{"id":12159,"date":"2019-11-08T17:39:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=12159"},"modified":"2019-11-08T17:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T17:39:49","slug":"u-render","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/11\/08\/u-render\/","title":{"rendered":"U-Render"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting news of a &#8220;really real-time&#8221; renderer for Cinema 4D, thus potentially interfacing with imported scene files from Poser.  U-Render works on Cinema 4D R16 and upwards, is <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/opengl-driver\">OpenGL 4.5<\/a>-based and is GPU agnostic (Nvidia or AMD).  Poser 11 Pro&#8217;s PoserFusion plugin supported Cinema 4D to R19.  Thus it should be theoretically possible to import a Poser scene to C4D and have it render in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>U-Render is somewhat affordable at $329 (currently with a 33% discount offer). In its latest 2019.11 version it newly supports volumetrics. <\/p>\n<p>The only major drawback seems to be that U-Render is developed for the toxic tangle that is Windows 10.  But there&#8217;s a 30-day free trial to test it &mdash; please comment here if you find you can actually get it running under Windows 8.1.x.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders if this could be plugged more directly into a future Poser 12, too, perhaps as a $199 plugin.  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Incidentally, if you&#8217;re inclined to ask &#8220;what version of OpenGL am I running&#8221;, then be <em>very<\/em> wary of installing the commonly-suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/realtech-vr.com\/admin\/glview\">GL View utility<\/a> to find out.  It will bring your PC to a grinding halt for two hours while it does its intense tests, and it cannot be halted no matter how many times you press <em>Crtl + Alt + Del<\/em>. The only way to kill it is to remove the power-cable and kill Windows. This makes it highly dangerous for most users. It&#8217;s not intended to be malware, but its aggressive system-hogging, and lack of asking user permissions or offer of slower probing, effectively make it so.<\/p>\n<p>The far easier way is the portable freeware <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorgeeks.com\/files\/details\/gpu_caps_viewer.html\">GPU Caps Viewer<\/a>.  This is very light on your PC and indeed takes just half a second to give you the answer.  I&#8217;m on OpenGL 4.2.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: installing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=12167\">new GPU display drivers<\/a> upgraded me to OpenGL 4.5.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting news of a &#8220;really real-time&#8221; renderer for Cinema 4D, thus potentially interfacing with imported scene files from Poser. U-Render works on Cinema 4D R16 and upwards, is OpenGL 4.5-based and is GPU agnostic (Nvidia or AMD). Poser 11 Pro&#8217;s PoserFusion plugin supported Cinema 4D to R19. Thus it should be theoretically possible to import [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,3,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-renders","category-companion-software","category-poser","category-special-offers-and-discounts","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}