Usage of the Cinema 4D Standard or Physical renderer has decreased to a very low percentage in our studio. They still have their ocassional uses of course, as for certain renderings with simple materials it is very hard to beat the speed of the built-in renderers. For anything else, it’s now a mixture of Octane […]
Tag: PowerShell

Force domain-wide Group Policy update
Since we moved our workstations to a Windows domain, the administration of those workstations has become significantly easier. One of the reasons for this are of course Group Policies. However, sometimes it’s rather inconvenient to have to wait for the clients to update their GPOs from the server, which can take a while. Instead, you can […]

PowerShell Grep Sed
If you’re familiar with grep and sed on Linux, you may come to miss them in a Windows environment (although the WSL subsystem / GNU tools for Windows exist, so…). Thankfully, with Powershell we have equally competent tools at hand. Select-String -Pattern ‘myRegexPattern’ -Path ‘fileToSearch.txt’ -AllMatches | % { $_.Matches.Value -replace “old”,”new” } Select-String will take […]