I managed to get it working. It ended up being a hierarchy issue — I received some feedback on the correct structure, set it up with one train rig without individual cars, and that solved things. Everything works correctly on Tracks 01 and 02.

However, on Track 03 we can’t get the bogies to orient properly using the Rail Path. Using the RIGHT rai…

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Hi Kouraib,

Thank you so much for this — really helpful suggestions. I will test it I appreciate you taking the time to explain it.

Regarding the coupler issue I have been going in circles trying different constraint combinations and a fresh pair of eyes on the actual setup would be i…

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Hi everyone,

I’m rigging a roller coaster train in Cinema 4D 2025 and running into two persistent issues. Would really appreciate any experience or advice.

THE SETUP

The train has four cars with five bogies total:

– Car 1 has a front and rear bogie

– Cars 2, 3 and 4 each have one rear bogie

The track system has three connected splines:

– Track 01 — t…

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this is the issue I’m having and a screenshot of the way I build the steam as well as the red icon is showing on the alembic file. any advice would be great!

Hi there, I have animated a flower with a growing effect and on the
steam sequence I have used a spline and MoSpline objects, all good up
there but when I bake it as alembic the file is coming with red “a” icon
which after some forums help I did found out the point count is
changing throughout the animation so when I re-texture the alembic file
the…

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Hi, I have animated a Helix spline with a formula and a field (for a guitar string) and I’ve used the sweep generator to get the different string thickness. but I have been asked to apply a very specific material detail which I will make in Substance painter so my issue is to UV unwrap the sweep which I assume it must be make editable in order to… Read more