we proudly announce: (VRAY for CINEMA 4D)

#1621

wait wait wait… maybe i’m being an idiot and don’t know my jargon but is there no alpha map?

#1622

Hi To All,
the vraymaterial is very powerfull and suport evry kind of necessary feature and more and more.
Multy specular support is very greate and shure, the alpha support is full but the approach is a bit different to AR.
Is very hard to compare the AR material with Vray material.
But shure all you can create with std cinema materal is makeable with vray material and much more.

Ciao
Franz

#1623

If you use vray4rhino(or sketchup), you need use transparency-map(bitmap) in diffuse-layers. It’s your alpha-map.
I think it same in vray4c4d…

#1624

no it is not the same.
we use another material design than avgvis.

we have a “material weightmap” channel that is the alpha channel (but can do some more things like mixing, stacking and blending materials, therefore the name weight)

cheers
stefan
(sorry i answer not often now, i am in an area with very bad and slow internet at the moment;-)

#1625

That sounds like the ‘mask’ layer in a channel Fusion.

#1626

Will this work with the enhanced opengl features in cinema 4d? If so that would be aweeeessssssommmmmmme.

#1627

Just found this thread and I’m beyond excited that Vray will be coming to C4D. I didn’t read all 50 some-odd pages, but if people havent looked at Sway Studio’s website, they do a lot of full CG car commercials with Vray as the renderer(Max as 3D program):

http://swaystudios.com/

#1628

This is just an advertisement for that company! Not too related for C4D…

-Pasi-

#1629

This is just an advertisement for that company! Not too related for C4D…

-Pasi-

I think Chris is just trying to show us some some examples of commercial VRAY animation (as opposed to typical arch-viz still rendering)

Don’t worry–Chris has contributed much to the c4d community–check out his free CS tool set.

#1630

Eh? In the posts I’ve read on this thread there was a consistent call for “But can we see animation with Vray?”

So I found you animations with Vray. No offense but even if I was related to Sway studios at all how would it do that company any good to advertise in a C4D rendering forum?

Here is the link showing they used Vray(NOT an ad):
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/sway-studio-revs-up-robots-t6790.html?t=6790

Geesh.

#1631

So animation-in-vray is “long-time” thing. Many big “animation-in-renderman” studios get time to making it(anima-film), for example to 2009-2010 and … :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:
It’s only “life” joke.

#1632

Hi,

thanks for the link, some great looking stuff, shows real potential of Vray as animation renderer.

I drool with anticipation for Vray for C4D !

Trig

#1633

Yeah, me too. I’ve been working on a spec CG car commercial for fun and getting an accurate and quick Car Paint/Clear coat has been unsuccseful in C4D with AR. I tried a test render of blurry reflections with a top layer of a clear coat of hard reflections rendered with GI and one frame I stopped at 18 hours of render time while it still had 10% to go. When Vray has glossy/blurry materials with GI in fractions of the time with a far better look. DOF with Bokeh effects. True camera lens models, true 3D motion Blur. The list goes on. I can’t freaking wait.

#1634

Okay, well, that Honda commercial and the other stuff on their site, some of it almost 2 years old (the Djarum ad) pretty much sews up the question as to whether you get much GI flickering with Vray in animation. Wow. And those robots weren’t low-poly tests either. Sway is quite badass.

#1635

If you just look at the Hyundai spot you can see so many cool things. Without me ever using it I can’t quite see what came from what. But if you look at the main pose of the car (bottom frame in the VFXtalk article) you can see the camera distortion. The ground and ceiling beams are straght up bending like a real lens. I love the subtle anamorphic lens flares. And especially the vertically biased bokeh effects like when shooting with an anamorphic lens. All those blurry metals. C4D’s AR would choke on that.

#1636

I have ?-n: Can vraybridge work with lights like this trick?
Or somebody from betatesters make it?
ilay

#1637

Even though vray is (from what I read and heard) really fast I doubt that sway rendered those shots on a couple of workstations, the amazing amount of detail smells like a heavy renderfarm.

But it´s nice to know that once you got your license you can spend your money on hardware instead of extra render nodes, which is very generous of the vray4c4d team and Chaosgroup.

#1638

Yeah. No doubt. There is an FX company here in town that’s about the same size as sway and they have a 400 PC farm (all rackmount).

That’s great news. I didn’t know this. So you buy Vray once and it can go on a 100 nodes if you wish?

#1639

yes we offer unlimited netrender nodes:-)
cheers
stefan
vrayforc4d

#1640

Great to hear that you offer unlimited rendenodes,
but about when?
Shure you don´t have a little tip, or hint… hmmm, hmm,
just a tiny little ray of light at the end of the tunnel,
just a little bit of info that makes our lives a bit less senseless,
hmmm, hmm???

Cheers
Holger