Delaying time of Rigid Body?

[Jim Scott]

Hi Kale,

You could keyframe either the Dynamic setting or the Enabled setting of the tag. At the point in time when you’d like the earrings to fall either leave the tag Enabled (checked) and keyframe Dynamic (with Trigger set to the default of “Immediately”) from “Off” to “On” from one frame to the next , or leave Dynamic “On” and keyframe Enabled from unchecked to checked.

Though either method will work for simple animations, I would suggest leaving the tag enabled and keyframing Dynamic. That way the object will still respond to collisions if necessary. See the help section for “Dynamics Body Tag: Dynamics ” for a discussion of those settings, as well as the Transition Time setting which can be useful in some scenarios.

[Kale Collins]

Dynamics worked great, thank you! Was just puzzled when to press the circle and when to not, but I figured it out- the first circle just is the deciding factor of whether you want it to begin immediately (on/off) and what time it would start, I turned it off on keyframe on 70
and Turned on at 80.
But now I face this issue:
When I try rendering All Frames, the realflow fluid/simulation isn’t rendering. Is this normal or am I missing something? (Imagine just a body of water below two objects)

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[Jim Scott]

Hi Kale,

I’m glad you got the dynamics figured out, but just for clarification: by placing the first keyframe for dynamics (off) at frame 70, that dictated that dynamics was off from the beginning. You didn’t actually “turn it off on keyframe 70,” as you wrote. It’s just that without any previous keyframes, any keyframe will essentially set its value as the default. I think you understand, but I just wanted to make sure.

Without seeing your project, I would guess that you haven’t added a Mesher to your scene, so there is nothing to render. Without a Mesher object the scene only runs a fluid simulation.

[Kale Collins]

Ahh.. I do have a Mesher and thats why I’m stressed as to why it isn’t rendering. In fact nothing is there when rendered, it is just a black empty space, which is strange because I have the scene sitting in one cube that overlaps another which is used as a border. And all of this is within a diorama space that has purple flames.
I’ve tried caching the scene simulation. And am currently attempting to cache the mesh. Hopefully this will work… if not what could it be?
Maybe I should try use another renderer.. I’ve heard RedShift works well. Because at the moment I’m only using the default render in C4D.

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[Jim Scott]

Could you post your project file? I don’t use the Realflow plugin that much, but I would be glad to take a look at it. And just to get more input, start a new thread so that others are more likely to see it.

[Kale Collins]

Can I somehow email you or send the .zip privately? It is a personal work I don’t yet wish for all to see.
Cheers 🙂

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[Jim Scott]

I understand. I don’t know of any way to privately post an email address, and I wouldn’t want either one of us to publicly post ours. Could you make a simplified project that just shows the problem with Realflow? Perhaps you could copy just the Realflow set-up into another project and post that.

[Steve Bentley]

We’ve had the mesh get “lost” in C4d (similar to how in the past you couldn’t replace a image with one of the same name; C4d just wouldn’t refresh.
So often we’ll move the mesh files and then re point C4D to the RF files.

[Jim Scott]

Steve,

Are you referring to Realflow, or the Realflow│C4D plugin? If the plugin, where would those mesh files be? I only use it occasionally and am only familiar with the cache files.

Edit: Never mind. I was confusing myself thinking the mesh cache was something different.

[Kale Collins]

If either of you would be willing to check out my newest thread.. “RealFlow:…” I have attached my file. Thanks so much!

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