

Some terms used in this series may be a bit geeky. If you've never heard of Redshift or curious about using it in Cinema 4D, this is the article for you. In this article we'll introduce the Redshift render engine. You can catch up on part-one, An Overview of Arnold in Cinema 4D and part-two, An Overview of Octane in Cinema 4D. Welcome to part-three of our four-part render engines series, covering Cinema 4D's four top talked about render engines: Arnold, Octane, Redshift and Cycles.


This time instead of installing to the default location, create a new folder on your computer and tell the Redshift installer to install Redshift there: Next, run the Redshift installer again.First, if you've already installed Redshift, uninstall it.Although Redshift, by default, will try to use this old method, you can force it to use the new method instead here's how to do that: Before the release of R20, this was the usual method of installing plugins.īut with the release of R20, MAXON created a new method of installing plugins that does not require you to use this old method. Redshift still currently uses the old method of installing plugins which is to create a "plugins" folder in your Cinema 4D installation path (C:\Program Files\Maxon Cinema 4D R20\plugins on Windows, or Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D/plugins on Mac) and install Redshift there.

Firstly, please check that your machine machine the required specifications in the link below.
