Since C4D R19, AMD’s Radeon ProRender has been included, and it doesn’t seem like that’s going to be changing soon. A massive reason for that is that currently, AMD’s Radeon will work brilliantly with C4D out-of-the-box, while Redshift is a 100% CUDA-based renderer requiring NVIDIA GPUs. Will Redshift become the default renderer? If it does, it’s not going to be anytime soon.
Redshift is already a highly respected biased renderer, so it’s unsurprising that Maxon saw some great value in it. What does this mean for Redshift besides a paycheck? It means the backing of a bigger company that should allow it to do even better work. It sounds like a death sentence if Maxon were to kick out other support. There are certain characteristics shared between C4D and Redshift that Maxon calls out: ease-of-use, stability, speed, photo-realism, and interactive rendering. It’s not going to come at the expense of other renderers.
In its press release, Maxon talks of how Redshift is the “perfect strategic” addition, and if Redshift+C4D fans can expect better integration, then that’s not going to be a bad thing. If you’re a Maxon or Redshift user, chances are good that you don’t need to even think about what’s going on, because according to Maxon, nothing significant is going to happen. Since the announcement, we’ve seen many people around the web asking the same questions over and over, not realizing that Maxon itself has answered almost all of them right on its own website.
At the same time, Redshift fans the world over began to worry about what it could mean for their favorite renderer, and likewise, Cinema 4D fans wondered how Redshift integration could change in the future – or if it meant that the renderer would become the default. Maxon surprised the ProViz world earlier this week when it announced its acquisition of Redshift.
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