Cinema 4D Tutorial - Intro to HDRI Lighting Using Global Illumination

[@katerok76]

EJ, you're my hero for many years. Your selflessness, positiveness and willingness to share priceless knowledge - just invaluable for me. Thank you a lot!

[@eyedesyn]

Aedd! Thanks so much for your kind words. It's people like you that encourages me to keep making tutorials and wanting to help others learn! Appreciate you and your support! :)

[@rovastar1406]

Aedd Ginvael Yeah, and he is clear, easy to follow and understand and ofcourse funny and pleasure to watch/listen him :D

[@AbubakerDawood]

indeed !! well said dude

[@PascalDickhoff]

I think it takes guts and will to create free learning resources. Many people don't want to share their knowledge because they fear others may get better. Thank you!

[@AlenaHovorkova]

.. still very new to 3D/C4D (only slowly discovering all of these basic concepts - and still feeling a bit overwhelmed, sometimes) - but - again (as with all your other tuts) - I again learnt so much from this single video .. Thanks!

[@eyedesyn]

You'll get it with practice and getting more familiarity! You can do it! And I'll help the best I can! :) Thanks for watching and the kind comment!

[@oscarschade]

I am still trying to learn more about lightning in C4D. This was very helpful. Thnx EJ!

[@eyedesyn]

Very welcome! Glad you found it helpful!

[@halofusion]

EJ, the true gentleman replying to a lot of comments, nice job man. Thanks for a very helpful tutorial

[@eyedesyn]

If people take the time to write to me, I like to make sure I make the time to respond! Thanks for your kind comments and watching! :)

[@eyedesyn]

If people take the time to write to me, I like to make sure I make the time to respond! Thanks for your kind comments and watching! :)

[@MiseriTrack1]

Awesome work as always EJ. Ya know another cool way I found to increase or decrease the intensity of your HDRI is by selecting Illumination in the material's property. Then adjusting the Generate GI "Strength".

[@eyedesyn]

Good call! Definitely another good alternative!

[@luisouthern]

EJ, you're the best. Your tutorials help me a lot.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Gustavo! Always love hearing that my videos help somebody out there! :)

[@MrPada143]

omgggg thank you. The default light drove me crazy. You helped me alot. My hero!!!!!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks! Yeah the Default Light is easy to forget about tucked in the Options! Glad you found it helpful!

[@johnalbertson79]

"In real life you have a lot of bounces in your scene". - So true. When I added light mapping to the basement it made a huge difference. :) LOL - Your tutorials are always informative and entertaining.

[@eyedesyn]

:) Glad you find them entertaining as well as informative! Thanks for watching, Tim!

[@discreetfire]

I love your teaching style!! SUBSCRIBED!!!!

[@akvh]

Finally !! lighting tutorial !! thank you so much !!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Akshay! Hope you like this one! Appreciate you watching!

[@AbubakerDawood]

you are indeed such a hero bro !! i'm really new to c4d but i have learn quit good way because I've watching your videos in pre learning time !! thank you !!

[@eyedesyn]

Suhweeet! Thanks so much for watching and glad you're learning C4D!!

[@BIOSChip67]

Awesome tutorial. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!

[@luemi]

This is the best tutorial ever, there´s so much info, I always go back to this one, huge thanks!! :D

[@eyedesyn]

Fantastic! Love hearing comments like this! Thanks for watching and glad you learned so much from this video, Lu! Cheers!

[@paulvansommeren]

EJ! You could make the sky a chlid of the texture sphere, and rotate the sphere instead of the texture. Set the sphere to "not visible in render" and the sky to "visible" which'll save some time.

[@eyedesyn]

Very true! Thanks for the handy tip!

[@cdeftones]

I actually leave the blurriness of the reflect to AE... I just do a multipass and blur the reflect inside AE, that way i can lower the render time. just sharing. Keep up, lov your vids man. Cheers from Brazil

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Joao! That's one way to do it, for sure! Or just buy Octane! :)

[@brunocfer2]

EJ, any plans to take some shots at the Render Wars? Would love to see you tackling some Arnold/Redshift/Octane renders...

[@eyedesyn]

Definitely! In fact this week I believe I got an Octane video coming! :) Stay tuned!

