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Cinema 4D: X-Particles and Redshift Techniques

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2-3 hours
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Explore intermediate to advanced techniques used in the Redshift workflow for X-Particles, the particle and VFX system for MAXON Cinema 4D.

Syllabus

Introduction

Level up with X-Particles and Redshift
What you should know
Workflow tips

1. Initial Particle Setups

Scene walk-through
Follow Surface setup
The importance of groups
Particle collisions
Passing particles
Atomic particles
Trails
Particle constraints
Incubating to infection

2. User Data in Redshift

Data decisions and caching
User Data nodes
Using color data to drive shaders
Rendering trails and splines
Using scalar data
One shader to rule all groups

3. Explosia FX

Creating smoke sims with Explosia
Caching sims
Importing VDBs to Redshift
Building VDB shaders
Rendering volumes

4. Atom Materials

Base Atom shader
Building a vertex map setup
Driving displacement with vertex maps
Using vertex maps to drive shaders
Vertex map workflow tips and tricks

5. Final Rendering

Final scene assembly
Environment and cameras
Redshift post FX
Render time sampling
Final render settings and EXRs

Conclusion

Explore further with X-Particles and Redshift

Taught by

Ryan McCauley

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