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I've just been watching the C4Dlive stream, and have just heard for the very first time, from anywhere, including this thread (!) that R19 includes an <50% speed increase for Standard Render, most effective on scenes with lots of reflection, transparency and refraction. It is literally double the speed it used to be, and nobody has mentioned it ! I still use SR for hair, and in a few other circumstances too, so this is excellent news in my book, and I just thought I should shout about it here a little bit in case anyone else had missed that. CBR

If you're not going to buy a plugin, then you are really going to struggle to get snow, sand, ocean and explosions any other way. You might be better moving to blender, which is the only free option that comes close to these things. Actually, snow you can probably do with the internal particles or magic snow from Nitro4d, but not the other stuff... CBR