Experiment, watch internet tutorials, and ask experts for specific advice whenever you get stuck. Much of the specifics will depend on the input image, the liquid you're trying to simulate, your compositing software, and the desired end result. At minimum, you're going to need an alpha channel of some sort, you can use an object buffer to isolate where your liquid is, but you'll also need transparency, diffuse, specular, reflections, and more, depending on how you go about compositing the image. You'll also want to experiment with the render settings to get something usable in your compositing app. Often, you can get away with using these built-in ones. Click on the KeyShot folder and then click Open. In the file browser that opens browse to the KeyShot folder you saved in step 2. Click on Add Folder at the bottom of the plugin menu.

Just search for 'HDR' in the content browser and pick something similar to your scene. Go to Edit, Preferences and click the Plugin button in the left-hand menu. You can experiment with the HDRi textures already included with C4D, and practice compositing the rendered image before you go to all the trouble of setting up an actual light probe. You can set up global illumination to cast light from the sky object if you want, but if all you're looking for is transparency, refraction, and reflection, you don't need to. You'll probably want to make use of the 'compositing' tag on your scene elements to help control what appears in your render passes (which is where you'll find the object buffer). Then, use the image in the luminance channel of a material, drop the material on a sky object, and place the sky object in your Cinema scene. You can use either a mirror ball, 360º camera, or stitch together a panorama from multiple images. If you have feedback on the subreddit theme, feel free to send /u/Cryptonaut a message.Capture a spherical high-dynamic range image on set from the location where the liquid will appear. The traffic stats for /r/Cinema4D are also publically available.

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