• Maxon Cinema 4D

  texture turns off for no apparent reason

  Posted by Jon Simpson on November 15, 2015 at 4:41 pm

  I have a short 100 frame animation where the texture on one object turns off and back on in two frames, 62 and 89. Absolutely no apparent reason for this. What should I be looking for that would cause this?

  Jon Simpson replied 10 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  November 15, 2015 at 5:41 pm

  the two easiest thoughts are: you have duplicated geometry in the object or the texture is keyframed to turn off – that’s probably not the only two possibilities, it would help to see the scene file.
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  Jon Simpson

  November 15, 2015 at 5:56 pm

  Thanks Brian, here is the scene file and you will maybe have to add the .lib4d file to your browser

  9456_culturecloud.c4d.zip

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/0lr8vfawwm7c28d/C4Depot%20Real%20Earth%201.0.rar?dl=0
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  Brian Jones

  November 15, 2015 at 6:36 pm

  only seeing clouds but there are a bunch of missing pictures

  static map with dots.png (Mat.3)
  map marker animation_00336.png (Mat)
  G:\Cinema 4D assets\USFLAG.TGA (usflag)
  G:\Cinema 4D assets\WMCLM.TGA (column)
  G:\Cinema 4D assets\WMCLMT.TGA (top)
  G:\Cinema 4D assets\Tour_eiffel\tex\texture.jpg (texture eifel)
  G:\Cinema 4D assets\Tour_eiffel\tex\alfa.jpg (texture eiffel)

  try a Save Project With Assets…
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  Jon Simpson

  November 16, 2015 at 7:47 pm

  Sorry about that. The only image that matters is this one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/epmc5smawgjevx8/culture%20cloud%20globe%20great%20lakes.png?dl=0

  This is the one that shuts off
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  Brian Jones

  November 17, 2015 at 4:06 am

  the file I have does not use an image with that name – the one material that looks like it contains the image (based on the thumbnails) uses an image called ‘static map with dots.png’ – I tried using that for the image’s name and I get the planet with texture and I do see image drop in frame 71 and 75. That stops if I deactivate the Earth sphere and leave just the Earth Preview…
  hard to tell what’s happening there as the Earth sphere has the second material with the texture “map marker animation_00336.png” missing… …and if I turn off earth preview Earth renders differently although the same material appears to be applied the same way…

  unless something prevents it I’d just disable Earth and go with the Earth Preview but I don’t know what the missing texture files are doing.
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  Jon Simpson

  November 18, 2015 at 1:11 pm

  Hey Brian, sorry for the late reply, I really appreciate you looking into this. Here is the missing image, I forgot I had replaced it:

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/7qfeu40w3kl77ya/static%20map%20with%20dots.png?dl=0

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