C4D Fundamentals | 06 - Introduction to Lighting & Rendering in Cinema4D

[@haavardant]

Started using C4D after 15 years (on and off) of using 3dsmax. Your tutorials made the transition smooth as butter, especially the ones on modelling. Just what I needed. Thanks a lot!

[@armondtanz]

Ah man. This guy needs to stop what hes doing and just produce more of these tutorials. learned so much. Bravo.

[@madnalab3901]

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[@JohanKJIP]

Been using C4D for a while now but did not realize how little I knew about lighting!

[@Isaac-Brody]

Thanks for all of your tutorials. Your teaching style is some of the clearest and easy to understand tutorials out there. There's a number of things that I didn't realize I'd missed that you gave me a good understanding of. I hope you create of these lessons soon.

[@LeckerHamster]

Hi Christoph. I'm using C4D for quite a while now and still learned many new things. One of the best tutorial series around, thanks a lot and keep on going. Greetings from Austria :)

[@c4dfundamentals]

+LeckerHamster Thanks / Danke ;)

[@thephilosopher7173]

Omg....I literally spent 2 days trying to find lessons like this! Thank you Christoph! I'll gladly donate some money to support!

[@c4dfundamentals]

Thank you Orion ! Glad you found my tutorials! I would really appreciate it, thanks again!

[@rodolphopassosweb]

Bro, this is the best tutorial i ever watched about cinema 4d. A huge thanks of a fan from Brazil :)

[@Tackleqb]

Extremely helpful tutorials. I am learning C4D right now. Thank you good good sir 👍

[@datapenguin]

That raytracing history is crazy interesting. Excellent job dude!

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[@rafiohero1]

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[@MrRic716]

Awesome tutorial. You are really good for example with the origins of certain terms. Hats off.

[@gatopardo849]

Great tutorials, not even working in 3DS for years I have come to understand the light behaviour as well as I did watching your explanations.

[@anthonythorne8708]

Looking forward to the next video. Very detailed, indepth, and informative. Excellent work!

[@thedesignersl]

Great Video Christoph! You are absolutely amazing teacher! Please continue this tutorial series. Learning Lot with each episode.. Thank You.

[@jordinasanchez8785]

Really useful tutorial for basic understanding on C4D lighting! Thanks so much.

[@MrAbnegative]

Thanks so much for providing a hard to find tutorial on such a critical topic. Filled a big gap in my learning!

[@supriyobiswas6313]

Thanks so much for providing a tutorial on such a critical topic. i wish i could find matrial and shader.

[@lombaseggl666]

Hey Christoph, thank you very much für all the work you put in your tutorials. They're really helpful! Just one little thing which was really important to me in the detailed settings of the area light: There's a little checkbox wich is called "Show in reflections". This was really a game changer for me and my everyday work. I just mention this, because you said, the detailed settings are pretty much the same for each light type. Nevertheless, keep on doing this great tutorials, i really appreciate it! Cheers Moritz

[@jherem]

Thank you Christoph! Your'e amazing! I have learned much with your tutorials in this days ... it's very useful for me! thanks again!

[@c4dfundamentals]

+JHereM Happy to hear that! :)

[@sarkawtmohammedrahman3185]

Best tutorial I have ever seen, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. April 2020.

[@edwardbrock3850]

Amazing tutorial. Please keep it going. Love your work.

[@alifahmy33]

Looking forward to the next episode. great job

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Thank you very much, i have learned alot from you i hope you continue. I am happy to donate to support you content!!

[@c4dfundamentals]

Thank you so much for your support! More videos coming...

[@vitaslam7411]

i wonder if there will be more advanced tutorial in the future. your tutorials are so inspiring!

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[@DesignbyBK]

Thanks for coming back with really important topic

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Fire!

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Awesome

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You are doing a really great job man! Thank you so much

[@GLYNCURTIS]

Excellent tutorial, solved some long time questions very clearly! cheers

[@kmpoon2550]

Thanks for the tutorial and the lecture. They are so detailed.

[@andilevikani776]

great tutorial, i like the way you explain it. thanks for your effort

[@cerealfede]

awesome for begginers like myself this explained too much, you are the man

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U r a master! Thanks a lot for this very useful video!

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Just simply thank you :)

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Great! Thanks you for made this.

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[@meleecraft]

great video Doe, i appreciate it

[@samyosef]

love the info graphics.

[@kallaz3167]

good tutorial, thank you so much..

