Have a nice Xmas/Season Holidays, and a good start into new Year 2012

[stefan]

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Dear Users,

we wish You all the best for holidays, hope you can relax a bit, and also we wish you a good start into the new year 2012!

as a small thank you to all of you i made a first new VRAYforC4D preview scene pack v1.0.
it uses a hdr, GI and real area lights. they arent specially optimized for speed, target was for quality material feedback, to help producing better materials.

feel free to download, please note for the previews you need version c4d v12 or v13.:

DOWNLOAD free Material Preview Scenes (http://securebucket.s3.amazonaws.com/V_Previews.zip)

i hope you like the new material previews, to install simple unzip then and place the 12 c4d files and the jpg files in the "MAXON/Cinema4d 13/libary/materialpreview" folder and restart c4d.

what is coming in nearer future -2012 will be a quite exiting year for all VRAYforC4D users:

we intense work on the 2 free promised updates 1.3/1.5, they are coming closer, the first DR buckets are rendering within c4d full .vrscene native format (even in editor), and the new high end multipass system is growing and growing, most channels ready. all is full vrscene native now which enables things like native V-Ray shaders (also from maya, xsi & max), DR, and is the base to make RT work within c4d for 2.0 later this year.

with best greetings from the VRAYforC4D Team!
Stefan

[c.legend]

Stunning !

[mism]

Thanks Stefan. Happy Christmas everyone. Looking forward to what V-Ray brings next year.

[3dkobi]

Thanks Stefan, it looks promising...have a great holiday :)

Peace,
Kobi

[Vision4Next]

Thanks a lot and Merry Christmas to all of you.

[c.legend]

is .vrscene coming for this update ? 1.5 - 1.3 ? so if i have a file right now at .vrscen in cinema i can just go ahead and "open it" in 3ds max ? ... this more exiting than i thought !

[stefan]

yes vrscene is in 1.5 yes as save option.

the thing is that max and maya do not yet have a vrscene import function. but will get in future most likely. i certainly will push that.

right now you will be able to render content from max, maya and c4d on the same render system/farm using the same standalone render nodes p.e. output is identical on all 3 then, artists can used mixed environments, result will be same- what will come as first step is also an import/export of materials saved in vrscene format.

in future when vrscene files will be also able to be imported to c4d, max, maya (more later 2012) this might be a superb way to work cross platform. but thats not in near (1.5) time range yet.

cheers
stefan

[machmirdenlukas]

merry x-mas to the whole team and community!
great things to come!
cheers rob

[eduardc4d]

You guys are awesome... Merry Christmas to everyone on the forum !!!

[stefan]

ps please all give me feedback/suggestions on the new scenes!

thx
stefan

[3dkobi]

you want feedback stefan .... well, the material preview scenes are great :) I love them, and they are much better than those of c4d...especially the sphere which I use often, and now is covering the whole window :)

Peace,
Kobi

[Rich_Art]

merry Christmas to the whole VrayForC4D team and community as well of course!
Thanks for the new preview scene.

Peace,
Rich_Art. :good:

[pixelquake]

thank you so much!

have a great time!

[Vision4Next]

Just played around with the new previews. They are superb!!!
One suggestion: maybe a shrink wrap would be better on the logo preview

[nycL45]

Peace, cheers and the best to all in 2012!

[Abrahame]

Superb
Have a nice Xmas/Season Holidays, and a good start into new Year 2012
Thanks for sharing.

[dlew]

happy holidays all and thanks stefan!

[Garban]

Happy Xmas from Spain!
Feliz Navidad a todos desde España!

[eduardc4d]

Happy New Year to all the members of the VrayforC4D forum, let's hope of a 2012 full of great renders coming from all of us.

[visualcore]

Thank you stefan...and all the best for the year 2012!!

[st5v5]

ps please all give me feedback/suggestions on the new scenes!
stefan

i want to make my own preview scenes, so can i ask you...

how do you judge if there is too less or too much light in the preview scene?
i guess the lightning in the preview scene should be in a way normalized,
so that 80grey diffuse looks almost white, and 1-5%black diffuse is still visible and not just black.
but specular also has its influence etc...
the point is not to make wrong (too bright or dark) materials because of a badly lit previewscene.
how do you approach this?

[c.legend]

i also have a question .. why some scenes have 1.0 gamma instead of 2.2 ?

[Republikpalast]

Thanks a lot, but - silly question - where do I find the preview scenes after installation?

Best wishes for 2012
Horst

[stefan]

you find the scenes in the materials, same as all other c4d material previews....

a good start into new year to all!

cheers
Stefan

[ichi.one]

DR & more multipass layers for 2012 ! :party:

happy new year everybody

[pixelsender]

sorry for a stupid question but whats ment by "DR" =)

[pixelquake]

distributed rendering

rendering ONE image on more than 1 computer

[STRAT]

Really looking forward to that. We do that at the mo, but it's a manual process - requires a few extra clicks and a final photoshop stitch.

[stefan]

first c4d DR tests are working here in our labs, we even did a test over internet. some work has still to be done though .

cheers
stefan

[STRAT]

Remote DR rendering over the interweb? Now that would be completely and utterly awesome!!!

the ability to send still and animated rendering from my home office to my head office and utilise all cores possible would be heaven!

[stefan]

well i have to say while possible, this isnt really efficient. it was more a test on slow latency networks. you needed very very fast internet connections to make that reasonable.

cheers
stefan

[STRAT]

details mate, details :dance2:

less yabber and more action. make it happen dude!

[michael holt]

And i always thought "DR" means "Disturbing Rendering"
because of that, i thought i was having this feature since i use vray......

[stefan]

DR is coming along good, but still yet work on shaders, tuning and be coordinated with new mp.

cheers
Stefan

[Paulus]

Hi Stefan,

is it possible to make the buckets like in AR3. For example when 7 cores/threads are ready, they continue rendering on the last bucket?

sorry for my English.

cheers Paulus

[brasco]

is it possible to make the buckets like in AR3. For example when 7 cores/threads are ready, they continue rendering on the last bucket

Reduce the bucket size in vray system tab, this way you'll get less idle cores.

cheers
brasc

[Paulus]

Yes, thats right, but when you render a huge sequence........
Every little bit counts. ;)

See it as a proposal.

cheers
Paulus

[stefan]

Yes thats easy to make i guess, i think vlado has it on its plan.
But best us to have small buckets, vray is very optimized for samll buckets. they are more efficient than bigger ones in mist setups. This brings more. But we add that too if wanted. In few situations it can give some tiny extra.

For real speed advantage use small buckets , that works good in vray.best with good aa and no extra filter.

[Paulus]

Thank you for the nice info. It would be great!

cheers
Paulus