Adam Trachtenberg
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I just tried a basic test with the NitroBake plugin and it seems to work. It gives you separate objects for the original polygons and the cloth extrusion, but the animation holds together.
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Another option would be to use the Surface Deformer in UV mode.
11418_11415paragraphdeformationsurfacedeformer.c4d.zip
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It’s odd that Fusion 360 doesn’t export a proper UV layout. Have you checked to make sure the polygon normals are aligned (all facing out)?
Unfortunately Cinema doesn’t have tool to automatically retopologize an object like this. Your best bet may be to export an IGS file and bring it into another program that does a better job translating to polygon formats. A lot of people like Moi 3D for this and I think they have a demo you can try. I use Rhino myself.
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Object buffers are just alphas to be used in your compositing application to isolate your objects, so you need to render a beauty pass or whatever regular channels you need (diffuse, reflection, etc.) in addition to the buffer passes.
In AE you use object buffers as luma mattes.
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Is there anything unusual about the material?
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Yep, it sure looks like GI flickering. It’s a nuisance to deal with unless you use the QMC method, which takes forever to render. Unfortunately every scene is different so there’s no magic formula to solve the problem. My best advice is to read the help docs on GI settings and experiment until you get acceptable results.
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I don’t think there’s a way to do it with the built-in Voronoi object, but the guy who coded it put that in his NitroBlast 2 plugin. You can see it at around the 4:20 mark of the first video here: https://nitro4d.com/product/nitroblast/
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Go to the Constraint tag’s basic tab and right-click on the word “priority”, and then click on “show help” in the pop up menu. You’ll get a basic explanation of priorities in Cinema.
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Cinema doesn’t have a built-in function for this, unfortunately. The best I can come up with would be to work on the objects UVs — breaking them up into the appropriate parts and then running the Relax UV command to flatten them.
Once that’s done you can create a python script using the code found here: https://code.vonc.fr/?a=16
Run the script on your object and it will create a flattened object from your UVW map. Tested in R18 and it works.
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Gravity is also in the project settings (which seems stupid).