[@ErElBabl]

Again a great tut. Now I understand this Global Ilumination :-)

[@eyedesyn]

Glad to hear! Thanks for watching!

[@赵月望]

It's really helpful for me, thanks.

[@eyedesyn]

Happy to hear it! Thanks very much for watching!

[@waynekiplinger5683]

Excellent short tuts - very effective - helping accelerate my knowledge and skill level - thank you

[@eyedesyn]

glad to hear it! thanks so much for the kind comment!

[@QuinnFilmsBTS]

great tutorial.

[@cghem]

This means a lot, especially when working on real projects! Thankyou for your Knowledge

[@eyedesyn]

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching, glad you're finding the tutorials useful!

[@jeffreyboulton9299]

agree with max triet - thx much!

[@arvidjohansson9554]

Great tutorial, as always.

[@mayykara]

thank u , i always want to know how this thing (GI) work but can't figure out . this helped a lot

[@eyedesyn]

Was it helpful? Hope that this tutorial is useful for those who have never used GI before! Thanks for watching!

[@SoloNecr0zis]

Duuuude I'm sitting here messing with global illumination and wondering how to get a proper result, get frustrated, open KZbin and what do I see? Thank you so much for this ! Gil

[@eyedesyn]

Love the timing sometimes! :) Hope this is helpful for you!

[@kellykurtzdesign]

EJ - this is sooooo helpful, thank you so much for sharing. I feel like I have a much better handle on materials and lighting!!!

[@eyedesyn]

So awesome to hear, Kelly! Glad you found this helpful and you're understanding materials and lighting more! Happy to help!

[@petrmentberger5393]

great video man

[@SkyScar7]

u grant my wish man. I always wanted to know more about lighting and render. thanks

[@eyedesyn]

Awesomeeee!! Glad I could help, hope you like this one!

[@GuidetotheBuddhistPath]

Thank you EJ!

[@eyedesyn]

Thank YOU for watching :)

[@staytuned5033]

very good tutorial. may i ask what setup you have? (cpu,..)

[@eyedesyn]

Nothing good, I have an 8 core Mac Pro trash can

[@redvivid]

Your tutorials are lit! In the slang way.

[@eyedesyn]

Heyooo! Thanks haha

[@jerrymarkham3081]

I'm using C4D R13 but don't see HDRI in lighting set ups.

[@jerrymarkham3081]

I think I found it but its organized differently.

[@robertoperaza7685]

Learnt a lot / Thanks!! you got my like

[@filmkaar-nitin]

Thank you. Is there any way to turn off the shadows cast by HDRi and use HDRI only for reflections? I am trying to use the compositing tag on the HDRi Sky object - but unchecking 'Cast Shadow' does not seem to work?

[@SlobboVideo]

Why aren't you using the progressive setting on the physical renderer to speed up the render for previewing purposes? Great tutorial btw.

[@eyedesyn]

I tried that but it didnt speed it up too much, and the results looked pretty bad so wouldnt have helped for demo purposes.

[@julienboreau]

Helllo EJ ! Great and smart tutorial as always ! Can u give us some informations about GI and Animation ? Impossible for me to get some "non vibrating lights" :-/

[@Maruszan]

how does he have the "View" window up. It'a not in the window menu. Also how are his results rendering so fast? What's the steps for this? This was already setup at the beginning of tut.

[@Reitbajdesign]

Good tutorials! It was a doubt I had alwayd had, I'm beginners on C4d and I wondered if it was possible illuminate only with hdri's? I see that it' s possible, right? Congratulations for your tutorials man!

[@eyedesyn]

Very possible but not always fast! Thanks for watching!

[@RAWWERS]

this is wonderful. thank you so much for your great way of share your knowledge :) but whats about rendering animations with GI turned on? in the past (not physical render) i was fighting against flickering and stuff like that. Maybe you can make another lesson for this ?

[@eyedesyn]

Oh man, that's a whole other subject for sure. And a long render! :)

[@byronfaux]

I really like this. Helps a lot. What I don't get is how your scene is setup. I am not sure where to place the nature lighting, looks like you have one under something called Sky. How do I create that, so I can place it there?

