PRESETS+SHADERS=TOOLS4D

[Cristian Tumiati]

hi to all,

In tools4d freedownload (http://212.25.188.197/downloads.php) area you can download 2 new free resource:

- our new scene for material design and test, optimized for Vrayforc4d using,
we hope you use this scene is to share your materials.

-2 preset library, one for Vraylight and other for physical Camera,
ready to use in cinema With Vray.
we hope this resource are usefull for all comunity and to learning VrayforC4d.

best
Cristian And Franz

[Tong]

http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/artists/just_cuz/JC_ThankYou.gif Cristian & Franz.

[glass.use]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

for free stuff 8)


really great effort

[Rich_Art]

Thanks again. :)

Peace,
Rich_Art. :wink:

[nycL45]

Very generous, thanks a bunch!

[LSphotog]

Hi Cristian,

Have d/loaded preset libs, dropped into cinema/libray/browser folder.

When I open the content browser to locate new content, all I see is an empty folder. What am I doing wrong?

LSphotog

[caraffi]

Hi Cristian,

Have d/loaded preset libs, dropped into cinema/libray/browser folder.

When I open the content browser to locate new content, all I see is an empty folder. What am I doing wrong?

LSphotog


same here

[Tong]

Guys must be not more, than 14 lib4d files in browser folder, merge some of lib files and make 14 in folder, everything will be visible.

[caraffi]

Guys must be not more, than 14 lib4d files in browser folder, merge some of lib files and make 14 in folder, everything will be visible.

they now show up, but when clicked still nothing available ?

[Tong]

in scene that opened in that moment will be added camera after the click in content browser on camera preset, yes?

place printscreen of yours content browser

[LSphotog]

Hi,

After posting I found the thread in the material repository forum and as Tong says, there seems to be a limit on the lib files in the browser folder.

I copied and pasted the content of the tools4d libraries into one then deleted these duplicated libraries, hey presto! it all works.

BTW I'm using R10.5 on mac book pro.

[caraffi]

working now w 14. This is a limitation ?

[ZuluQ]

Tong wrote
Guys must be not more, than 14 lib4d files in browser folder, merge some of lib files and make 14 in folder, everything will be visible.
Tong, how do you merge lib files? excuse my ignorance, but im still learning and already surf the web without any succeed.

Regards.
ZQ

[BVD2000]

thanks... :D

[Tong]

Tong, how do you merge lib files? excuse my ignorance, but im still learning and already surf the web without any succeed.

Regards.
ZQ
just drag and drop from one library to other.

[ZuluQ]

Thanks Tong!

[Cristian Tumiati]

Thanks Tong for your support and your PM suggests :wink:

[Invisible Man]

Hi guys, firstly THANK-YOU for your generous freebies, much appreciated.

I rendered the material test object 'straight out of the box'...
but is it supposed to be this dark? (rather Escher-like!) sorry, don't seem to be able to upload an example.
I have not changed any settings..also when opening the file it seemed to be looking for 'Sketch & Toon', is that module necessary?

Perhaps you could post your version of the image please.
Thanks[

[Tong]

Yea default material on object real dark

[Franz78]

hi to all,
for Darknes problem, can you post an example images, on our pc we have not this probelm.

Best
Franz

[glass.use]

make your units to cm "centimeter"

im sure this will fix it :wink:

the materials are fine with me,and screenshot if possible like franz said :oops:

[hiro]

hi,
thanks for the presets!

sorry, what does "std" mean?

http://digitalshapes.de/showroom/std.jpg

Best

[Franz78]

hi hiro,
Std area simply mean, area with atndard parameter, in particular with default image units.
all othe area are in W units.


Best
Franz

[Invisible Man]

Hi, I'd love to post my render of the material but I don't know how sorry!!
I have C4D set to cm's so I don't think this is the issue. HELP!!

[Invisible Man]

No wonder I can't upload an image...I just re-read the FAQ section which CLEARLY states that...you can't upload an image!!!!
doh![/img]

[Tong]

Invisible Man

http://imageshack.us/

[Invisible Man]

Thanks Tong for that...here goes
http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vraytestvs6.jpg

[Tong]

You mean this, just use bbcode

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5789/vraytestvs6.jpg

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5789/vraytestvs6.jpg

[Invisible Man]

Thanks again Tong...I'm getting my kids breakfast as well as doing this...not multitasking too well I guess!

Anyway you can see that something isn't right with the render. I will be very curious to know just what the issue is.
thanks

[Invisible Man]

After much faffing about I suspected something might be amiss with the model tut tut...the cube object had all its normals inverted fro some reason. Having corrected the normals here is a rendered image as per the supplied file. I would love to know what others are getting for render times. This was VERY slow- 27 minutes on a dual core 2.4Ghz PC.
The 'noise' in the glass is horrendous & various attempts to reduce this don't appear to be effective. Any luck with others....
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/968/newrenderbl5.jpg

[Cristian Tumiati]

Sorry for the normals :oops:

But the glass thhat you said is a volume hard and mach glossiness in refraction.

For the normals sorry.

For the glass ......It's ok.

[Invisible Man]

Hey Cristian, your normals 'ain't normal I guess ;)

The long render time...is that to be expected due to the glass being a glossy/ hard material?

What was your machine & render time?

Thanks, Mark

[Cristian Tumiati]

OK i've re-uploaded the scene TOOLS4Dmtl.zip

Best.

[Franz78]

hi Invisible Man,
i think your render time is a litle bit long but, the area lighting is very good for test speculars efx.
if you want to decrase rendertime you can set -1 max rate in IRMap.

best
Franz

[Invisible Man]

Hi franz78,
er actually I already had set that max rate to -1 !
I also had tweaked some of the other settings to lower values ie Light cache to 600 & Hmsph subdiv 40 interp 40

I would REALLY like to know if the 'noise' in the glass is meant to be there as a 'texture' or should it be 'pure' glass.
Can anyone clarify...perhaps someone could post their render.

Thanks in advance

[Franz78]

Hi Invisible Man,
I think you showld simply incrase subdivision value in refraction/reflection.

For render time how about your pc?
I suggest you to put your glass only on external elements, and not on the sphere, this will be decrase rendertime and you can see mutch better the refraction efx.

Best
Franz

[Invisible Man]

Hi Franz78, thanks for your suggestions. As you can see the render is better. I increased the refraction subs to 20 & Specular glossiness subs to 16. General settings are 'high quality' preset. Render tme for dual-core 2.4 Ghz PC was 30 minutes.
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7707/revisedrendertestic0.jpg