C4D role in the workflow

[Anonymous]

For those who use C4D in the pipeline as a portal to the excellent rendering engines (AR2 and VRay), how much do you use C4D for modeling beyond what you've already done in AC? In other words, what, if any, modeling tasks are easier and faster to do in C4D than in AC? I've struggled a bit with the 3D profiler, and wonder if some of those detail shapes might not be better to do in C4D?

We currently use AC for the design development and const doc phase (traditional residential architecture), but have not yet migrated to cg renderings, which I want to do.

[Thomas Holm]

ejrolon wrote:
It is not even funny… 30-50% off and no splotches (technical term for the dirty circular shadows due to not having enough GI samples)

Please excuse me for being ignorant... Are you saying Vray is double the speed of Artlantis R and gives higher quality? If this is so, could you please explain your complete setup/process?

[owen]

ah sorry .. i was refering to Cinema4Ds Advanced Render (AR) Module

[Eduardo Rolon]

Rendering an Animation it feels faster than Artlantis and the quality is better. The number is vs C4D's Adv renderer.

A 768 x 432, 30 FPS, 12 sec length took ±5hrs time. It is a sun/shadow animation. On a 2.4 core duo Mac Book Pro.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Still having the forum error when attaching images…

[Eduardo Rolon]

last… and BTW this was was my first try using the plugin. All in all it feels almost as fast as Artlantis with better quality. The Sky is Vray's physical Sky, only one click to turn on and input your longitude and latitude (almost as easy as Art). The camera is Vray's with a "fish eye " lens to distort the perspective.

On another note the plugin is still buggy…

[Thomas Holm]

Interesting building. What is it?

[Eduardo Rolon]

Engineering Department at Universidad de Puerto Rico, Bayamón Campus.

63,000 sq.ft

work crew
Principal: Arq. H Betancourt
CD's etc: myself

[Thomas Holm]

Nice. Thanks!