Hello Greg,

https://we.tl/t-h42NoPXJvM

I did export in obj, fbx and saved the c4d file in 2024 version.

Hello Mauricio,

You will need to select the polygons you need and then select the polygon selection tag on the model and press the update button.

Hello Paul,

If you scale your object proportionally (equal scale on all axis), then your UW will remain the same. On the other hand, if you want to scale it unproportionally, you will have to fix your UW.

Hello Richard,

Live selection should have a circle. If you don’t want the circle you can reduce its size to 1 (check my image)

Hello,

Also bear in mind that in general Apple Silicon at the moment is not an amazing choise if you have very high demands from Cinema 4D. If you look at the Cinebench Scores (which is Cinema 4D rendering Speeds)

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-list/cinebench-scores

you realise that M series falls back.

I would suggest you to do this. Create a new project and copy everything from the tongue scene inside the new project. You will only have to redo the project and render settings.

Hello Aaron,

Can you record yourself doing that, in order for us to see what you are doing it?

There are many ways to make this happen

For example

If you have enabled the “Autokeying” and you do:

1) Go to frame 10

2) Set position to 20 on y

3) Change position to 80 on y

5) Go to frame 50

Then you obviously have changed your frame 10.

Sorry Mike,

I didn’t understand your question correctly.

For example, in the pyro emitter tag you can use the enable/disable toggle.

You can keyframe it disabled till 139 frame and enable it on the 140.

Hello Mike,

there is “Start emission” option on the emiter. Set that to 140 and the emiter will start on the 140 frame. Make sure to set the “Stop emission” option on the emiter a bigger value.

Hello Mauricio,

If you want to only change the material applied to your model, you can convert its colors to a cartoonish style. There are many online sites, which can do that.

On the other hand If you want a proper cartoon head, there is no easy way to do that (unless there is a plugin that I am not aware of). You will need to reconstruct your also…

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Hello Mauricio,

On the “Axis Center” setting the Y to -100% will do something different.

It will move the pivot axis for each object, in its lowest Y position, according to its structure.

If you follow Andy’s method, then you don’t move all pivot Axis points to exact 0. Instead you are moving them to average 0. That means that if your objects have…

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I think you can, but it is also time consuming to do that.

Hello Mikhail,

You can actually use an image sequence. It’s just time consuming. You will have to keyframe all filenames as my image. You will have to expand the shader and keyframe each different file. It is not ideal. As for the “lossless” video file, what kind of file are you putting? Can you share a part from that lossless video file?

Hello Martin,

You need to change in the guide section the root from polygon vertex to polygon or polygon area or polygon center. Then it works.

Hello Maxi,

Modern versions of After Effects support c4d files natively, so you don’t have to convert anything. You just need Cineware and to install the Cinema 4D addon in After Effects.

You can check this

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/c4d.html

for more help on how to do it.

Propably he means that he switched from Cinema 4D R19 to another software and now he is back to a more modern version of Cinema 4D. I don’t remember that toggle he says but he can achieve this with the protection tag as my video.

Hello Andrew,

The easiest way to rotate the camera in its axis is to press f2 (top view) then change the axis to world [w shortcut] and rotate the camera on its axis.

Alternatively, you can use the protection tag and unlock only rotation axis on it. So, only the rotation will be allowed to change.

Hello, You can bake the animation. This way all the mograph calculations became keyframes. Check the mograph cache tag.

No you can’t do it like that.

The volume builder’s purpose is to create a connected volume out of shapes. Everything you put in there gets connected or subtracked.

So the procedure is this:

1) In the hierarchy you put as top object the Volume Mesher. As a child you put the Volume Builder and as a child the objects.

2) You will need to have f…

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What you can do is to have a big number in voxel just to have a very smooth viewport and when you are about to render it, decrease the voxel to a very small number. You will not be able to see it in the viewport but it will not have an effect on the render time.

Hello Mauricio,

You can find the length of a spline here (check my video).

I got confused on what you said.

But by guessing, you can add inbetween a math node in which you can do calculations and you can also keyframe them.

Hello Mauricio,

Is this what you were looking for?

Hello Tom,

Would the Volume Mesher – Builder work for you?

You can create a cube big enough to cut your object and on the volume builder set that cube as substract.

Hello Don,

I made a simple scene that you can see in the video I uploaded, which should demonstrate a very basic setup on how to achieve what you asked (If I understood correctly from your context.)

Let me know.

Hello Michael,

If you have the ability to upgrade (or already did) to Cinema 4D 2024, then you can use this.

