Adam Trachtenberg
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You might have snapping turned on, but even if you do, just selecting a point/edge/poly shouldn’t cause it to snap. You can access the snap settings by hitting the p key, or by clicking on the rotate tool and looking in the tool properties (snap settings tab).
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It’s possible with Xpresso, but a bit of a pain depending on how many words you have in your text. Here’s an example:
https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/Trace%20Words.c4d
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Pyrocluster would be your best bet. There’s also this plugin which would produce better results(https://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=47&t=749981) but it’s in early beta.
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Yes, as I said originally, joints are only necessary if you have a single-mesh model that you want to bend, as opposed to multiple models that don’t bend. You can think of it as if the separate models are behaving like the joints with an IK-only solution. So instead of creating the joints and binding, you would set up the separate models in a joint-like heirarchy and apply IK directly to them.
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Are you not using IK?
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Again, it’s a very big topic. I suggest you check out this tutorial: https://www.c4dcafe.com/ipb/index.php?autocom=downloads&showfile=15
You’ll probably have to register but it’s free.
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If nothing bends you can animate strictly with IK — no bones or joints necessary. Otherwise you will need joints, weight tags, and a skin deformer.
Range Mapper is just an xpresso node that converts a range of inputs to a different range of outputs. It might be used in a character rig but it’s not a character animation tool in itself.
CA is too big a topic to explain in a forum post. I suggest you check out the tutorials that came with Cinema and some online tutorials at C4DCafe, etc.
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Yes; use the “make editable” or “current state to object” command.
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Very weird. I would report it to Maxon tech support and see what they say.
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It sound like you may have turned on filters for the Object Manager. Click the eye icon at the top-right of the OM and make sure that eye icons inside are all turned on.