Brian Jones
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COW Coins
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Maxon C4D Coins
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Weirdness, Illustrator circles have 4 points not 8 and there is no preference in C4D for importing Illustrator splines differently than Bezier that I know of (which may not mean much) what about Illustrator 8 Legacy .ai file instead of .eps?
10.4.11, 10.506, CS
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You could bake the texture, which turns it into an image
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I don’t have much experience reducing polys but I just tried a simple test and it doesn’t crash with my configuration. Maybe memory? If it happens reproducibly maybe it’s something to send to MAxon support though.
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there were some commercial plugins available for poly-reduction – don’t know if any of them work with 10+ (you might want to search here https://www.c4dplugs.com/). In 10 there is a poly reduction deformer
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In Illustrator if you want to make a shape with a hole in it (an ‘A’ or an ‘O’ for example) you have to join them into a compound path so that it knows to make a hole in the fill with the next spline in. C4D uses Connecting splines together to do the same thing, so since you have 300+ splines all in the same Connect – some closed, some open, some enclosing others but not for a purpose like in an ‘O’…. yeah it would be pretty nuts alright.
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Close Spline should be the second from the top in the Object Tab of the Attribute Manager when the spline is selected
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You’re adding to a selection tag, yes? Select the Selection Tag hit Restore Selection add your windows to the selection, then with the selection tag still selected choose Set Selection again.
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and more…
Create a sphere but scale it with the Attribute Manager settings not the axis. Then you can apply a Taper.
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I don’t think “burning” is the right word. You don’t have to increase anything beyond 100% (that’s just the easy way) – you just need 100% specular and ‘not phong’. Go to go but quickly but remember nothing in nature is white – and when this experiment is done in the classroom do you think the lights are perfect Red, Green, Blue – not likely. They almost certainly have a mixture that is predominant in one color but in 3D we can have perfect lights of only one color so it needs a perfect specular to get it all to bounce back to us as white.
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Assuming you have falloff turned off or are within it’s inside radius and have the spot lights ‘Use Inner’ turned off (Details tab) or have a non zero Inner Angle…
You have a number choices
1 – crank the intensity of the lights to over 100 (200 works)2 – play with the material on the plane/floor/wall
-take the intensity of the Color channel of the material to over 100 (200 works)
-in the material’s Specular tab increase height/Falloff to 100 Width to whatever works for you.
-in the Illumination tab of the material experiment with Blinn or Oren-Nayar instead of just Phong they are more accurate(?) and will give different results in combination with Specular changes.