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I figured i would attach this here… i had it over buried in otoys forums. I am one that despises PCs but “for the moment” 3d rendering on the GPU is in the hands of “nvidia” sadly… I managed to put together a great “HYBRID” setup that lets you have the best of both worlds. For similar reasons why i love C4d for its consistency and elegance.. i’m also a Mac user for a lot of the same reasons. If i didn’t need an RTX card on the PC i wouldn’t own a PC at all. (I suspect once apple gets to the M5 M6 era this will no longer be an issue) But until then.. here is what i came up with. Cinema 4d on Mac Studio with a PC (over in the corner no screen) acting like a DUMB EGPU for the mac to use both for Final Frame rendering as well as IPR previews. all over a 10GB cat 8 cable. using Octane Render. NOTE: if you buy octane you get 10 free render notes.. (put them on all your PCs.. LOL) - Redshift on the other hand.. Maxon is bloody greedy and you need to buy a FULL RS seat and they don’t have render notes.. ALSO you need to setup either OLD team render or..something complex like Deadline.. both UGGGGG! - So after running all those previous solutions…i settled on Octane.. and never looked back! it was sooooo easy to setup and you only need to install the render node daemon on each PC..and enable Network rendering in the octane control panel for both final frame and under the settings for the live viewer. (Mac render node in the works) - this way no copying plugins or full C4d installs no licensing bs.. with octane!… Also octane live viewer will ALSO make use of your network node machines as well not just for Final Frame rendering! This setup very very scaleable.. if you need things faster… its practically now a single one button push to upload your scene or c4d file to the RENDER network! This allows for hundreds of GPUs to render your project in like 15 mins. LOL If you have questions let me know.. see Attached PDF. Mac PC OCTANE Network node setup and hardware.pdf

Here is a plasma/electric ball. Particles stuff is really nice 🙂 01_Plasma Ball.c4d

Hm yeah, it's really time for some industry standards like materialx to become widely adopted. Recreating materials for another engine is sooo cumbersome. Anyway, as a C4D/Redshift-user, the addition of the Laubwerk-catalogue is a real value, nice!

Sorry...it was a busy morning yesterday and in a post-Super Bowl haze I convoluted "Paul" with "Babb" and got "Bob". That is what happens when you try to crack off a quick email of remembrance and appreciation without proof reading. Though I did have a good laugh about this morning. Dave