[Adam Trachtenberg]

So you want an extruded logo wrapped around a sphere? In that case I’d use the extrude nurbs, check “regular grid” in the caps options and set a low number for it (lots of subdivision), and then use a Wrap deformer on the extruded text.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Look in the Extrude object’s Caps tab: fillet with rounding.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

I’m guessing you probably need to use more spheres. Jeremy may have also used the same noise (clipped) in the bump channel to give an appearance of thickness.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

AFAIK there’s no way to turn off hotkeys. If you’re using an old preferences you might want to delete the hotkeys file from the prefs folder, which should restore the defaults.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Add a spotlight to your scene and check the volumetric box in the light’s “general” tab.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Also, you can get Michael Welter’s free SplineConnector plugin if you want to use multiple splines in a sweep object: https://www.welter-4d.de/fplugs/freeplugins_en.html

[Adam Trachtenberg]

> Hey everyone, just got the demo of c4d and I must say, I’m
> really impressed. Although rendering with GI and radiosity is
> slower and a lesser quality than brazil r/s

Hm, I don’t know about that. You might want to study the GI controls a little more.

> c4d is great for
> motion graphics and particles. I wonder if you can import a
> particle animation into max from cd4?

Probably not, but I’m not sure.

> Well anyways, I’ve only been messing around with c4d for a
> couple minutes and I have a couple of questions. First off, is it
> possible to make the object of the emitter a tile?

Yes, go to Objects>Object Library>Polygon Emitter. This is a preset for Thnking Particles that causes any object to emit particles.

> Basically I’m
> trying to make just a basic splash blobish effect with metaballs
> with the exception of square droplets. Secondly, is it possible
> to add motion blur to the metaballs? I’ve tried to with the cam
> but no use.

It’ll work with scene or vector motion blur, but not object motion blur. Or rather, the latter just doesn’t work with particles, not metaballs specifically.

> My last question is, is it possible to create a
> complex particle animation and just export the alpha of it and
> add the shading in after effects
or combustion? Thanks

Yeah, sure. Just add a compositing tag with an object buffer to your particle object(s), then add the buffers to your multipass file.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Can you explain what you mean when you say you came close? What did you try?