[Brian Jones]

some shader things have changed between versions but shaders are just loaded – check out File/Load Materials in the Material Manager, they don’t need to be put anywhere special (unless they have been grouped into a .lib4d file then they go in the Library/Browser etc)

[Brian Jones]

No results with inertia vector yet but a couple thoughts occur

-Dynamics is what you are after, can you use Dynamics (soft spring or something), Mocca (I’m thinking the dinosaur tail tutorial here), or a dynamic spline tag with Hair (probably a pain)

-how about faking it? copy the spline that the target object is likely following, paste that and tweek it to fake inertia then attach the camera to that.

[Brian Jones]

there is a free plugin called SOLObutton you can get to it from here https://www.c4dplugs.com/

[Brian Jones]

can’t tell, can you post a file?

[Brian Jones]

Maybe unrelated but recently I was having Server crash problems that stopped when I changed the server’s port from 8080

[Brian Jones]

put a Compositing Tag on the sky object (whichever it is) and uncheck ‘Seen by Camera’

[Brian Jones]

absolutely, open the F-Curve editor and select the keyframes of the path you want control over (all of them if you want) then set Interpolation L and Interpolation R to Custom (you can do it to a bunch of them not just one at a time). Just be sure to get all 3 values (X, Y, Z) for a given keyframe or the path doesn’t get handles in the editor window

[Brian Jones]

The manual has the best description (Texture Mapping/Texture Tag/Selection – pg 869 of the v9 manual) but basically you just choose the poly’s you want to have a particular texture, do a Selection/Set Selection (which makes a selection tag). Add the texture to the object, then drag the selection tag you just made into the Selection box of the Texture tag.

[Brian Jones]

if you have not got them yet, go to Maxon’s Downloads/Materials & Goodies section and get the Thinking Particles Presets Library and the 9.5.2 Library which contains another set of TP presets as well

[Brian Jones]

Parallel Spots (round and square) make shadows here. Can you post a scene?