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X-Particles just got a bigger playground. With INSYDIUM Fused tools now supported for Cinema 4D on The Render Network artists can build amazing particle driven scenes, motion designs, and complex simulation-based work locally, then push the final render to the network while they keep creating on their own machine.

X-Particles just got a bigger playground. With INSYDIUM Fused tools now supported for Cinema 4D on The Render Network artists can build amazing particle driven scenes, motion designs, and complex simulation-based work locally, then push the final render to the network while they keep creating on their own machine.

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Using the new Render Network Wizard in Cinema 4D opens your eyes to a streamlined throughput. No packaging. No hassle. Just render. Streamline your production today with the C4D Wizard and the The Render Network

Using the new Render Network Wizard in Cinema 4D opens your eyes to a streamlined throughput. No packaging. No hassle. Just render. Streamline your production today with the C4D Wizard and the The Render Network

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Under the hood of every gaussian splat lives a point cloud - what this mean is we can do some really cool things! With points and particles being so relative - you can actually treat them as if they were the same. Here we're using INSYDIUM X-Particles to drive a nexus particle simulation from the millions of splat points directly. This opens the doors to tons of creative opportunities for splats via XP with the full stack of modifiers and controls to take your splat assets to the next level! Rendered with OTOY Octane 2026

Under the hood of every gaussian splat lives a point cloud - what this mean is we can do some really cool things! With points and particles being so relative - you can actually treat them as if they were the same. Here we're using INSYDIUM X-Particles to drive a nexus particle simulation from the millions of splat points directly. This opens the doors to tons of creative opportunities for splats via XP with the full stack of modifiers and controls to take your splat assets to the next level! Rendered with OTOY Octane 2026

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Somethings just get better, this meshed spline sim was 62gb via ORBX but with the new Cinema 4D Wizard for The Render Network the packaged ZIP was about 600mb.. my hard drive thanks you OTOY

Somethings just get better, this meshed spline sim was 62gb via ORBX but with the new Cinema 4D Wizard for The Render Network the packaged ZIP was about 600mb.. my hard drive thanks you OTOY

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Gaussian Splatting is pretty wild. Being able to take dense collections of assets and package them into fast, real-time splats opens up a ton of new possibilities for look-dev, previs, and interactive scenes. For this test, I built a pile of 400 skulls - roughly 40+ million polygons (and over 400 8K texture instances) - rendered out a 600 frame dataset on The Render Network with OTOY OctaneRender and then converted the result into a single splat asset. Now it runs in real-time as one compact Gaussian Splat.

Gaussian Splatting is pretty wild. Being able to take dense collections of assets and package them into fast, real-time splats opens up a ton of new possibilities for look-dev, previs, and interactive scenes. For this test, I built a pile of 400 skulls - roughly 40+ million polygons (and over 400 8K texture instances) - rendered out a 600 frame dataset on The Render Network with OTOY OctaneRender and then converted the result into a single splat asset. Now it runs in real-time as one compact Gaussian Splat.

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46,546 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

Accessibility is the magic here. Anyone with a phone can do this. Capture > upload > process > boom - you’ve got a real environment stored as a 3DGS asset. Right before HalfRez in Chicago, I shot a few quick videos while walking around the city. Nothing planned, nothing fancy - just some passive captures while killing time. I processed them remotely, and now I’ve got three little Chicago Gaussian splats I can pull up whenever I want. Gaussian splats shine for exactly this: grabbing pieces of the real world and turning them into reusable 3D assets. I can drop them straight into OTOY Octane 2026 and treat them almost like standard 3D geometry. They’re perfect for: building out larger environments creating real-world set extensions capturing everyday places in tiny, efficient packages and storing “location assets” you can reuse later If you travel, or just find yourself in unique places, don’t forget the opportunity to take that world home with you!

Accessibility is the magic here. Anyone with a phone can do this. Capture > upload > process > boom - you’ve got a real environment stored as a 3DGS asset. Right before HalfRez in Chicago, I shot a few quick videos while walking around the city. Nothing planned, nothing fancy - just some passive captures while killing time. I processed them remotely, and now I’ve got three little Chicago Gaussian splats I can pull up whenever I want. Gaussian splats shine for exactly this: grabbing pieces of the real world and turning them into reusable 3D assets. I can drop them straight into OTOY Octane 2026 and treat them almost like standard 3D geometry. They’re perfect for: building out larger environments creating real-world set extensions capturing everyday places in tiny, efficient packages and storing “location assets” you can reuse later If you travel, or just find yourself in unique places, don’t forget the opportunity to take that world home with you!

