Krakatoa C4D - BETA 1 - Dec. 19, 2013

[Conrad_Wiebe]

[size=150]Introduction[/size]
This is the first beta build of Thinkbox Software’s official Krakatoa for Cinema4D plugin. Thinkbox is very excited to get the beta underway. We look forward to having you try it, and receiving your feedback and suggestions. Do not hesitate to post under the forums. For notifications on new builds, please subscribe by clicking “Subscribe Forum” on this page: Krakatoa C4D Builds. Downloading and licensing information is below.

[size=150]Requests & Bug Reports[/size]
For discussion and requests, please post here: viewforum.php?f=197
To report bugs, please post here: viewforum.php?f=196

[size=150]Licensing[/size]
To receive a license, please email a “Krakatoa C4D License Request” to beta@thinkboxsoftware.com

You must provide the following information:
• MAC address of your computer or license server.
• Hostname of your computer or license server.
• Specify if you would like a floating or node-locked license.

For information on how to find your MAC address, click here.

For licensing information and troubleshooting, click here.

[size=150]Downloads[/size]
[attachment=1]KrakatoaC4D_2.3.0.54243_Windows.zip[/attachment]
[attachment=0]KrakatoaC4D_2.3.0.54243_OSX.zip[/attachment]
Supports:
• Cinema 4D R14 (64 bit) on Windows and OSX
• Cinema 4D R15 (64 bit) on Windows and OSX

Happy rendering!

[TylerAfx]

Just some quick notes from my side regarding workflow and limitations.

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Turbulence FD Workflow

→ Turbulence FD Container

→ Container Cache Settings tick Cache Density.

→ Krakatoa SR Turbulence FD Source

→ Choose Container in Turbulence FD tab

→ only tick the Density Channel in the Channels subtab

→ Go back to the Turbulence FD Container and tweak the rendering parameters to the desired result. Only Smoke or Fire Shader will be usable, not both.

→ In the Krakatoa SR Turbulence FD Source, choose the respective Shader.

→ Add a light to the scene and render.

→ Apply a Krakatoa SR Channel Scale Tag to the Krakatoa SR Turbulence FD Source.

→ Type in Density in the Channel name

→ Set the Scale Value between 1 and 0 (.00005 is possible)to change the density of the particles until the desired threshold of visibility is achieved.

→ Adjust the Lighting and Drawing pass density and exponent values to match the desired look.

→ In the Krakatoa SR Turbulence FD Source you can refine the resolution of the particles by lowering the Voxel Spacing and raising the Voxel Subdivision. Enable Jittering to ensure no patterns appear. Be aware that increasing the particle amounts need the overall density to be lowered accordingly.

→ In the current implementation the Krakatoa SR Turbulence FD Source reads out the Turbulence FD Density Channel to generate the particles. This results in an even seeding of particles in every voxel that contains density information. There is no threshold setting yet equally to the FumeFX Operator in KMX/KMY. Depending on the smoke/fire shader gradients and thickness/brightness settings in the Turbulence FD Container Rendering Tab, the particles get assigned the respective channel info of color and density(opacity if you will). This makes it possible to let outer border particles disappear, which might have black/no color assigned but are seeded due to some small density field info available from the Turbulence FD Cache.

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X-Particles Workflow

→ X-Particles Emitter

→ Krakatoa SR X-Particles Source, choose the Emitter

→ Tick the Color Channel only

→ X-Particles Emitter Display Subtab to define the Color which Krakatoa will render.

→ X-Particles Shader (v.2.5.) is only partly supported yet.

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Krakatoa SR PRT Saver

→ Set the Channels Velocity, Color and Density to float32 to keep all the info when saving to prt files.

→ Krakatoa SR PRT Saver will save all Krakatoa SR Sources merged into one prt file/sequence.

→ Krakatoa SR PRT Saver does not work properly with the Cinema 4D Standard (Legacy) Particles Emitter.

Ill add more soon, but these should get you going smoothly for the start.