Thanks for the quick reply; I appreciate it.
It makes sense that Redshift would become the default renderer. I assume the GPU version will still require a separate subscription.
There's no indication I saw in the video that the Viewport hardware renderer will work better with Redshift, so I guess we'll see.
Cheers!
Shawn
I assume there's been no update that allows you to generate a Viewport Hardware Preview (Playblast) that actually looks like what I'm seeing in my viewport when using Redshift materials. All of the Redshift materials appear black when generating a hardware preview to assess motion and composition. The only way to see anything is to disable materials in the viewport options.
I posted about this a little under a year ago in the old forums:
https://www.cineversity.com/forums/viewthread/5571/#22334
On my current project (which is just a fancy syringe spinning between various angles) cranking the Threshold to 4, turning off GI, taking all of the Cut-Off Thresholds to .1, and reducing the trace depths a 540-frame render of a 1080x1920 sequence would take around 18 minutes (GPU Redshift). A true hardware Viewport Preview (materials turned off ) of the same 540 frames takes under 30 seconds on my Mac Studio.
Now that Maxon owns Redshift (and is kind of deprecating the old, built-in renderers) I would hope they'd integrate it better with Cinema 4D.
Or maybe I've missed something.
Shawn Marshall
@Dr-Sassi Thanks again for your quick response. To clarify, my concern isn't so much whether these specific 3D tracking tutorials will be ported over. My hope is that ALL of the old tutorials would be available on this new site (unless they're REALLY outdated).
I appreciate your offer to facilitate special training and forum interactions regarding 3D tracking. In this case I'd watched the 2016 series before and knew I could probably track down the guidance I'd need fairly quickly. That could be a little harder with new tutorials. I also like that the old ones are broken down into multiple chapters, making it easier to find the technique I need.
For instance, if I go to the new tutorials section, search for "3D Tracking" in the Category of Cineversity Tutorials for the Product Cinema 4D I get four results.
None seem to be a nuts and bolts tutorial devoted solely to 3D tracking. The shortest is almost 4 hours long.
If I don't specify a Category I'm presented with 78 hits that are all over the map. The old site made it much easier to find the specific discipline I needed.
Best.
Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics
Are the tutorials from the old Cineversity site going to be ported here? For instance, I needed a refresh on 3D Object Tracking. A Google search turned up the 2016 series produced by Athanasios Pozantzis (which I'd referenced in the past) on the old site.
https://www.cineversity.com/vidplaytut/motion_tracking_object_tracking_inside_cinema_4d_introduction
The message on the old site saying "This legacy site and its tutorials will remain accessible for a limited transition period" concerns me a bit as searching for "Object Tracking" on this new site does not indicate that that 2016 series exists here.
Thank you.
Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics