time for a 4sec simulation is really counterproductive. I’m running Win10 on a 3.2GHz 8-core AMD FX-8320E processor with 8GB of RAM and my graphics card is a Radeon R9 270. My main question is whether to just scrap the whole configuration and start over (which is out of the question budget-wise) or if simply moving to a better graphics card might do the trick? Also, I hear Octane Render is a vast improvement over the native C4D renderer, but it requires an NVidia card, and I don’t know if it would play well with my AMD system. Well there it is. Can I salvage reasonable performance out of an aging computer or is technology accelerating faster than I can afford to keep up?”
Hey Ron,
How dense are the meshes you’re working with, do render times go down with less detailed simulations?
Shawn
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Hey Kingsley,
Tero is right, if you want to run Photoshop or Illustrator on a tablet, the Surface Pro is your only choice.
Shawn
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[Tom Sefton] “I’m still really intrigued to know what money you need to spend elsewhere to get real-time playback on full quality 5K Red raw footage with a single colour correction layer. And playback on a 5K monitor.”
Just came across this video, and I thought of your question. Tom Antos on a $3k custom build. He talks about editing 6k Dragon footage at about 7:55.
https://youtu.be/YG82HfBAySA?t=487
Shawn
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[Carmi Weinzweig] “How much did it cost?”
About $7k US from there guys:
3 year on-site support included
[Carmi Weinzweig] ” How many drives do you have in the case?”
Four drives: 1 250GB SSD system drive, 1 250GB SSD cache drive, 2 2TB 7200 RPM drive in a RAID 0 config for media.
[Carmi Weinzweig] ”
My experience is that I build machines because I want a specific set of components, but they rarely come out less expensive than a similar machine from HP or Dell.”That makes sense – PC integrators buy parts wholesale but add the cost of production, support, shipping, marketing etc. Though, you can build kit computers from companies like Supermicro at a slightly lower expense than shopping parts retail or buying from HP, Dell etc.
[Carmi Weinzweig] “. I do not upgrade CPUs, because the risk of frying the machine doing so is not worth the speed increase to me. :-)”
I haven’t fried a motherboard or damaged a computer from upgrading yet… but can understand why others might not want the stress. ☺
Shawn
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[Carmi Weinzweig] “I have built many machines over the years, and I have never upgraded the CPU after the machine was built (as any meaningful CPU upgrade also requires a new motherboard).”
I have – going from 2.2Ghz processors to 3.0Ghz can breathe new life into an older machine, and it can be less expensive than upgrading to newer architectures, allowing you to leapfrog technology generations. I fully understand that approach may not be for everyone though.
[Carmi Weinzweig] “You also do not consider that those other machines will be much louder than the iMac Pro.”
I have a water cooled, dual 10 core workstation with acoustic treatment in the case – even after an hour or so under full CPU load, I can’t hear it. The fans in my laptops are louder during encoding tasks… just sayin’. ☺
Shawn