How Redshift for C4D to accelerate rendering while noise reduction

Cinema 4D is also very powerful in producing TFD fluids. Below Fox Renderfarm, the powerful render farm and leading cloud rendering services provider in the CG industry, will show the effect of Redshift rendering TFD fluids.In Redshift 2.6.43, when performing real-time preview and TFD calculation, sometimes Cinema4D software crashes. One solution is to restart Cinema 4D software. To adjust and solve the fluid in the default state without Redshift preview. When done, open Redshift Preview again. If you want to resolve the fluid during this period, to avoid Cinema 4D crashing, you must restart Cinema 4D.Because TFD (Turbulence-FD) is compatible with Cinema 4D and can preview the fluid and model interaction in real-time, TFD is almost the first choice for fluid simulation in Cinema 4D. With Redshift, the smoke of the TFD can be illuminated by the scene light, and if it is a simulated flame, the flame itself can provide a true global light illumination effect as a light source.Lighting smoke requires adding Redshift lights and increasing the Contribution Scale in the Volume tab of the lights. At the same time, add the Redshift Volume material to the TFD Container.To render a flame with smoke, you need to set the Scatter and Emission channel sources in the Volume material.How to render TFD smoke fluidAs shown above, there is a solved TFD Container in the scene. Because it is only intended to simulate smoke, only the Temperature channel is opened in the TFD.And the whole scene only uses one Dome Light for lighting. If you want the smoke fluid to be illuminated by the same light source, then you need to increase the value of Contribution Scale under the Volume tab of Dome Light. The higher this value, the more the fluid is affected by the light source.Create a new Redshift Volume material and point it to the TFD Container. Volume material is also very simple to take, no additional nodes are needed, all settings can be done in Redshift Volume.For smoke (non-luminous), the most important are Scatter and Absorption. These two parameters need to be adjusted at the same time.Comparative image of 2 parameters in the official document In the Volume node's Advanced tab, you can adjust the overall transparency and projection of the fluid.In this case, if you want to simulate the light and thin smoke, so lower the New Max in the Density Remap Range, the following is a comparison chart.During real-time preview, the fluid is displayed as dots. It is recommended to perform regional rendering and bucket rendering to observe local fluid details.The parameter that affects the noise of the fluid is mainly the light source that illuminates the fluid (you need to increase the Samples under the Volume label). Therefore, you can increase the sampling of the light source.If you render the fluid separately, you can use the Denoise noise reduction that comes with Redshift, which will be faster.How to separate smoke fluidUnlike ordinary materials and models, Redshift cannot separate fluids through direct AOV. However, the separation effect can be achieved indirectly by separating the lighting effect of the fluid or rendering the fluid alone on a black background.Add Volume Lighting to AOV Manager so that the lighted part of the fluid can be output separately.Volume Lighting effect, the disadvantage is that if there is occlusion in front of the fluid, the resulting smoke effect will be incomplete. It is recommended to render the fluid separately.Separate rendering method: Group other models except fluid, add Redshift Object tags to the group, check Override in Visibility, cancel Primary Ray Visible. This can hide other models, and retain the scene model's interaction with the fluid.Render smoke effects separately How to render flames and smokeA simple burning effect was made using TFD. Because the flame and smoke are to be rendered at the same time, both Temperature and Density in the TFD Emitter must be given certain values.On the left is the Temperature channel and on the right is the Density channel The scene has a special area light to illuminate the smoke part of the fluid.Scatter and Absorption mainly control the smoke part, and Scatter's Channel is set to TFD Density.Emission controls the flame part, and Channel is set to TFD's Temperature. Scatter controls the flame brightness, the bigger and brighter. Emission Remap Ramp maps the specific color of the flame, and the left side of the gradient bar corresponds to the low temperature. Click to adjust the prefab, there are common flame swatches.Because the flame itself is a light source, this flame also produces a global light effect.Fox Renderfarm hopes it will be of some help to you. It is well known that Fox Renderfarm is an excellent cloud rendering services provider in the CG world, so if you need to find a render farm, why not try Fox Renderfarm, which is offering a free $25 trial for new users? Thanks for reading!