Architectural animation in C4D

[Sketchrender]

Hi

I am at present doing a model in formz and bringing it into c4D to render with Radiosity, and this I have no problem with, as it brings in everything fine.

What want to do next is render an animation of the same, as it flies around the rooms and the exterior.

What is the simpliest way to render an animation as I have not gone near that end of it at all.

I will probable do it in sections and fade them into each other.

 

Can a camera be attached to a spline and simple follow the path.

What is the best way to cut down the rendering time, is there a way to bake textures once is all set .

 

It will be out-putted to cd as a quick time or avi in the end.

 

 

any help would be great.

 

regards

phil

[Frosty]

what's the length and what hardware do you have? Poly count? Light sources?

[STRAT]

yup, cameras can be attatched to splines.

 

and i wouldn't bother baking personally either as textures in c4d dont usually slow down rendering times a great deal.

 

what slows down render times in c4d is radiosity/gi and sharp reflections.

 

some more specifics about ur scene would be usefull

[Sketchrender]

Hi thanks for the swift reply.

The length will only be about 3 or 4 6-10 second views.

The exterior wis set amounst trees a lot of them, so help with that would be great and were to find tutorials on large amount of tree mapping is not easy.

 

The interios will be the usual furniture nothing too glam, a few table lights and natural light too streaming in , as it's the best way to light anything.

 

I use a hp workstation xw4000, with 1 gb of memory, and a nvidia 780 graphics card with 128 built in, and 36 gb scusi harddrive.

 

Enclose a test render of the outside with no textures

 

So any further advise would be great.

phil

 

ps. I brought in a 100mb file dxf the other day from formz, it was full of furniture and the it c4d handled it no problem.

It's a gem of a program it really is.

[STRAT]

that model with those specs should provide no render headaches what so ever.

 

just texture it up, bung in the lights, set up any possible radiosity solutions then hit the render button. then start optomising.

[Sketchrender]

Thanks for that.

Can you tell me how to set up a camera path so can get the animation in motion, and what setting should the rendering be set too.

I know there is an animation setting in the rendering, what would you use.

thanks again

 

phil

[Frosty]

Can you tell me how to set up a camera path so can get the animation in motion

 

This is described in detail on pgs 616-617 of the v8 manual.