I exported the "Kevin" character from CC as an FBX and imported it into Blender using the "CC Tools" add on.

In the Blender "CC Tools" import panel, I enabled "Lighting" and "Wrinkles".

As can be seen in the attached screenshots, the CC render on the left looks much better than the render done in Blender (right). .
The character in Blender is kind of "washed out."
Am I missing something (a setting? missing material?) or is this "just the way it is"?

Minor thing: The imported lights somehow ended up on the opposite side of the character from where they were positioned in CC.
 

Hi there,

This could be due to some things, but my first bet is that you are in Material Preview (left) instead of Rendered view and made a render from that viewport.





These are only screenshots from the viewport and as you can see it's definately possible creating better results using this fantastic plugin.
Cycles gives the best results as render engine in Blender.

What are your export settings from CC?

There maybe some other things you can check when import in Blender:
- Are the build settings set to Cycles and Advanced Materials?



- Are you using Cyles as render engine instead of EEVEE?



As far as I'm concerned, ticking 'Lightning' only sets a default 3 point light setup on import.
And it isn't possible to export lights from CC but maybe someone else can shed a light on this one.

Also I would recommend posting this question in the Blender Pipeline section for quicker answers, because this isn't an iClone 8 related topic.
https://forum.reallusion.com/3D-Pipelines/Blender

GL

Blender denoises too much, so adjusting with compositing will result in less blur
render:Cycles

Thank you for the response.

The Blender image was created using Render->Render Image. It wasn't taken from the viewport.

I'm using Eeevee to render, not Cycles.

I'll keep playing with settings and see if I can get something comparable to your results (which look good). Main issue seems to be getting the lights set correctly.

Thank you for the tip about the other forum. I'll post there going forward.

Thank you for the response. That looks great!

I was hoping to not have to use Cycles, as my understanding is it generally takes longer to render than Eevee. And to be honest, compared to the lightning fast rendering I see in iClone, even Eevee is slow. Possibly some settings I can change to speed that up.

Eevee is perfect for animation rendering. Don't forget to bake lighting when rendering complex scenes.

render:Eevee

@yogdyr

Yeah, it takes some tweaking when importing CC4 characters to Blender and conforming the shaders for either Eevee and Cycles.  I tried to create a side by side comparison.  Eevee's render times are considerably less than Cycles, depending on the resolution and maximum samples of course.  Probably didn't really need to create a 4k cinematic just for the test, but I wanted to test the limits of my setup and this has been the best result I've gotten so far.

https://youtu.be/t-8DxL3NewI