Spenser Dickerson

19,831 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

Volumetrics are amazing but historically heavy, dense, and painful to art direct. 3D Gaussian Splatting changes that by turning volumetric simulations into real-time, lightweight assets. With sufficient temporal data, these can evolve into true 4D Gaussian Splats. Even from a single static 3DGS, artists can create pseudo-4D behavior using simple deformers and procedural effects - bending, twisting, reshaping, and re-timing volumetric forms at will. This is a massive shift in how volumetrics can be captured, manipulated, and directed and also redefines them as swift real-time modular assets.

Volumetrics are amazing but historically heavy, dense, and painful to art direct. 3D Gaussian Splatting changes that by turning volumetric simulations into real-time, lightweight assets. With sufficient temporal data, these can evolve into true 4D Gaussian Splats. Even from a single static 3DGS, artists can create pseudo-4D behavior using simple deformers and procedural effects - bending, twisting, reshaping, and re-timing volumetric forms at will. This is a massive shift in how volumetrics can be captured, manipulated, and directed and also redefines them as swift real-time modular assets.

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12,944 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

2026 is the year of the splat! This is a single patch of moss - scanned top and bottom - turned into a fully modular 3D asset. Flip it one way and it’s lush moss. Flip it the other and it’s damp, detailed soil. Both sides are real. No fake backsides. No tiling tricks. Ultra-lightweight. Fully real-time. Clones cleanly across geometry. And here’s the key difference - splats don’t really care about intersections. Coplanar overlaps don’t break the asset, they add density and realism. To match this traditionally with 3D you’d need thousands of moss scatters or extremely dense geo - and it would still feel off. One splat patch scales into massive 3D plates with almost no resource cost. This is asset development going forward - modular, DCC-agnostic, and built for modern pipelines. Download the moss scan for free on Gumroad and give it some 3D love. Rendered with OTOY Octane 2026

2026 is the year of the splat! This is a single patch of moss - scanned top and bottom - turned into a fully modular 3D asset. Flip it one way and it’s lush moss. Flip it the other and it’s damp, detailed soil. Both sides are real. No fake backsides. No tiling tricks. Ultra-lightweight. Fully real-time. Clones cleanly across geometry. And here’s the key difference - splats don’t really care about intersections. Coplanar overlaps don’t break the asset, they add density and realism. To match this traditionally with 3D you’d need thousands of moss scatters or extremely dense geo - and it would still feel off. One splat patch scales into massive 3D plates with almost no resource cost. This is asset development going forward - modular, DCC-agnostic, and built for modern pipelines. Download the moss scan for free on Gumroad and give it some 3D love. Rendered with OTOY Octane 2026

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With all of the procedural sims stuff which is awesome - we forget about good ol' Modelling tips and tricks! Here is one of my favorite procedural modelling tricks to add wrinkles/elasticity for procedural organic flow to really anything.. simply using 2 simple tools in conjunciton with each other: Spline Deformer and Smooth Deformer (geometry with good topology yields nice loops to extract with the edge to spline command🤘) Note: Set Smooth deformer to relax and initialize BEFORE deformations take place Maxon

With all of the procedural sims stuff which is awesome - we forget about good ol' Modelling tips and tricks! Here is one of my favorite procedural modelling tricks to add wrinkles/elasticity for procedural organic flow to really anything.. simply using 2 simple tools in conjunciton with each other: Spline Deformer and Smooth Deformer (geometry with good topology yields nice loops to extract with the edge to spline command🤘) Note: Set Smooth deformer to relax and initialize BEFORE deformations take place Maxon

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29,721 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

Running a spline sim directly from the edges of a cloth siim has some interesting opportunities to blend cloth and splines together - consider organically building a cloth with dynamic splines and vertex maps - no plugins needed Maxon

Running a spline sim directly from the edges of a cloth siim has some interesting opportunities to blend cloth and splines together - consider organically building a cloth with dynamic splines and vertex maps - no plugins needed Maxon

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Curious about how to get Gaussian Splats into Octane? We’ve got you covered! Here’s a new in-depth walkthrough showing how to bring your first splat into Octane 2026.1 Alpha 3 - including setup, node tweaks, lighting tips, and getting clean renders in Standalone. Watch the full tutorial here:

Curious about how to get Gaussian Splats into Octane? We’ve got you covered! Here’s a new in-depth walkthrough showing how to bring your first splat into Octane 2026.1 Alpha 3 - including setup, node tweaks, lighting tips, and getting clean renders in Standalone. Watch the full tutorial here:

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Sometimes we forget how effective simple dynamic connectors and springs can be Maxon #C4D

Sometimes we forget how effective simple dynamic connectors and springs can be Maxon #C4D

Spenser Dickerson

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