MartyBag

Hello, I'm not sure if anyone can help but I have recently acquired the Baluster plugin from Caleidos4D.it and I am having problems with my machine crashing when I use it. Salvatore who I acquired the plugin from has been great, even offered a refund because he is stumped as to why it keeps crashing. It's been around a while and he says he hasn't heard of this issue. Has anyone else out there been having any issues with it? I found a link recently talking about all the different ways to add plugins and I have tried several, all to no avail. I am running Cinema4D R21 on a Mac pro. Salvatore thought the graphics card may be an issue, it's an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and it doesn't conflict with anything else so not sure why it would be the issue but I'll try anything because this plugin could save me time. He also mentioned OpenGL but I sent him a screenshot of my settings and said they were more robust than his own so that wasn't an issue. Any help would be very greatly appreciated. Regards Marty

That's very sound advice, very much appreciated. I'll hold out as long as I can but you are 100% right. If I want to get the best out of Cinema4D and improve render times then the switch to PC just makes sense bot financially and specification wise. I'll get through Christmas and make a call, there's nothing that needs changed urgently. Everything is working absolutely fine in High Sierra. It may not be the latest versions or updates but until I'm forced into that decision I will persevere for a while. Really appreciate the advice, definitely helps.

Its the older cheese grater Mac Pro, 2012 and Cinema4D R21 and Vray runs perfectly fine on it with the current 1080 card but Cinema 4D R23 needs the system to upgrade to at least Mojave and the graphics card isn't compatible. I have viewed the new Mac Pro and would have been interested apart from the ridiculous price point and several reviews saying that it hasn't improved the speed of their workflow for several software packages including Cinema 4D, Final Cut Pro, Adobe CC and others. Some design companies who tested the new mid range Mac Pro also saying the software itself sometimes an issue as it hasn't caught up as it doesn't know how to utilise all the cores and extra Ram available so don't know what to believe, but certainly not paying £10k plus for a machine that doesn't give me considerably less render times. Hopefully in a year or so the price point may reduce to a more reasonable, affordable price at which point I would consider but for now the graphics card is the only thing slightly hampering my progress. I have to say you are the first user Ive heard say that this older cheese grater Mac Pro hasn't still got a place in the graphic design market. The new cheese grater alienates a lot of small to medium business users at its price point and the trash can as you say a terrible machine. Sounds like you are advocating the switch to PC? Have to say I'm not sure the software runs identically on both platforms, certainly past experience would suggest there's always lots of small differences in the layout and shortcuts etc... but maybe that's changed. Maybe it's more a case of the devil I know, now that I'm heading into my twilight years as a designer. Thanks for the feedback though.

Hello everyone. Just joined as I just purchased Cinema 4D and about to purchase Vray and want some help with regards a graphic card for my Mac Pro. I currently have the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and it's great but it's seemingly not compatible with Mac OSX Mojave and so I am wondering what to upgrade to. My issue is I can't find a simple straight answer, just lots of info on CPU and GPU and Metal compatibility etc... to be honest I'm not overly interested in why, I just want to know what will work best when upgrading to Mojave or Catalina and Cinema 4D R23 and Vray 3.7 and/or Vray 5 or Vray Next if and when I upgrade or change. Any recommendations very much appreciated. I will be also acquiring a couple of new monitors. I was looking at the BenQ PD3200U which has great reviews but again, would prefer advice from someone who is actually using these day to day. I have a couple of basic 24" Asus Monitors which are grand but I do get very sore eyes so looking to ease that if at al possible. P.S. I have investigated migrating to PC but I'm a Mac fan and use Adobe Creative Suite a lot and like it's functionality so not prepared to change even though could probably get a lot more for my money. I hope I've used this forum correctly. Thanks in advance, Marty.