Create Beautiful Particle Animation Using Cinema 4d & Redshift

Sphere Instance and Optimized Spheres mode look nearly identical, but the Optimized Spheres mode is Redshift’s native “point” primitive. Sphere Instance is just a mesh sphere created with C4D and instanced with redshift.

Redshift supports rendering Thinking Particles inside of Cinema 4D. To render thinking particles make sure you have set up your particle animation geometry, demonstrated below.

Redshift supports rendering X-Particles inside of Cinema 4D. To render your X-Particles setups you need to add a Redshift Object Tag to your respected xpEmitters and adjust the particle settings.

Redshift supports a maximum of 8 GPUs per session, and, it is undeniable that your hardware needs at least 2 GPU if you are using this GPU-accelerated engine. It is very good at utilizing multiple GPUs simultaneously, so installing many graphics cards into your system is a great way to boost performance further. When doing so, sufficiently cooling your system becomes very important. NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards expel the heat directly out the back of the system, known as blower cards, are the best choice for this. They stack nicely and work very comfortably in multi GPU Workstations. Professional NVIDIA Graphics cards or new NVIDIA GeForce RTX are all designed with this cooler.

According to the Pugetsystems test with RTX 2080, we get a pretty scaling from 2 to 3 to 4 GPU, the performance rise is 195%, 284%, 374% respectively. To see how increasing the number of video cards in a system affects performance in Redshift with the new GeForce 30 Series (Ampere architecture), we continue running the benchmark in the version of Redshift 3.0.39 with 1, 2, 3, and 4 NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM).

As demonstrated above, video card performance in Redshift scales very well as additional cards are added. It isn’t quite perfect, or linear, scaling – there is some level of diminishing returns – but it is still more than enough to justify their use in multi-GPU workstations.

As long as each card is supported, Redshift does allow you to mix and match different models of video cards.. However, the more different the cards (different architectures, different versions of CUDA, etc.), the larger the chance of errors occurring. Also note that if the cards have different amounts of VRAM you will be limited to the smallest amount.

NVLINK enables users to pool GPU memory across two supported GPUs. The main problem with that solution when using “old” interfaces like SLi (for NVIDIA), is that your GPUs would still act as two different cards. A new technology from NVIDIA called NVLink is different and can make multiple cards work like a single one. That is also valid for available memory.

To connect the cards, you need an additional piece of hardware called a bridge. For instance, if you want to go for an overkill setup, a dual GeForce RTX 3090 connected with the NVLink, the final amount of memory available for your scenes in Redshift will be 48 GB.

With Redshift, the NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVLink configuration crushes the Redshift demo benchmark at 1 minute and 27 seconds, achieving the fastest render time we have seen to date. We did not get perfect 2x scaling, but one can easily see how this is an enormous performance gain for highly complex scenes that require a higher amount of GPU memory.

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Moreover, on-demand NVLink helps you increase the amount of VRAM to 24 x 2 = 48 GB which is powerful enough for very large projects/cache. We are confident that we are the only render farm where you can experience NVLink and Multi-GPU with Redshift. This November, we are offering you a discount of 20%, you only need to pay 12 USD for one hour using 4x RTX 3090 and maximize your speed.

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Source: redshift3d.com

*Note: all images are from Redshift.com