Cineversity

As I continue to evaluate whether I want to subscribe to Redshift I’ve come across an apparent limitation that’s a bit frustrating.

Let’s say you’ve built an animation around the Redshift renderer. You render that out, send it to the client, and they like it except they want the timing changed.

It’s a 900-frame sequence, so rather than take 3-4 hours to render it all out again with Redshift I’ll output a Viewport render (what I used to call an Open GL Preview or Playblast) to quickly show the client the revised timing.

Unfortunately, once I select Viewport as the renderer all of the Redshift materials in my scene go black. Lame. The only way I can now see my objects is to turn off materials in the viewport options pulldown, making everything various shades of grey (or their layer colors if I set those up).

Am I missing something obvious, or is there no nice way around this limitation? I’m seeing all of these great colors and reflections in my live viewport when Redshift is selected as the renderer. It all goes away when I switch to Viewport.

Thank you.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

Hi Shawn Marshall,

To my knowledge, the Redshift 3D materials are incompatible with any other render in Cinema 4D.

However, since Redshift 3D has a lot of options, I have quickly set up a rough preview render for you. See render settings.

It comes close to the preview quality, but please create more changes as you go.

Example
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pegva3i6wlnbs9w/CV3_2023_drs_22_RSpd_01.c4d.zip?dl=0

All the best

Apologies again for the delay in responding. Deadlines and all that.

I’ll experiment with your sample project. I’ll have to buy some sort of subscription to Redshift as my Maxon One trial has expired. I’ll probably get a single month to try it out further, then, if I like it, upgrade to Maxon One to get Redshift and get back all the Trapcode plugins I lost when Maxon acquired Red Giant and moved them to subscription-only (for Apple Silicon). Lame.

Cheers.

Shawn

Hi Shawn,

I have made a feature request to have something like the Viewport Render but with super minimal RS settings.

All the best

What strikes me as odd is I can see a great-looking viewport preview on my monitor while working in Redshift. Why can’t that image I’m seeing be routed into some sort of hardware renderer that can crank out 20-30 frames per second?

Shawn

Hi Shawn,

Please share that with the “Share Your Ideas!”
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

If I post my requests alone, with no one backing me up, I will sound like someone who uses those weird general statements (like “many people say …”) to get what I want.
This is not my style. It never works; it instead fires back if that doesn’t show up in the “Share Your Ideas”. With that not showing up in the inbox, my feature request might never get to the top area of a to-do list, while others might submit different ideas. I have made hundreds of feature requests, but it needs supporters, pretty much always!

All the best