C4D

The overall process of setting up C4D with ButterflyNetRender is very straight forward:

Install:

(Windows):

• 1. Install C4D locally on all the Windows Rendernode machines (in the same location on all machines)

• 2. Set the Install paths in the BNR Controller

(OSX):

• 1. Install C4D locally on the OSX Rendernode machines.
• 2. In the BNR OSX Client - set the install path location (The OSX Clients store the platforms paths - where the Windows Controller stores only the Windows Platform paths)
• 3. Setup the POSIX path matching in the Windows Controller (see POSIX path matching section)

NOTE: if you plan to work between OSX and Windows - You MUST save your textures under
the project directory,  Anywhere in the folder But you can't get textures from another
drive or directory outside the project path.

Configure:

Configure paths and settings in BNR Controller:

In the BNR Controller:

• 1. Turn on the 'C4D' platform: (Options->Configure Platforms)

• 2. Set the location of the C4D render (the local path on each Rendernode) (Options->Configure Platforms - C4D)

• 3. If running OSX Rendernode - you will need to setup the POSIX path matching (Options->Configure Directories - OSX POSIX Path Matching)

This is used to match the Windows and OSX paths

Restart:

Restart the BNR Controller.

Add:

Now add a C4D Scene scene files for rendering:

Make sure you add the scene from the Shared Network folder (that all the rendernodes have access to - otherwise the rendernodes will not be able to load the scene)

NOTE: BNR requires you to save all the C4D Scenes in the: name####.ext format. BNR will always check for frames this way. Please check the Frames/Animation Ext under the Image Output section in the C4D Render Globals.

Test:

The best way to test a new C4D setup:

• 1. Make sure C4D is installed on the controller (in the same location as the RenderNodes)
• 2. Turn on the 'C4D Logging' feature - Options->Preferences
• 3. Add a C4D .ma scene into BNR
• 4. Select the 'Render' Tab
• 5. Press the 'Test Render Command" and then press 'Launch Locally'

This will run the same command the Rendernodes will get - but you will get to see more information directly (You will need to check the Task manager to see if its running)

• If all works -Then you will need to check the log file from the command line -log filename.log

-Or -

• Right click on the Scene and a select "Open Scene Trace Log folder" and you should find the ae output text "Render_*.txt" - Please open with notepad to view the text.

(note if you see *.csv files - these are BNR Controller state flows)