Advanced Render 3 Module - for Windows or Mac

Take your 3D scenes to the next dimension of reality with MAXON CINEMA 4D's Advanced Render module.

While the standard renderer produces outstanding results in little time, the Advanced Render module provides advanced features like Global Illumination and Caustics to achieve ultimate realism.

Renderings will look even more realistic with Global Illumination (incl. HDRI), surface and volume caustics, highlights, glow and enhanced depth-of-field. SubSurface Scattering provides realistic translucent surfaces for the simulation of wax or skin.

With the integrated Ambient Occlusion feature, Advanced Render uses the environment to simulate shadow casting. This would otherwise only be possible with Global Illumination. This speeds up workflow immensely, which is especially important when a deadline is breathing down your neck. With SubPolygonDisplacement your scenes will reach a level of detail never experience before. Highly detailed scenes can be created using just a handful of polygons and rendered with awesome speed thanks to the highly efficient displacement algorithm. Since details are first displayed during rendering when using SubPolygonDisplacement, you not only save precious memory - working in the editor is much easier as well.

SKY and PyroCluster
Advanced Render also contains SKY - an amazing tool for the easy creation of 2D or 3D volumetric clouds and effects. SKY lets you create to your heart’s desire. A collection of 50 presets helps you quickly find the fitting atmospheric environment for your scene. But that’s not all: SKY lets you create any weather condition imaginable, “paint” clouds, and even correctly simulate the sun, moon and stars. SKY even lets you accurately create rainbows.

PyroCluster is a volumetric shading system that uses particles to simulate smoke, dust, fire and other similar effects. Combined with the power of Thinking Particles and CINEMA 4D's default particle system, PyroCluster can create truly amazing special effects.

Global Illumination

Raytracing simulates most physical properties like reflection and refraction, but lacks support for indirect lighting. In the real world, every object reflects light onto surrounding objects - much of the light in most rooms is reflected from the floor, ceiling, walls and furniture.

The Advanced Render Module provides a radiosity solution based on Global illumination to visualize this transmission of light between objects.

The Advanced Rendering module's radiosity solution is fast and easy to set up compared with other alternatives. You can control each material's illumination strength and type, and a variety of rendering controls allows you to find the best compromise between the accuracy and speed of your render.

MAXON CINEMA 4D's Advanced Render module makes it easier than ever to render realistically.

If your 3D tasks require real-world results, count on CINEMA 4D to deliver them.

Caustics

Caustics provide even more realism to your 3D images by simulating the hyper-focusing of light as it reflects off of surfaces or within the volume of an object. Caustic effects, like the reflection of light from the face of a watch or on the bottom of a swimming pool, are easy to create with the Advanced Render module.

To calculate caustics, the Advanced Render module actually fires photons into your scene. As these electronic rays of light get focused and distorted, the rendering engine displays the lighting effect in the image. MAXON CINEMA 4D can calculate the caustic effects on a surface or within a volume. Caustic transmission, like illumination, can be adjusted within each material's parameters. Additionally you can determine which lights generate caustics and the falloff of the effect from each light. Like radiosity, the caustics engine provides several rendering parameters that can be tweaked to optimize render times and image quality.

By accurately displaying the effects of light as it interacts with specific materials, caustics can add yet another level of realism to your scene.

SubPolygon Displacement

With Subpolygon Displacement (SPD) you do not need to subdivide your object into high- poly-count memory killers in order to create awesome displacement effects.

SPD offers intelligent and efficient algorithms to subdivide geometry as needed for rendering. Your editor remains fast and render times stay short - even without a big render farm and high-end equipment.

The mountains in this movie arise from a plane with only 20x20 polygons. Save memory, render time and maybe the day

Subsurface Scattering

Renders will look more realistic than ever before with the addition of subsurface scattering. This amazing feature simulates the scattering of light beneath the surface of objects to more accurately represent materials such as wax, fluids, jewels, organic materials and skin. Subsurface scattering is implemented in the Advanced Render module as a standard 2D shader for ease of use and integration with other MAXON CINEMA 4D features.

Ambient Occlusion

Ambient Occlusion (i.e. the blocking of ambient light by neighboring surfaces) is a new method with which realistic shadows can be quickly rendered in Advanced Render. The lighting of neighboring surfaces will be occluded – the closer the surface, the greater the degree of occlusion.

Until now, a realistic simulation of this natural phenomenon was only possible with the use of Global Illumination. A major disadvantage of GI, though, was the long time it often took to render. Although GI still has numerous advantages, a near realistic casting of shadows is often sufficient.

Ambient Occlusion can be created in one of two ways in MAXON CINEMA 4D: Either as a shader for the entire scene (or individual objects) that is calculated during rendering, or as a "baked" texture. In both cases, render times are noticeably shorter than with GI, with comparable shadow quality.

Ambient Occlusion can also be used to "hide" objects. Your scene looks a little too clean? Well, the Ambient Occlusion shader offers several settings that let you add "dirt" to your objects' seams and edges.

SKY - The Heavens Have Never Been So Near!

You will reach the same conclusion once you have taken a look at Advanced Render’s SKY.

Create realistic skies and atmospherics in the blink of an eye. Whether as a 2D background or as 3D volumetric clouds, SKY lets you do it all. Meeting a deadline is not a problem with the help of SKY's 50 presets.

You can use the numerous available settings to create your own fantastic skies. You can define colors, how your clouds should look, even the rays of the sun and its glare. But there is more: You can also accurately create rainbows and even define any location or time zone in which your simulation should take place!

With SKY you can accurately simulate the position of the sun, moon and stars. You can paint clouds or stars onto the firmament, place a rainbow on the horizon or let the sun emit beautiful rays with just a few clicks of the mouse.

CineMan - the CINEMA 4D Connection to Renderman

CineMan translates the entire CINEMA 4D scene, including lights and materials to a RenderMan-complaint RIB file. CINEMA 4D shaders are immediately available in RenderMan, and RenderMan shaders can even be used within CINEMA 4D as long as a compatible render engine is selected. Best of all, third-party render engines integrate seamlessly into CINEMA 4D, providing editor rendering and material previews.

CineMan offers the flexibility to allow power users to leverage everything that the RenderMan standard has to offer, making it easy to fit CINEMA 4D into any professional pipeline.

Cineman supports the following RenderMan engines:

• Pixar's RenderMan Pro Server (Win & Mac)
• dna research 3Delight (Win & Mac)
• Sitex Graphics AIR (Win only, software not available for Mac)