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  1. Cool release, from the side-line it looks like the best since R21. Given the previous outings this might not mean much. But this adresses the two areas that saw the least love over the last 5+ years, rendering and modelling. Love the Remesher and the new modelling tools. The integration of RS CPU is a smart move as you get rid of physical, have a modern renderer, but still offer more to the ones paying even more.

    But no way someone can afford this for hobby.

    Have fun with it!

  2. 10 hours ago, HappyPolygon said:

    That moment wasn't included in the final cut.

    Luckily that shot was not expensive... I wonder how something like that makes it into the script and then gets finished, and then cut... Anyway, the rest of the scene is still among the stupitest things I' ve seen for some time, and I am forced by my children to watch Paw Patrol almost every day 😉

    Well, the thread is about the VFX, and I don't want to derail it any further, but who wants some more of season 4 goodness should really check Major Grin on youtube... (Maybe we should start a SF show/movie discussion off topic thread).

  3. On 11/19/2021 at 11:15 PM, Igor said:

    I watched everything, but I was not impressed. 😉  What I liked was mycelium technology which was inspired by Paul Statements theory, a mushroom guy.

    It is an interesting idea, but the execution storywise was again bad. Especially the fact that they discover that it destroys the beings living in mycelium space, decide to not use it any more at the end of the episode, forget about that, and then three episodes later go happy spore jumping again. Ah, so much nonsense and espcially blunt copying of axisting ideas... I have to get out of rant mode. It is what it is. But it is not good 🤪

  4. On 11/19/2021 at 8:14 PM, HappyPolygon said:

    StarTrek - Discovery begun in Season 1 somewhat at the same concept as the previous series but had superior CG. As the story progressed the scenario became more and more appealing. I like series that start a bit slow and predictive but show future potential. StarTrek - Discovery is now out of control with a re-imagined futuristic StarFleet closer to other contemporary SciFi futuristic concepts. 

    Na, I have to disagree, Season 1 had nothing of previous Trek, not even at the beginning. And then it got worse... I wouldn't say I hate it, but I hate the fact that the producers turned it into thrash that tries to copy other stuff. The stories don't make much sense, and there are no characers that I can care about. Especially Burnham is hard to accept as the shows lead. And this is not because I don't like strong female roles -Kira is one of Treks best character for me - but this combination of arrogance and the fact that she has to be part of every problem's solution and that she can disobey orders and never faces any consequences (besides being promoted to captain in season 3) is the biggest failure of this series for me. And with all the crying and so on it is just over-acted (as most of the cast imo) Oh yeah, and the scripts... sooo bad. Especially the AI thing in season two and the seven signals... what a mess. Season 3 was slightly better, but also not good. Here the characters got really unlikable in some places (jokes about the remains on the poor Section 31 guy sticking to someone' boots and having to clean up the spore drive chamber of his remains - who thinks this is funny, or even closely in the moral mindset of Star Trek?).

    The best of Discovery so far was Cpt. Pike. So I really hope to be able to see Strange New Worlds legaly in Germany, but I doubt it. As for the VFX: it is executed well, but I don't like the shots themselves, to dark, to much going on, too many gimmicks like bots on the ships outer surface, a maze of rollercoasters inside the ship, just stupid.... To be honest, Is till prefer the model shots from TNG and DS9 over new Treks CGI, but of course the CGI is better than that of DS9. But there it was just used to support the story and worked to great effect. In shows like Discovery or Picard it is sometimes overdone. And good VFX doesn't cure the problems of a show or movie.  I would still watch Season 4, because I just love Trek and hope they get their act together... So unfortunately I would be one of the many viewers who swear about every episode afterwards, but still improve the statistics for Kurzman and Co. I am just too curious 😉 But I wont be sad if I wont be able to watch it.

    Picard S1 had its own problems (the story, GoT-like sexual tension between romulan siblings, eye removal on screen...), but I  am kind of looking forward to season 2, mainly because of Q.

