Hey Kirgman,

sorry for the long time it took me to reply.
Thank you very much for your nice answer and for looking into my request.

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It would be certainly interesting to see results of your experiments with CentiLeo and get the feedback about the current amount of issues.

Unfortunately for you I have not been building scenes or anything: I am playing around with it from time to time seeing what features are in there in rendering and in materials.
I have to say it looks very promising. I like the fluidity of the IPR and also the material system: There is quite a lot in there that allows to build sophisticated materials.

When I play some more with it and find things to report (good and bad) I will write them here

About the forum message cutoff. I am certain this is half my fault. I tried to add the images (that I later then attached the link) to the message directly but could not figure out how. So I aborded the process. I guess this caused the cutoff in the end.

Cheers and a great weekend and a good time to you and thank you once more for your work and friendly replies!
Raphael

Oh wow. What a nice welcome.
Thank you so much for your long message. Great to also hear that those research results were of some use to you!

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Huh, the forum posted only the very top of my message, so here I go again and hope this goes though this time:

Maybe to help the claim I made I uploaded some Screenshots of the Vram usage of my GPUs.

Base line is secondary GPUs 250 MB, main GPU 1400 MB

GOOGLE DRIVE LINK

01_C4D_Opening_No_CentiLeo.png
So when I start C4D without CentiLeo installed the Vram utilization is as follows.
Secondary GPUs 1000 MB, main GPU 3000 MB

02_C4D_Opening_CentiLeo.png
When I install CentiLeo and reopen C4D the Vram Usage increases:
Secondary GPUs 2700 MB, main GPU 6000 MB

So just opening C4D in the standard interface. Not touching anything.

Thank you very much for your prompt response and having a look at it.
Would be great if that initial Vram usage could be avoided.

Btw. I also had a look at your C4D Manual. It looks really nice. Congratulations.

Cheers and a great weekend to you!
Raphael

I have 24GB GPUs in my system.
When I start C4D with CentiLeo installed, it takes around 3 GB of Vram from the system at the start in C4D.
This is without it being activated as renderer!

I would opt for a mechanism that activates CentiLeo only if you have chosen it as a render engine. Or right before rendering.

Reason:
If I want to render with Redshift or Octane (or any other Vram hungry renderer / application) I have around 3GB Vram less at my disposal.
I understand that CentiLeo might need that amount of Vram to run properly. But I t should not take it at the application startup. Only when it´s clear that the user is really using it!

Thank you very much in advance for considering!

PC Specs if needed:
Windows 11 64bit Built 22621
Motherboard: ASUS WS X299 SAGE 10G
Processor: i7 10980XE, 18 Cores - 36 Threads, 3.0 GHz
Ram: 128 GB DDR4 3200 MHz CL18
Graphics: 1 X Nvidia RTX 4090, 3 X Nvidia RTX 3090 (Reference Design / Founders Edition)