How to set up ACEScg workflow with V-Ray for Cinema 4D?

V-Ray for Cinema 4D is one of the best rendering plugins with many high-end and industrial-quality features. Chaos, with a long time in the industry, always provides the best for its render engine. From V-Ray 5 and now V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D, they come with an implementation of the ACEScg – the version of the ACES encoding system for computer graphics, now has become industry standard. In the article, let’s see how to set up ACEScg workflow with V-Ray for Cinema 4D with iRender.

How to set up ACEScg workflow with V-Ray for Cinema 4D?

To access ACEScg, you come to Render Settings > V-Ray > Color Management > ACEScg.

If you use any 8-bit texture map, note that you should rename them according to the color space that they are in, using a “_lin_srgb”, “_srgb” or “_acescg” suffix.

If neither is present, the map is assumed to be in the renderer color space specified in the Color management rollout (in this setup, ACEScg).

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Alternatively, you have to set the RGB color space manually for each Bitmap texture. If there are files that are exceptions to the rule-based file naming system, you will need to rename them. The settings in the Bitmap texture will override the automatic algorithm.

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Using OCIO Configuration with VFB

You can set up an automated OCIO configuration with the OCIO environment variable. This option is already available when using the default Cinema 4D bitmap. The OCIO configuration can be specified in the V-Ray Frame Buffer.

To set this up, please follow three steps below:

- - - Come to GitHub and download the Open Color IO configuration package.
    - Set the OCIO environment variable and point it to the ociofile.

For example, to set up the OCIO configuration with aces_1.2:

Windows: set OCIO=C:\OpenColorIO-Configs\aces_1.2\config.ocio

macOS: export OCIO=/home/user/OpenColorIO-Configs/aces_1.2/config.ocio

- - - When switching from the VFB Display Correction to OCIO, V-Raywill read the OCIO variable and load the configuration there as well. Now you choose ACES – ACEScg for your Input Colorspace and sRGB for your View Transform. Leave the Display Device at ACES.

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V-Ray Standalone OCIO Configuration

When rendering with V-Ray Standalone, you can set up an OCIO configuration with the following VFB OCIO environment variables:

VRAY_VFB_OCIO_INPUT_COLORSPACE: it specifies default OCIO input color space.

VRAY_VFB_OCIO_DISPLAY_DEVICE: it specifies default OCIO display device.

VRAY_VFB_OCIO_VIEW_TRANSFORM: it specifies default OCIO view transform.

Below is the example on how you set a default OCIO input color space, display device, and view transform:

Windows:

set VRAY_VFB_OCIO_INPUT_COLORSPACE=ACES – ACEScg

set VRAY_VFB_OCIO_DISPLAY_DEVICE=ACES

set VRAY_VFB_OCIO_VIEW_TRANSFORM=sRGB

macOS:

export VRAY_VFB_OCIO_INPUT_COLORSPACE=ACES – ACEScg

export VRAY_VFB_OCIO_VIEW_TRANSFORM=sRGB

If you don’t set these variables, it is impossible to render in ACES color space with V-Ray Standalone.

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Does iRender support ACEScg workflow with V-Ray for Cinema 4D?

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You can create a remote machine with pre-installed Cinema 4D, then install V-Ray and start to set up ACEScg like how this article instructed.

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