    As for good SF, I am much more excited about rewatching DS9, new seasons of The Orville and The Expanse (too bad it will end after this season), and Foundation. Too bad we now need 213 subscriptions to watch all this stuff. Will give Cowboy Bebop a try these days. I was also intrigued by the trailer for Apple's Invasion. So I guess I will have to try a Apple subscription soon.

     

    Any other tips for good SF?

  5.  

    33 minutes ago, HappyPolygon said:


    Why ? Are they not good value for money or does the RTX not perform as expected ?
     

     

    I guess Icecavaman relates to the pro GPUs (used to be named Quadro). And I agree that thes don't make too much sense on a laptop.

    33 minutes ago, HappyPolygon said:


    I thought RTX was just for better gaming experience. NVIDIA featured RTX only for their real-time reflections and nothing else. RS and Octane as far as I know are raytracing renderers...

    RT cores are for raytracing, and this can be used outside of games as well, at least if you go with a renderer that is not CPU-only. Many of the current DCC rendering engines (Cycles...) use Optix for rendering, which utilizes the RT cores in RTX GPUs. 

  6. Hi, I recently also dig into laptops for work (but more visualization reserach, not daily CGI work). I would go with an RTX 3070 or 3080. As Pinin said have a good look at the TGP! I would advise against anything below 130w. And with an RTX 3080 you have to look for the 16GB version, not 8GB. That said, get a 165W RTX 3080 with 16GB if possible. I have an XMG Neo 15 with such a GPU - it is pretty good 😉 In other parts of the world this would be Eluktronics or similar....

    An RTX 3070 with a higher TGP might be faster then an 3080 with lower TGP, but the larger VRAM might be important depending on your work...

    Regarding the pro cards that are often in pro Laptops: If you want to go for something like this, than make sure it is an NVIDIA RTX A4000 - RTX A6000. The naming scheme is pretty bad and the last generation cards are named very similar (RTX 4000.... without the 'A'). Best ignore cards with names like 'NVIDIA T1200'. That said, I do not think it makes sense to go with any of these cards, they are much more are expensive then the gaming variants, and quite often, they use a very low TGP and the vendors hide that pretty well, at least HP with its zBook series. With the desktop you would still have the advantage of much more VRAM with the pro-cards, but that is not the case for the laptop. At least I do not think there is an AX000 mobile card with more than 16GB, but there is the previous gen RTX 6000 with 24GB.

    That said, the drivers are said to be better for the pro cards compared to gaming cards. But: you get the same driver features in the studio variants, which are often in "content creator" laptops.

    In addition to my XMG we just ordered an Gigabyte Aero 15, should arrive soon. I am curious how it perfroms, but the TGP is only mediocre here (we choose it because of its mini-DisplayPort, it seems there are no high-powered-GPU laptops with mini-DisplayPort).

     

    Oh, and then there is the RTX 3080 Ti for Laptops on the horizon: https://www.notebookcheck.com/Leak-Die-Nvidia-GeForce-RTX-3080-Ti-Laptop-GPU-mit-7-424-CUDA-Kernen-zeigt-sich-mit-dem-Core-i7-12700H.577928.0.html (sorry only hav ethis german link)

     

    List of RTX 3080 laptops: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Comprehensive-list-of-all-laptops-featuring-the-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-3080-Laptop-GPU-along-with-corresponding-TGPs.517977.0.html

     

    Let us know what you chose. Good luck with price & delivery 😉

  7. On 10/28/2021 at 2:15 AM, 3D-Pangel said:

    Well...the right thing to do given that it appears ePortfolio is not up-to-date with its users (given how many people cannot log in) is to extend the 11/1 deadline until every last support case for a new password has been addressed.  As their Help team is backlogged, this is the only fair thing to do.

     

    I used to always think Maxon would do the right thing for all its customers...but that confidence has been shaken as of late.

     

    Dave

    To be fair, the support handled my ticket fast and uncomplicated. That said, it is strange that they rather send mails with direct links to those that open a ticket, instead of fixing ePoirtfolio, or sending a mail with those links to all customers in the first place.

  8. So, a dumb question: There are only serial numbers until version 20, right? At least my portfolio does not contain one for r21, although I got a R21 license.