[@LeungMac]

thanks for the tutorial. it would have been better if you include the project file or just the model in this tutorial so that people can follow along step by step

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[@davidquejido9903]

so cool thx. please do some animation tutorial also....you have nice pedagogic method. 5 star

[@salmansohail6674]

Hell sir As you did in last that inner circular formation like some how moved in X direction and some how in Y direction. So my my question is that can ve make that inner circular internal another way or can you tell me the another easiest way or methods to do that PLEASE.

[@c4dfundamentals]

I think what I showed is the easiest solution :/ I’ll send you another tutoria later

[@anggimarviansyah1969]

thanks for making it. its helping me to understanding cinema 4d, subscribe

[@multimadiyan]

could you share the model room with us, so that we can also try the things you describe

[@bozonini]

Great video but I was a bit dissapointed because I really wanted to see how you gonna make the inner spiral, but you did just rings instead. =(

[@SayYuith]

Super Amazing Tutorial :)

[@bhanupartapsingh3166]

please make more tutorial on cinema 4d specially on cR21

[@icepirate07]

can you do a series on Arnold renderer?

[@nadhemlouhani6148]

thnx

[@TheTattoomaker3]

i m doing an interiors with no windows !! just depends on artificial lights from c4d ! and when i m using GI & AO i m getting some bad results and taking looong render time for bad results .. please any good settings for such scenes ?!

[@c4dfundamentals]

+chadi g hey, still having trouble? Do you use IR or QMC as primary method? QMC is better but will take much longer. When you use IR, try to activate GI Area Light in your polygon light material illumination settings. And go with Light mapping as secondary method. You have to crank up the samples though in the Render settings. Try some high values, like 512. Either way, artifact free renders will take some time... there is no way around it.

[@lexxandera]

One thing is bugging me. The shadows in the video look way smoother than my own. Did Christoph by any chance set Anit-Aliasing to best, or does the reduced resolution trick my eyes. My ray-traced shadows are very jagged and bumpy.

[@c4dfundamentals]

What happens if you switch to area shadow ?

[@lexxandera]

@@c4dfundamentals Thanks for replying. It looks better but still rough on some edges. the only solution I have is a moderate "best" setting (1x1 - 4x4) instead of geometry. I was thinking that your house geometry might have had an impact too. I am not sure. Edit: render-time is only 1/8 longer with that AA-setting compared to geometry.

[@c4dfundamentals]

And you use infinite light as light source ?

[@lexxandera]

@@c4dfundamentals Hey. I have watched another video about shadows and you can see what I mean at 11:24 (watch?v=95tsBhrmlnY). So that is why I wondered why your shadows look so smooth without AA. Edit: yes, infinite light source.

[@c4dfundamentals]

@@lexxandera Yep it was the Anti-Aliasing. I checked the old file. AA is set to 'Best' 1x1 - 4x4'

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[@c4dfundamentals]

Looking forward to it!! :p

[@alinunrafab8661]

make a tutorial with materials please

[@MatureTogether]

@47:10

[@apoloprod.4393]

it free?

[@TMD_Produktion]

How to hide the lights in render?

[@c4dfundamentals]

You have to add a compositing tag to your light (right-click on object › Render Tags › Compositing). Then disable 'Seen by Camera'.

[@TMD_Produktion]

@@c4dfundamentals I tried that. It worked for the HDRI but not for the lights. I don‘t know why

[@c4dfundamentals]

What kind of lights (Polygon, Spotlight, Area Light etc) and which renderer are you using? And what do you want to achieve? That the light emits light, but you don't see it's shape?

[@TMD_Produktion]

@@c4dfundamentals I am using physical renderer. I want to light my scene with pbs area lights. If I do what you just wrote, I still see the lights in my frame.

[@c4dfundamentals]

Ah ok. Click on the light, than in the attributes go to Details and uncheck "Show in Render". That should work now then...

[@nazmiemre]

please add files

[@MatureTogether]

47:10

[@c4dfundamentals]

Thanatcha Poobubpakarnchana Mhh?

[@alexgrebenaha1351]

Everything is ok, except the Global Illumination, not Klobal m.f so annoying me.Thanks a lot.

[@torajeshjoseph]

ahm Ahm

[@ttvd94]

Of course in the real world it's not red, green and blue as primary colors, but red, yellow and blue

[@c4dfundamentals]

true that! I think additive vs. subtractive color mixing....

[@MDksa123]

great tutorial the content is good, but you say UMMM alot and it gets annoying tbh

[@resinds.p4898]

tbh ?

[@busyslothy]

bad : 1 hour

[@mohammedgeniwi790]

Thanks you so much