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Noise Movement, Layer Shader
hoping someone can confirm this does NOT work for me, and that im not just missing something obvious. At first i could not for the life of me get noise movement to work. After so searching, i found 1 thread where someone mentioned ‘make sure “noises” is activated in the viewport options’, which i did, and that temporarily solved the problem, since i was in a new test scene. now i can see my noise move when in the viewport when i scrub.
i jump back to my working scene, where i have noise in a layered shader acting as a layer mask for a texture. i want the noise to move over time. it seems when the noise is in a layer shader, the movement does not work. this happens in both r16 and r17. i dont know why putting it in a layer would break the viewport animation, but it does.
the animation is still present if you do a full render, but thats realy tedious when trying to simply set some animation and move on.
is there a solution or workaround im not aware of, or is this a bug? thanks.
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in the material’s Editor tab make sure Animate Preview is checked – the apparent scale of the noise is wrong (very similar to the scale problems if you turn Options/Noises off) but it does animate
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thank for the response brian. i had tried with and without the animate preview turned on before i made my initial post. in my case it doesnt seem to help. the noise evolution works, but not the movement.
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can you post the shader (even in an otherwise empty file) it would interesting to see what breaks it – I just tried a fairly simple layer shader
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yup, here you go (r17)…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u5bv2ig56exx4r6/layerNoise.c4d?dl=0
i made a noise, added movement, applied to cube, scrubbed, worked. duplicated cube, duplicated material, renamed, simply clicked the texture slot noise and switched to layered, and now its broken.
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ah, you can animate the noise but you can’t move the noise (at least not in the viewport) in a Layer. I don’t see anything about Layer limitations in the help. Put a report into Maxon, either they don’t know or there’s a reason
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k, just wanted to make sure i wasnt missing something simple. seems like an obvious oversight on their part.
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