Comments on: Making It Look Great 6

By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:54:19 +0000

Hi Madmonk, if you could send the file and include your purchase email address, we’ll take a look.

By: madmonk

madmonk — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:44:43 +0000

Hi there, I’m baking the texture from the soccerball but I’m running into a problem since C4D it’s not bakin it correctly it just gives me a black psd! I can’t go on now…what can be the problem? I’ve doublechecked everything!

I’m on C4D 11.5 and Windows 7

Thanks.

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By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:15:02 +0000

Hi Anup, you can purchase MILG6 right here on Motionworks: http://www.motionworks.com.au/category/makingitlookgreat/ Best wishes, John.

By: Anup Burande

Anup Burande — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:06:06 +0000

thanks super star you are
but how to Purchase….

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By: Steven Jenkins

Steven Jenkins — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:31:43 +0000

I cached about 90 frames. No viewport optimization. It took about 15 minutes to bake and added about 900 megs of disk space. I’m in C4D 10.5, Leopard, Macbook Pro 2.2 ghz with 4 gb ram. Viewport speed didn’t improve much. Render prep time improved somewhat. One frame without cache gave a time of over 2 min.; after caching took about 1 min 30 secs. I’m playing with the 11.5 demo to see what effect render instances has.

By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:43:45 +0000

Hey Steven, that sounds interesting. Can you let us know when you’ve given it a try and tell us how it went? Best, John.

By: Steven Jenkins

Steven Jenkins — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:38:28 +0000

Hi,

I love your tutorial so far, I’ve been using C4D and AE awhile but I am learning some great tips along the way that I couldn’t figure out, such as phong angle. Hey, I was reading the C4D manual and it says anytime the viewport gets slow to use the Mograph cache tag and bake. Could this help in this tutorial? I’m going to try it because I’m too excited to wait for the answer!

By: Brady

Brady — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:34:16 +0000

Anyone know where i can find a good tutorial on ambient occlusion in cinema 4d??

By: Tim Clapham

Tim Clapham — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:53:30 +0000

I am using a Mac Pro 2 x 3ghz dual processor. So your machine is quicker and newer than mine. Are you sure that all your settings are the same at this point. If you have all the cylinder clones visible when you render it will take a lot longer.

By: Brady

Brady — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:10:31 +0000

Im just curious what type of machine you are using. As I am following your tutorial, which is awesome by the way, I am noticing that my render times are considerably longer, and I just bought this machine… a mac pro 8 core, with 2 quad core xeon Nehelem processors running at 2.26…exammple your render time in tutorial 6_05, took you 25 seconds, and took me 40..???
thanks

By: Tim Clapham

Tim Clapham — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:28 +0000

For those of you that have the same problem as Jonathan above, you need to select the Sphere with the Tile Shader Material. This has a compositing tag. In the compositing tag, uncheck Seen By Reflection. Then on the Sky object, make sure that Seen By Transparency is unchecked. This should solve the problem for you. Sorry but I seem to have omitted this step from the tutorial.

@Brady – the number of cylinders is extremely high. Make sure you have set the cylinders to only 1 height segment and 6 rotation segments. I also cover in the tutorial how to optimise the scene so that play back can be resumed.

Hope that helps guys.

cheers
Tim

By: Brady

Brady — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:26:07 +0000

Hi I just got this tutorial, and I just have a quick question, When I applied the cloner to the globe and add the cylinders to the globe, my computer almost stops to a crawl? And I just got this computer it is an 8 core mac pro with two quad core 2.26 xeon nehelem processors and my vid card is ATI Radeon HD with 512 DDR% ram??? any input would be great…I have worked ion maya for a while and in order to bring sown my computer performance that low I have to be in one heck of a detailed scene…

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By: Jonathan Lewery

Jonathan Lewery — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:38:03 +0000

I’ve been running into a few problems near the end of the tutorial and was wondering if someone could help? I noticed that after un-ticking “Seen by Transparency” on my Sky objects compositing tag that the sky object is no longer reflected in the sphere. If you look at the Render View instances in the tutorial it would appear to be the same result, however, the renders provided clearly show the sky object in the reflection pass. Another thing I am struggling with is getting the right settings for rendering. I rendered out in Windows AVI only to find that it does not support an Alpha channel. I tried rendering it with TARGA which seemed to work except for I had to render my diffuse pass separately with Straight Alpha checked in the Multi-Pass options (aswell as in the Regular Image options) in order for it to have an alpha channel. Aside from the sky object’s reflection missing my reflection pass comes out looking awful. Here is a screen: http://yfrog.com/58newstodayrefl0120j I have Anit-Aliasing set to best like in the tutorial so I am assuming it is not that. All the other passes came out fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:47:12 +0000

Can I just briefly express my great enthusiasm about the audio quality of this training. Many other C4D training sites have terrible audio, but this is super crisp and clear…

Oh… and the training is absolutely great as well!