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I am working in c4d trying to get water to render properly but it keeps looking like an opaque material. attached you can see the material and the ocean plane it is applied to. How can I fix this and make the material render properly?

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my lights work great in octane when they are outside of a geometry, however |I am attempting to light the inside of a sphere, octane seems to not calculate light interactions within a geometry interior by default

how can I make lights work properly within a geometry when using octane in c4d?

Unfortunately I’m already on quarter and this happens

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I am working on a series of videoes that use displacement maps via mettle freeform

these videos are currently taking forever to render even on a very fast rtx 2070 gpu, I am still getting an estimate of 4.5 hours for 1 minute of footage

Can anyone recommend any other methods of working with 3d displacement maps that render more efficiently in…

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crazy n00b question even though Ive been using AE for 11 years

very simple

what is the best way to playback the currently rendered frames at full speed?

I’m on a machine with a fast gpu rtx 2070 , and even when I have the frames pre-rendered with the green line above them- the frames start playing back full speed then the audio dips into slo mo…

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I am trying to write an expression that has multiple states – if the audio signal is below 60, it wiggles, if the audio signal is above 60 then the wiggle behavior is overridden by a spin behavior

I have the two separate expressions here- what is the proper syntax to combine them and make them work as described above?

bamm=…

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For the last hour I have been scouring the internet desperately trying to find where the render settings are in photoshop that allow for changing anti aliasing settings etc

WHERE ARE THEY????

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Could anyone please recommend a way to bake subdivided displacement maps from a material into the geometry of the object so that it does not need to calculate the displacement map for each render?

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I am currently trying to use trapcode form to animate particles swirling within the boundaries of a mesh volume, but it seems Form is not particularly well suited to creating particle movement beyond general dispersion or using fractal fields

Is anyone aware of a tool or plugin for after effects that will allow me to specify more specific…

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No I realize that I will have to place lights and this sort of thing, but many people online as well as myself have noticed how out of the box the modo render engine produces much more dynamic/lush renders than c4d and in many cases modo rivals vray without any tweaking

I realize that I will need to light+ prepare the scene~ however I am hoping to…

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I am hoping to find a quick and dirty way to get gorgeous emotionally lit renders out of C4D similar to what is possible with modo out of the box~ does anyone have any tips on the best setups/ configurations to achieve this? I realize what I am speaking about is broad, but I mean dramatic sunsets bursting with color, reflective surfaces that…

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Thank you so much for this~ is there a way to do it to control the distribution so that the berries are randomly sized/rotated etc?

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I have a mesh that I made that I would like to populate with berries ( a cartoon human form) ~ I would basically like to replace the mesh with an approximation of the mesh reconstructed out of berries, as if you had the body sculpted out of a pile of fruit

What is the best way to achieve something like this in c4d in a quick and dirty way? I…

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I am hoping to find cloud work stations that are equipped with high end graphics cards etc for doing 3D work remotely~ I am familiar with Vagon but I am wondering if there are any alternatives out there that are more competitively priced

Would be extremely grateful to hear any suggestions

Thank you so so much!

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I am trying to make it so that the variable ‘rates’ is set to 500 if the variable ‘temp’ is above 60, and rates is set to 150 if temp is below 60

rates = if(temp>60){500} else {150}

When I use that syntax it fails

My entire syntax is:

temp = thisComp.layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”)/30;

rates = if(temp>60){500} else…

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thank you!!

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If I have a very jagged graph of keyframes generated from an audio signal, what is the best way to smooth the values to make the linked motion less jerky?

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I am attempting to control the speed that a layer rotates at using audio volume (audio boosts, layer spins faster)

I know how to link audio keyframes to a parameter- but the problem here is that by default in after effects you tell a layer to rotate by specifying a fixed degree value rather than a constant rate of speed that produces…

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I made a similar post to this yesterday but now I am back with some clarity and a better example video

I made the following example video on an iPhone running the app EFEKT using the ‘flow’ preset

I posted yesterday hoping to find a way to implement something similar in after effects but Michael Szalapski responded that they anticipated I wou…

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Sorry for some reason cow wouldn’t let me upload my example, you can view it at the link below

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x4t0JUt87pW-HDsGLbxxyKOqzKl6yaTq/view?usp=drivesdk

Thank you so much for this!!

What about an effect similar to the one in the attached video? This was created using the FLOW effect in the EFEKT ios app

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I am struggling to find an example of what I am after, however I am hoping to find a way to implement and effect in after effects that makes the edges of objects bleed/undulate together

for example, if I have a video of someone walking infront of a bush wearing a jacket, the edges of the jacket would curl and undulate like rippling feather or…

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Hello!

I am trying to make particular emit an folder full of photos so it is constantly spitting out new photos

I followed this tutorial here~

but it seems the GUI has since been updated and ‘custom’ is no longer a valid particle type

Does anyone have any idea how to set up something similar in more recent versions of…

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