Adam Trachtenberg
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This was a problem in earlier implementations of the new reflection channel, but they improved it with R18. It’s still fairly limited, but if you have materials that have the same layers and layer types you can multi-select them and add new reflection layers and adjust new or existing layers. Obviously that’s not going to help if you’re using R17 or below….
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You probably clicked on a layer’s solo button (first icon after the layer name).
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That’s peculiar. I don’t ever remember a version of Cinema where hierarchy had anything to do with light inclusion/exclusion, and I’ve been using Cinema since R6.
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Not to rub salt in the wound, but it’s right there in the View menu — second option: Undo View.
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Found a solution: go to the light’s Project tab, set the mode to Include, and drag your clone object into the include box.
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I’d have to look at the Xpresso when I have more time. I guess it wouldn’t work just to use a relatively small light falloff?
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Hmm, I was trying to set it up so it would work separately for each object but I should have tested it that way because it doesn’t in it’s current form. Couldn’t, of course, because each object would need it’s own visibility tag. So you’d have to use a modified setup for each one.
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Do you have an example for the look you’re going for?
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I’d use Xpresso to drive the visibility parameter of a display tag based upon the objects’ distance to the camera. It doesn’t show up in the OGL viewport but it does in the rendered output.
Example: 11481_fadewithdistance.c4d.zip
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Here’s what I would do:
* Make the random effector a child of the plane and then zero out the effector’s rotation;
* In the effector’s parameters tab, set the transform space to effector.
Now the sphere’s will rotate with the plane. Of course you have the random effector set to use global turbulence, so when you rotate the balls will slide around. If you don’t want that, set the turbulence to use UV space.