Hi Alex,

Thanks so much! Really appreciate the time taken to do a detailed video!

Hello all,

So lately I’ve been using a lot of grain and textures in the illustrations in my projects. I don’t really need the grain or textures to be animated, I’m happy to have them static – My concern is how best to add the grain? Do I bring it in from Illustrator as a vector texture or from Photoshop as a png or is that a bad idea?

I tried…

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Thank you so much Ralph, This is very helpful!

Not sure if this should be obvious or not.. Is recreating your design (created in Illustrator) within after effects using shape layers/lines etc. best practice to have maximum control over your animations? Importing an illustrator design (after separating into layers) does not appear to give me all the options when compared to recreating them…

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ah, ok, I thought, the attractor object fixed this issue, sorry and thanks a ton!

Hi, I was following along to a youtube tutorial on a bullet striking glass and shattering it simulation. here –

However at a point down the line he starts using an attractor object and I noticed that the settings are not the same as in my settings and that the tutorial is from 2016. Basically, I…

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I just tested the tutorial on a new file and it works fine, must be some weird settings in my other file, So issue sorted, Thanks!

Hi Justin, Thanks for trying to help, I’m just messing around and practising right now, so the file will look a mess for sure. I’ve attached it here. The pillow is just an image applied on a plane. Basically I want the gun to look like it’s resting on the photo of the pillow and what I’m trying to do is get the gun to ‘cast’ a shadow on the…

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I found a tutorial online for shadow catchers however it is a few years old and the interface looks different.. I’m on Cinema 4d S24 and latest version of Octane..

yes, the grid is on the plane (same size) that I’ve applied the shadow catcher too. It probably is the alpha like you are saying, I’m pretty sure it’s something basic but not sure how to stop this alpha channel from displaying in the Octane live viewer?

Hi, New to Octane + C4D. Couldn’t find a forum for Octane related queries so I’m posting here. I’m trying to use a shadow catcher but it leaves this chequered transparency grid. Can someone tell me how to get rid of this? Thanks!