Adam Trachtenberg
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You are making the shadows less intense with that setting, meaning that some light is leaking into the shadow.
Instead of using that setting you might want to adjust the contrast in the light’s Details tab.
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Does it generate a bug report? You can check by going to the prefs folder listed at the bottom of the C4D Preferences dialogue. There should be a bug_reports folder there. Check the date/time of the files, if there are any. If there are, send them to Maxon tech support and they may be able to tell you what the problem is.
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Oh, my bad. I think the easiest way to do that would be to use mograph selection tags, which you can use to localize effector influence.
Example: 11572_mographselections.c4d.zip
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You could cache your cloners with mograph cache tags and use the tag’s offset function.
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How about using a Random effector set to turbulence or noise in global space? Use in combination with a particle wind effect? Turn up the Dynamics tag’s Aerodynamcs: drag and lift parameters for a more pronounced effect.
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Do you have the most recent nVidia drivers installed? If not that could be the problem.
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I’m not familiar with the Plexus exporter. Any chance you can use Alembic export?
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The way this is generally done is with Boolean objects. Usually works well if the geometry isn’t too complex.
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On second thought it looks to be a little more complicated than I thought. The axis of rotation essentially changes because the mechanism uses a second set of rails at the top and bottom. Here’s a good illustration that was probably done in C4D: https://vimeo.com/5196298 You might contact Joel and ask him how he did it.
Meanwhile, here’s another quick attempt using a couple plane effectors at the top and bottom to get it closer to the mark:
11507_escalatorwip0001.c4d.zip
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You should be able to do it with the spline effector, but I think it’s a matter of getting the correct axis position/rotation for the clone. Here’s a quick test I did where the axis is off, but moving in the right direction as it were….