    Does this mean that R21 (and newer) licenses will continue to be managed through MyMaxon? So MyMaxon is not shuting down and we will be able to download also R21 from there? And I will never need a serial number for R21 in the future?

     

    This might be straight forward for anyone installing C4D on a regular basis, but it is kind of confusing for me and I would have wished for more information from Maxon.

  9. Hi,

     

    I already downloaded my installer some time ago when this came up in the other thread. But I did not save my serial number back then. So I just wanted to do this know. But ePortfolio does not seem to know my account... I already tried to reset my password but did not receive an email yet (shouldn't this be automated?). Also as a I am using Cinema less and less I am not that deept into the system, so I have to ask: Is MyMaxon different from ePortfolio? Because I am still logged into MyMaxon (and thought ePortfolio would have the same credentials) but can't find serial numbers there.... Over the last years I just used MyMaxon to release my license, but it's been some time since I needed the actual serial number...

     

    A fair move would have been to actively contact the customer and tell them about this change to come, and maybe - ok, this is a weird thought - add some instructions. But why should Maxon do better then Insydium? Ok, rant mode off.

     

    EDIT: Yeah, was my fault, the reset email was detected as spam. Reset worked fine now. But as others reported, download does not work at all, at least in Chrome. The links are more or less dead. And Edge sees R20 (win) as unsecure download, and gives me a 404 for R19 and R18. I also submitted a ticket.

  10. 41 minutes ago, kmls said:

    than look for notebook with 3050 or 3060 if possible. at least rtx 30xx more recent and of course have rt support. 1650 cards not have rtx support so there 3050 will better than 1650 because of rtx support.

     

    for example:

     

    https://www.amazon.com/Acer-AN515-55-53E5-i5-10300H-GeForce-Keyboard/dp/B092YHJGMN/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=msi+notebook&qid=1633456767&refinements=p_36%3A80000-90000&rnid=2421885011&sr=8-11

    Well, a 3050 sits between the 1650Ti and the 1660Ti concerning speed and has only 4GB. It is much slower then an RTX 2060, which would also have 6GB Ram. The 3050 Ti only improves speed a bit, but still is behind the 1660Ti:

    Of course, the 16xx do not have raytracing so it depends on the renderer used if a 30xx makes more sense even if it is slower, but I have a feeling raytracing on the 3060 won't be fun either.

    I would prefer the 2060 over the 3050 or 3050Ti in any case. You get better rasterization performance, but still have raytracing support, and it would fit the price range.Another possible buy:

    XMG Apex with RTX 2060 Refresh, 897€, with good upgrading options

    https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08PZCDF11?m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&tag=idealode-aw1-21&ascsubtag=8Ym7_-0eP6-NJmQ1ypfMmg&th=1&psc=1

     

    The 3060 is of course better than the 2060, but I doubt you will get a laptop with an RTX 3060 in the specified price range.

  11. For that bufget you will have to go for a GTX 1650 or 1660 Ti. I would really go for the 1660Ti, Acer Nitro might be a good candidate.

    https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/200734887_-nitro-5-an517-51-59jn-acer.html

     

    Laptops with 1650ti are only marginally cheaper, but much slower.

    https://www.x-kom.de/asus-tuf-gaming-15-6-fullhd-ryzen-5-4600h-8gb-512gb-ssd-gtx-1650ti-win-10-bonfire-black-90nr03m2-m04930-alle-notebook-ar54714

     

    Below 800€ would have to be a special offer, or even with a worse GPU.

     

    For around 1000€ you could get a good XMG from last year with an RTX 2060:

    https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/notebooks/gaming+notebooks/geforce+rtx/xmg+core+15+m20gnh+703050

    Personally I would try to get these extra bucks and go for this one.

     

     

    Good luck,

    Chris

     

  12. 21 hours ago, Cairyn said:

    ... and I somehow doubt that we will see another Cycles4D in 2021.

     

    Well, I am also a bit sour on this, and suspected they are holding back updates until the last perpetual maintanance periods end. But to be fair, they always updated cycles only once or twice per year. So I checked and found this timeline:

     

    https://insydium.ltd/about/insydium-timeline/

     

    and indeed it seems they always updated in march. So I guess we already got what we paid for with the currend maintanance.