[@eyedesyn]

Not sure what you're speaking of? I show my scene setup in the tutorial and how I light it using the Sky object and HDR image.

[@Jzeaser]

hi EJ.... I've learned a lot from your videos over the months but currently am baffled about trying to lessen the hdri image reflection on glass... I've tried lessening the reflection on the glass material but its still the same as it is at 100% and the compositing tag checking off "seen by reflection" but it still shows

[@mustafahalc2460]

great! i like your teaching style. have a nice life

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Mustafa! Really appreciate the support!

[@jbmocean399]

EJ! love the dress, you have to tell me where you got it!

[@thevfxwizard7758]

Any material that is non-metal has a reflection on the greyscale. There should not be any color in the reflection in normal instances to make it look more realistic. Great tut though!

[@raunar.7036]

I push blue like button :D

[@eyedesyn]

haha nice!

[@mariacarvalho7459]

thank you so much for this tut!! it's wonderfull :D i have a question, in an architectual visualization once i turn on GI my sky stops to render, turning that area all black! why does that happen :(

[@eyedesyn]

Hey Maria! Thanks for watching! Not sure what the issue would be...do you have an HDRI image applied to the Sky Object? Are you trying to light an interior?

[@mariacarvalho7459]

eyedesyn hey! Thank you very much for the response. I don't know what I did but it's working now

[@markvogelaar]

Hi nice tutorial. What is your PC setup? CPU and GPU? :) Rendering looks fast

[@GodDamnShr00b]

Hey it's me again, sometimes I get some bad GI "Stains", how do GI Portals help and what are they exactly? Thanks in advance, always looking forward to your new videos, especially on rigging and IK ; )

[@eyedesyn]

Depends on what you mean, are you talking about splotchiness on the objects? That would be fixed by upping the GI samples. GI Portals are used in conjunction with objects, like Planes, not HDRI's. There's a good description of them in the C4D Help file!

[@GodDamnShr00b]

Ahhhh how to I describe them... It's something like when I tried to use photometric light in Maya with Mentalray and not having enough photons thus getting a very splotchy light around the edges. I think upping the GI samples are going to do the trick! Thanks a lot and keep 'em coming!

[@eyedesyn]

Yep, that sounds like upping the samples should solve that!

[@krish951]

great

[@mohammedmohamdy8885]

I really enjoy your funny and helpful tutorials but I hope you make them PDFs to be easier to understand! ! thanks

[@eyedesyn]

Hey Mohammed, glad you enjoy the tutorials but they're a lot of work to put together and I have no plans of making PDF's of them, so you'll have to learn via video format!

[@mohammedmohamdy8885]

eyedesyn OK thanks

[@yaarghul6929]

EJ, i trying to render my scene with default settings, but i've got black screen in result and also i don't have shadows from object on both view screens. Please help! Thank you

[@eyedesyn]

Sounds like you aren't using GI with a Sky Object?

[@pnvgordinho]

Thank you for the tutorial. Great as always. Could I make a suggestion / request for a tutorial?. I don't know if its possible to achieve but I´ve seen some of your tutorials when you work around materials and Im trying to make a material to mimic zx spectrum graphics and with no luck. I tried with sketch and cell shader but I can't get it right. Do you think you could give it a try?. I also searched the web and found nothing. Thank you.

[@eyedesyn]

Hey Pedro! Not entirely sure what you mean by the XZ Spectrum Graphics? COuld you point me to a link?

[@perceptivemonkey]

Great stuff, THANKS!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks very much for watching!

[@RaymondReise]

how can I get the HDRI lightning with out having to render the sky texture?

[@mbarekgzize]

thnks alot

[@eyedesyn]

you bet, thanks for watching!

[@Awwwsheeeeeeit]

Hey EJ, amazing tutorials! Have you ever considered creating a series on C4D for beginners? I would love to follow along but I have no idea whats going on at times haha.

[@eyedesyn]

Totally! Stay tuned!

