Thank you for sharing your workflow, much appreciated.👍

I have a graphic element that is set up in a grid that is very similar to isometric angles, and I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to set up a 3D environment in C4D and After Effects that can work with it.

I know a true isometric environment has angles of 30 degrees. This is similar, but the angles are at 26.2 degrees.

I have been able to set…

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I have a graphic element that is set up in a grid that is very similar to isometric angles, and I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to set up a 3D environment that can work with it.

I know a true isometric environment has angles of 30 degrees. This is similar, but the angles are at 26.2 degrees.

I have been able to set up an environment for…

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Another possible solution, I’ve noticed if I’m rendering into the media encoder to a compressed format (.h264) it has a higher potential for problems. I’ve found rendering directly out of AE into a ProRes format can fix certain issues.

Alexey, Sorry it’s been a while, and I usually post answers when I figure out answers here. I don’t remember exactly how this was solved. I think I played around with the samples in AO – RTAO and multisampling? I might have even hit a block and reverted to SSAO in AO. Sorry I can’t be more help. Good luck

Yeah, it was previously an octane model, and I adapted for Redhshift. It’s buried in the project. I was just hoping I could do a search vs. going through model layers. Thanks

Thanks for the feedback Kouraib, I’ve gone through and looked at the render settings, object manager and did not see anything. I also deleted any unused materials, and the few that are there look good. It seems like if there is a number associated with plugin, it would be something that I could search and locate. Thanks again

When I start up C4d I receive an error message that several plugins used in the project are missing. I know some of this is about the models previously rendered in Octane, and I’m using Redshift.

I want to remove them, so I don’t have this message at startup. The message has ID numbers, so I assume I can search via this number but don’t see any…

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I’ve created some Lottie banner animations in AE (bodymovin), and I can view the HTML file in Adobe Dreamweaver. I can see the vector animation just fine. but I can’t see the included bitmap .png files.
I can see the .png content when I load the .json on the Lottie test site, but I can’t see it in Dreamweaver.
I’ve tried different combinations of…

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I’m getting a couple error messages, and not sure what to make of it.

In the bottom of the Redshift RenderView is see a message:

“AOV: Multi-Part Direct output enabled, but no Direct AOVs detected. Disabling Multi-Part output.”

In the Redshift Feedback Display, for each pass I see this message (GI example):

Warning AOV: Global Illumination AOV ‘GI’ is…

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Hi, I was a beginner working with C4D before, and now with all the changes in S26, I’m finding it really difficult to get up to speed.

I have a simple scene where I want the beauty pass to use GI, and another separate render pass for just depth. I’m compositing in AE, so I really want my beauty pass to render without depth of field, so I can use…

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I’m in the process of updating my workstation and looking at different graphics cards. I’ve been pretty pleased with my current card – <font face=”inherit”>Nvidia Quadro P4000 – 8 GB for most AE work but have ran into issue when rendering Ambient </font>Occlusion<font face=”inherit”> with Element 3D. It is listed as a supported card on the Video C…

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I work for a small studio, and we’re looking into a DAM cloud storage system. It looks like there are quite a few options out there for asset storage with meta data, but really looking for an efficient system to backup working After Effects and Premiere projects. Ideally a way to mirror the folder hierarchy to easily retrieve projects with assets.…

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Okay, so I scaled up the object by 200%, and thought I had it figured out, but seems like it’s getting worse. Render freezes with obvious similar and more apparent artifacts. Strange, while previewing different frames in timeline, doesn’t present problems. But when I render, the whole thing crashes. I have a pretty good graphics card, that is…

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image of issue

Dealing with some strange rendering issues with Ambient Occlusion / Ray-Traced issues. On one frame, I get the accurate look I want. Then it disappears. Not really a flickering issue, but not getting consistent rendering through animation. When the shadow detail disappears, subtle banding is across the frame. I’ve experimented with many settings…

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Just seeing if anyone has experience with Google Web Designer and importing .json files (from Bodymovin After Effects plugin).

I found this post :

https://support.google.com/<wbr>webdesigner/thread/711417/<wbr>integrate-json-files-manually?<wbr>hl=en

My coding knowledge is really limited, and I was curious if anyone can shed light on this possible…

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I’ve worked with the Bodymovin plugin and have been able to create some really nice animations for websites, but this was in coordination with a web developer. I’m doing research into possibly using this workflow for other applications like Google Ads, but my coding skills are non-existent.

It seems like there are lots of different options out…

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Only had to go one page more into the forum.. Thanks to Nihad and Dan…

Move layer x pixels every nn frames and then stop

I’m trying to figure out what I thought might be a simple expression but haven’t been able to figure it out.

I have a a keyframe hold on y-position 1 – 10 frames, then moves 10 pixels down from frame 10 – 20, holds again for 10 frames. Repeat

I want to cycle this animation out, where the y-position data is added to current value.

My expression…

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Ahh, that was it… didn’t see I had scaled just the z scale on the null. Thanks!

I always use nulls when doing camera animation, but just had some unexpected results.

My camera and null are in the same 3d space, but when I parent the camera to the null, my focal length changes. I can see this happen visually (top and side perspectives of my scene), but the actual data on my focus distance stays the same.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Duhhh… Needed to normalize scale… overlooked that for some reason

I have a complex composition with both Element 3D objects and 3D “flat layers”. Everything looks good and matches up straight on, but if I shift perspective I get distortions on the side where the perspective looks off. Any ideas what the problem is, and how I might resolve this?

Any information is greatly appreciated!

Another strange issue. Before you described the solution, I created animation presets with the keyframe specification set to “in point” (not scaled). Even with that setting, I’m noticing small variances in keyframe animation when I paste the information..

Ah ha… thank you Herb. It looks like that was the issue ..

Appreciate the help!

Just wondering if anyone has run into this before.

I have a few effects using the motion (scale / position) and drop shadow. I reuse this animation multiple times throughout the project. I’ve noticed the duration of this effect shifts when I copy and paste between clips. It’s seems really bizarre. Does the amount I’m zoomed into the “Effect…

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Thanks for the feedback. I actually went with GarageFarm. The plugin works fine, and the price was very reasonable.

I’m new to C4D, but have a project where I have a small budget to get a project rendered. It was originally developed in R16, but I had to utilize the Redshift plugin for realistic metals and GI. Instead of buying the plugin, we went for an upgrade in C4D to 22 with the Redshift rendering plugin included.
I’ve been reviewing a few cloud rendering… Read more