Rendering with Cinema 4D 2026
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I just purchased my product a couple of weeks ago so Im in serious training. I hate reading material that rambles forever so I look for videos I can use and re-use. I have glanced around trying to find quick info on how to get started, the basics. No I have moved to trying to design something on my own. Building a simple house and rendering it in Redshift. The product is giving me a horrible result. I cannot get a decent render. as soon as I introduce a material of my own redshift refuses to render it. It allows me to use Standard and physical Renders, but they are no better. The renders are useless. What am I doing wrong here?
This is a pic of a simple box I made that will render in Redshift but will not render in Standard or Physical. I have more complicated renderings, but I trashed them before I made this post. When I select the settings in Render Setting it looks fine if I choose Redshift, but as soon as I choose Standard or physical, everything goes black
Been updating for your information. I added a template vehicle to my work to illustrate what happens. The template van renders OK but there is no improvement on my vehicle. Also annoying is the template vehicle is locked so that is can't be used for anything or improved for any reason. What do I need a template like that for. I already have a trash can at my househttps://foxvbiz.com/cinema-forums
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Hi Geocoy5,
Please share the Project file where the render refuses to render. If smaller than 1MB, then here as c4d file (no zip nor rar). If larger, please only use WeTransfer, Dropbox, Google, Adobe, or Apple cloud services. Here, please upload nit zipped and surely no rar. The URL, please pasted plainly into the text, no shortened or HTML wrapper. Sorry, I do not open URLs I'm not aware of, to keep it safe here. I strictly don't open new URLs. 9Sorry, too many IT security trainings.)
We have a lot of training about Redshift, on Cineversity or at the Maxon Trainer YouTube channel, often with files.
My suggestion, to get an initial deep dive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQOVQyjRJ1kPerhaps after this (since you mentioned ArchViz), this series, but it is not directly a series for first exploration with Redshift.
https://www.youtube.com/@MaxonTrainingTeam/search?query=Redshift
https://cineversity.maxon.net/en/results?term=redshiftMaterials are one part; they can perform well (or not at all) if three things are given in a favorable way: Model, Light, and Context. Like, if there is nothing to reflect, then any reflection settings will fail to deliver. Other than in photography (perhaps with eh exception of studio Photography), most parts are naturally given.
Scale plays another strong role while setting up a material, like with transparency and tint, if the scale is wrong, the glass doesn't show any material thickness, color effect, or is instantly and all over the place dense.
Let me know if that helps.
Cheers
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Your concerns are well founded. The application wasn't allowing me to post a file, so I posted a website. Best I could do. Ill check out your videos and get back to you.
Well I didn't see an opportunity to post a file this time, and it would not allow me to paste it in the comments, so I'll have to wait on that for now. Well when I attempted to edit the comment it gave me an opportunity to post a link. Maybe I'm a little green, but how do I post a link to a file that is om my personal hard drive.
Never mind, I can post it from Google or Microsoft,https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zciq0RSG_wfmFPdp-ALBwov6UwP1WUzI/view?usp=sharing
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uWbtiEfO1lDY0FWw_pqURAarP9z9jp9x/view?usp=drive_link
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uWbtiEfO1lDY0FWw_pqURAarP9z9jp9x/view?usp=drive_link
