• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Dynamics Oddity

  Posted by Tony Barone on April 5, 2011 at 5:30 pm

  A few days ago I downloaded Michael Szalapski’s “Dice” animation from the following thread:
  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/19/873719#873719

  From that file I created my own with Dice modeled with numbers and such.
  I rendered the animation and the dice end up landing with 2 and 6 facing upwards. However, when running the dynamic simulation on a different computer, the dice end up landing and rolling differently.

  It is the same C4D file, why would it be different on a different computer running the same version of C4D?

  Tony Barone replied 15 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Michael Szalapski

  April 5, 2011 at 5:53 pm

  Because the way the physics are calculated is relative to the processor’s cycles.

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  Brian Jones

  April 5, 2011 at 7:23 pm

  that’s always been true for any of the simulations. Different processors have slight differences in the implementation of the floating point unit etc which result in slight differences in the render. This is true for particles as well and is the reason they suggest if you are using NET to have all the processors be the same.
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  Tony Barone

  April 5, 2011 at 7:54 pm

  Thank you both for your replies and explanations.

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