How to use Interactive Viewport Rendering in Cinema 4D

Since the release of Corona Renderer 4 for Cinema 4D, nosotros have introduced the ability to designate any viewport to make use of Interactive Rendering. Non only does this clean upward your working environment, just you lot can also interact with the scene geometry, for example: scale, move and rotate. You tin also apply materials directly onto a mesh right onto the Viewport Interactive Renderer.

Note: This should non exist confused with the VFB Interactive Renderer. The features mentioned beneath are only available for the Interactive Viewport.

The Interactive Viewport is located in the main Corona drop-downward card in the Movie theatre 4D interface. The settings icon will allow you to fine-melody how you want the Interactive Viewport to work for you.

With the window open up, nosotros can run across a small-scale number of settings that can be tweaked.

  • Viewport:
  • Use render view: Specifies whether to utilize viewport marked with "Use every bit Render View", or the currently selected viewport, as the source to render from.
  • Lock view: Locks which viewport is used equally the source for IR to whichever one is active when this is checked (or when viewport IR starts). East.g. if you have "Use selected view" enabled merely "Lock View" unchecked, clicking to any viewport will switch IR to the newly selected viewport; if "Lock View" is checked, though, the IR viewport will stay using the current viewport even if some other viewport is clicked on.
  • Alpha fashion:Disables drawing of the image background in the IR viewport; if enabled, then instead of the Sky or HDRI groundwork prototype, you volition run across the viewport grid.
  • Detail:Using the slider, you can set how detailed you would like your previewed image to look. The lower the value, the faster the preview volition be.

Note: Currently the Interactive Viewport doesn't support changing the render resolution after IR has started; this ways that resizing the Interactive Viewport window volition scale the event of the return, non the resolution of the render; also, it ways that changing the Detail value later on IR has started won't have whatsoever outcome. To change either the return resolution, or the Particular value, simply restart the Interactive Viewport. This should be fixed in a time to come release.

You tin left-click on any object in the docked Interactive Viewport to select that object, and controls such as CTRL+left click for adding to a option, etc. will all work.

Y'all can also move, calibration or rotate the object using the regular Cinema 4D widgets right in the Interactive Viewport as well, and the usual controls to navigate the camera or perspective view will work directly in the Interactive Viewport as well.

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