     

    I am pretty sure they will update to Cycles X, but it just made it into Blender 3.0 alpha so I guess this would take some time anyways. I doubt they will remove Cycles from their package as it allows for a very deep integration with X-Particles. But you are probably right that it just didn't pay as a standalone product. And the few poor soules that have bought it are just a collateral damage 😕

     

  13. 22 minutes ago, Mike A said:

     

    When Scene nodes were introduced last year the big feature was speed and ability to handle large numbers of objects. Remember that demo video with millions of swarming objects?  Remember also that 'Scene nodes are incompatible with the object manager' etc?

    It seems to me that 'Capsules' are just a temporary mash up to stick the two things together. What's the likely result? The speed and capacity of the old Object Manager - not Neutron. Overall value: zero.

    Well, it may hit performance walls at some point yes, but for some uses it might still be usefull. And as I said I do not consider this a feature yet. It is still just something to play around, but since I always wanted C4D to move forward with resopect to procedural modelling, this is still the most interesting stuff that happened to C4D in a long time. I didn't say this justifies raising the version number by a full digit 😉

  14. I am just watching RocketLassos video

    The GUI stuff is nice and all, but after 6 minutes he already has to show how cool it is to change the layout and palettes... two times... which I was able to do exactly the same way with R7. Then there is some other stuff which is not exactly exciting (ok, this is extremely subjective and I guess there are people hwo might find them usefull), but there are two nice things:

    - Presets: being a programmer myself, I don't think this is a big thing, but it seems extremely usefull. Nice!

    - Track modifier seems pretty powerfull

    - Capsules: this seems to make the nodes realy usefull and it seems there are new nodes as well (sphere packing). But what strikes me is the extreme similarity to how this is implemented in Blender (even the new spline nodes are more or less the same what was recently shown in Blender 3). But this is not a bad thing. The nodes are realy the only thing that makes me sad I am stuck with R21

     

    So these things are nice, but given that the whole node stuff is still a demo, and each step on the raod to being a real feature is now called a feature on its own, this is still really thin. 

     

     

  15. Uff, maybe there is more meat to it, but judging by this page and the two sentences by the CEO regarding R25 this is even less ambitious then I feared it would be. 

    - new modern UI: hell, the UI is not Cinemas weak point

    - better spline Import: yeah, might be important for some users

    - capsules: does this mean, this is not a tech preview any more?

     

    And they didn't manage to update the page behind the "See More" link?

    Well maybe watching some videos on it later this evening will enlighten me 😕

  16. Ok, here is a condensed feature list: https://www.maxon.net/en/article/maxon-fall-product-releases-offer-a-wealth-of-rich-features-and-compatibility

     

    "The most intuitive 3D application interface just got even better with a new modern skin, user interface enhancements and an expansive preset system for optimizing your workflow. All-new Spline Import options allow users to easily use Illustrator, PDF and SVG vector artwork in their 3D scenes. Capsules allow anyone to tap into the power and flexibility of Cinema 4D's Scene Node system, with plug-in-like features directly in the Classic Object Manager. And the New Spline and Data Integration functionality can be used to build powerful Capsule Assets"

     

     

  17. Would still like to know what cuases this. I just did a Windiws uodate today, I am now on Win 10 Home 21H1, Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3530.0. This is an Asus Laptop (G14 from 2021), maybe there are some parallels....

    I guess the underlying problem is not Maxons's fault, but it is not good if the licensing mechanism depends on such stuff. Feels quite unreliable 😕

  18. Hi, 

    I just wanted to activate C4D R21 on my other laptop to be able to play with it on vacation. It used to work on that machine, but it's been some time since I used it. So when starting Cinema, the License Manager greets me with the message shown below (sorry only in german...). It doesn't make a difference if I press yes or no, the manager stays the same... I love this online license stuff... Really great start into the vacation :-(

    Anyone got an idea?

     

    Thx,

    Chris

    c4D_licenseManager_ScriptError.jpg

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