Cinema 4D: X-Particles and Redshift Techniques

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

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