1) In Cinema 4D 2024, Maxon improved the phong tag and added a new feature. If you now select any phong, there is a new option called Style. If you select Square Area Weighted, then 99% of the time your problems gets fixed. (see 1.jpg)

2) If…

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The busID:0 is most of the times the GPU and since in M1 the GPU is inside the CPU chip, it should be it. If you want redshift to use both gpu and cpu for rendering you should enable hybrid rendering.
As for the other things you asked.

1) Redshift is paid software and there is no free version available.

2) Earlier Redshift versions might not be…

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Hello Mauricio,

You haven’t provided the most important detail. Which render engine do you use?

1) If you use the standard render engine, then unfortunatelly you can’t use GPU. The standard render engine is a CPU render engine only.

2) If you use the physical render engine then you can’t use GPU as well, for the same reason as the CPU.

3) If you use…

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Hello Michael,

You can use the rope simulation as I demonstrate in my video.

Hello,

First of all,

1) No, wind force doesn’t (necessary) apply to the whole scene. Thats what fields are for.

Using fans to achieve this can be tricky to fine tune it. Here is a super fast way for me to replicate something like what you asked. You can fine tune it to much your liking. In the video you see the result and in the image you see how the…

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Hello Bart,

A very fast way to get away with the missing plugins is to create a new scene and copy and paste the models. Cameras and lighting that was created with Octane don’t copy them. As for the materials you can delete them and remake them from scratch.

Hi Kouraib,

Even if the split beam is disabled, cubes are going thru the deflector.

These are the 2 ways to do it.

Hello Mauricio,

When you move the deflectors, there is a a frame where the moving deflector gets past the cube and so the cube can not be deflected any more.

The easy way to counter it is to put a destructor behind the deflector, so the cubes that gets past the deflector gets destroyed.

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If you want to create liquids, you have 3 options.

1) Use metaball (worst method)

2) Use Volume Mesher-Builder. Here are some videos that might help you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU983FwpXiM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhA0z8Oguf0

3) Use external plugins like X-Particles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib8u8avtFRs

Hello Michael,

There you are. I hope this is what you wanted.

It’s not visible on your video, cause it is cropped. Next to enable move, do you have enabled only the y axis?

Hello,

A rough procedure to create something like this is:

1) You need to have first the sand model (like a very small cube or whatever you like). Avoid something with a lot of polygons.

2) Create 4 emiters from 4 sides to emit the sand model in the center. This is to simulate the sand coming from all directions. Make the emiters big enough to your…

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If you have an earlier version of Cinema 4D and doesn’t have this, you can use the transfer tool.

1) Again create something and place it at 0 height.

2) Select all objects you want to move

3) Go to tools -> Transfer

4) Place the object that it is in 0 height in the “Transfer To” section

5) Deselect all options and leave only the “Enable Move” + “Y”…

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Hello, The easiest way to do it is:

1) Creating a big plane at 0 height (big enough so all objects can touch it)

2) Select all your objects

3) Select dynamic place

4) Move them all at y axis and all of them will stop at 0

You can watch my video how to do it. Its pretty easy.

I tweaked your scene a little bit which (i think) fixed your issue. As I see it, the issue was that the material blender was creating something like an “alpha effect” for super close objects (thats why my plane wasn’t visible, cause it was too far away). I changed the change range node so there are not total black areas and the “alpha effect” is… Read more

Hello Veronica,

What you are asking is kind of very specific. Maybe if you can share the .c4d file and explain with more detail the issue, someone might be able to find a solution.

Hello, I dont really see any kind of transparency in the white material. If there was, I would be able to see the blue plane I put behind. What I see is a lot of noise.

I have requested access twice so far. Having a google drive link with access requests might not be ideal.

Hello,

Without all the textures, the .c4d file alone isn’t any help.

Hello,

I have tinkered a little bit with the settings and I got to a point where the needles don’t vibrate. I baked the animation so it runs realtime. You can clear the cache and it will play .

I can implement that to my file. If you want me to please let me know. If you already found the solution then we are good.

Hello Tim,

I don’t know if they can found the files. I have created one test scene that might do what you want.

By moving the chair the wheels are rotating the amount of the travel they did. As you can see in the video, the text spline shows the angle the wheels are rotating and it is just for testing.

Hello Joanpablo,
It doesn’t fail apart. It doesn’t give you the result you want, cause your splines are not correct.
At first glance, when you replace the circle spline from my file with your spline, you see that the result is like this. (image 1).
If you change the “Spline Wrap” mode to “Keep Length”, you suddently see that it works, but only for…

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Hello Hans,

I don’t understand exactly your issue. Maybe showing some photos or uploading a cinema 4d file can help to better demonstrate what you want to achieve.