[@maximilianyuen]

thanks for the great tutorial. but one critical problem, using your GI setting I got inconsistent in animation, the flickering is way too obvious and impossible to not notice. I thought it's because of my rough reflection that cause it but i can certain that it's the GI problem after a few test. Google a bit and this seems a common problem and yet no obvious solution other than QMC, which is like 10 times slower with lots of grain at reasonable rendering time.... But I am using your setting on a dark room with lots of TV screen, the screens being the only light source. So is this setting only viable for HDRI / physical sky light setting but not from illimination texture? Thanks!

[@eyedesyn]

I'd up the IR or QMC samples if you're seeing that flickering. Also upping those Adaptive samples as well and testing to see how far you need to push it!

[@maximilianyuen]

so I should not used IR+light map, but QMC + light map?

[@eyedesyn]

Id do a test with high IR samples and see if that works, if it doesnt, maybe QMC is the best route! Keep me updated on your results!

[@loxel8110]

Hello EJ, I've been learning from you and recently i ran into a problem is that when i open GI using Irradiance Cache + Secondary Method, render in animation there's noticeable flicker all the time, i try to fix it by click "full animation"or crank up the sample count + quality, or by click Identical Noise Distribution,none of them really working, the problem still remains, I know its sounds impossible but is there anyway to decrease the flicker and solve this?

[@eyedesyn]

What are you using for Secondary Method? I typically use Light Mapping and crank up the Path Count, hopefulyl that would help!

[@adhi_nugroho]

link download HDRI Lighting please.

[@DoctorDiscoCZ]

There could'nt be better timing for this video than now

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks! Hope you like it!

[@Tayroneosaurus]

Nintendo switchhh Damn i wish i had Cinema 4D. i can't get my demo to work with after effects cc for whatever reason :/

[@eyedesyn]

Cinema 4D Lite? If you go to File > New > Cinema 4D File, does it open up Cinema 4D Lite?

[@Tayroneosaurus]

Oh hey it does! :D it didn't open when i started the program called 'Cinema 4D Demo', but cinema 4d lite works. thanks for that! :)

[@eyedesyn]

Yeah it's weird that you need to open Cinema 4D through After Effects but that's the way it is! :)

[@nmkrios6551]

Is it normal if rendering with HDRI and low settings completely murders my CPU?

[@eyedesyn]

Normal if you're running an old computer setup or lacking RAM/slow GFX card!

[@keithkool]

35:56 Good tip. Thanks!

[@eyedesyn]

You bet, thanks!

[@Ani-zo8il]

i need a download for hdri studio

[@eyedesyn]

You can get it on greyscalegorilla.com/store

[@bazinjest6676]

Nintendo Switch inspired design? Looks like a pair of neon joy cons.

[@eyedesyn]

That's precisely the inspiration for the design!

[@nayaniteixeira5212]

Very good! Inscribed on your channel to receive more wonderful content like this. Greetings from Brazil ;)

[@juanocybe]

somehow i get a very dark render with hdri`s dunno why

[@eyedesyn]

Need to make sure your GI settings are strong enough to illuminate the scene

[@ViZiOMusic]

best

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks!

[@albertsitoe7340]

"This scene is lit"

[@eyedesyn]

Gotta throw some lame puns in there somewhere!

[@CopycatStudiosLA]

Hi ej - really hope you can help me with this cos nobody answered at all the forums i posted. I have shadow turned on in this light and it is placed inside a box with an opening - but the visible light seems to be penetrated from the wall as you can still see the cone rather than a square cone. what am i doing wrong? tinypic.com/r/i77h9l/9 tinypic.com/r/2hn5bm9/9

[@JoeyNowlin]

Your camera is a little low quality. Personally, i would recommend an upgrade before going on face cam

[@eyedesyn]

Oh I am aware, don't worry, I am working on it! :)

[@djblast101]

Ayyye it's lit lol

[@eyedesyn]

Heyooooo!

[@bhagyeshdutt7701]

👍👍👍

[@mangacz]

i would kill for a teeth like urs)))))

[@eyedesyn]

So many people crushin on my teeths! :)

[@rebelite7034]

Using this tutorial I made my own similar version to this HUD kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWGoZ4WZithgrtk Hope you like it!

[@eyedesyn]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!!!

[@leoalmeida1572]

EJ! Come to Brazil give some Master Classes, man!!!!!