All good points, John. I appreciate all your input.

I found a Mojave installer direct from Apple that I was able to use, but many of my apps ran slow in Mojave (and some not at all) so I reverted back to High Sierra. Interestingly enough, that installer never made reference to my graphics card and simply installed from the .dmg.

Thanks again.

Thanks John. In re-reading the web page for “Install macOS 10.14 Mojave on Mac Pro (Mid 2010) and Mac Pro (Mid 2012)” I now see that my graphics card is not one of the two Nvidia cards listed as compatible. The first time I looked at it I assumed that the System Report check for Metal support was sufficient, but I guess not. I also wasn’t aware of…

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I have a Mid-2012 Mac Pro running High Sierra (10.13.6) and have purchased a Mojave install USB stick from Amazon. After booting from the USB stick, a macOS Utilities window comes up and I select “Install macOS” and click “Continue.” An “Install macOS” window appears which says, “Installing Mojave on this Mac requires that all graphics cards have…

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Hi Hamad,

Thanks for sharing your work — it looks nice. As far as offering tips, I would suggest just finding an image, animation, or model that you like and work on reproducing it. As you’ve likely found, there are lots of tutorials out there — some better than others. Concerning good modeling tutorials, I have been impressed by polygonpen’s.…

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I should have also mentioned that you could select all the objects, and then with the cursor over one of the selected objects, right click and select “Group Objects,” which is where you will also see the keyboard shortcut listed.

To group objects put them all in a null, either by selecting them all and using the keyboard shortcut ALT + G, or by adding a null to the scene and dragging them all into it as children. You can then move the null to move all the objects together.

Hilary,

You are very gracious and diplomatic. I’m glad if I helped, but perhaps I overlooked something myself in the tutorial (wouldn’t be the first time, nor the last). Thanks for your kindness.

Make the sphere a child of a Subdivision Surface and increase the subdivisions as necessary to smooth it.

When you switch to Edge mode and hover your cursor over an edge, what happens? Does the edge become highlighted like a polygon or point does when you do the same in Polygon or Point mode, and just not become selected when clicked on? More info would be helpful.

Thanks for the follow-up Hillary. Just to clarify, you must be in MODEL mode for the outline to appear. The fact that you were in POLYGON mode was my explanation as to why you weren’t getting it.

Set up the dimensions and segments of the base cube so that its polygons will be squares when it’s made editable and you’ll be able to select a square of polygons to extrude. In your case, the Y segments aren’t important, but for my example I made them all proportional.

I just hit the camera icon at the bottom of the reply window and dragged the screenshot into the resulting box. I think because it was a small screenshot it didn’t get cut off like larger ones will. The COW’s upload and display process has changed over the years and is sometimes less than optimal.

The “why?” is because they want to mess with your head. I’m guessing that is a change in R24, because I don’t remember seeing a prior version (at least through R22) that had the Objects dialogue box in that order. Unless I’m losing my mind it’s always been PSR as pictured below. And I don’t know of any preference setting to change it.

Other than simple stuff, I’m basically ignorant concerning TP and your projects are definitely over my head. Good luck.

Hi Steve,

I can’t recreate your issue, at least with older versions of C4D (R19-R22) and simple setups using the Standard or Physical renderers. When I create a hair material, “Hair Render” is automatically added and enabled in the Render Settings, and the tracer renders fine both in the Viewport and Picture Viewer. Are you using another renderer?…

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Great tips Steve.

Any response would be nice.

Hi Steve, welcome back.

Unfortunately I don’t have any solutions for you, but didn’t want you to feel ignored. I’m on a Mac on R22 but experience the same annoying scroll wheel behavior that you do, so I pretty much avoid using it at all in C4D. As for the interface colors, I’ve tried a few times to look for particular ones but found the process…

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Hi Hilary,

As I look at your images again the fact that the cube’s polygons are in blue tells me that you were in polygon mode (or edge or point mode) when you grabbed the screenshot. When you select model mode with the cube selected in the object manager you should get the orange outline. If that’s not happening when you have outlines enabled in…

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Did you try the other options in that section of the preferences… Bounding Box and Wireframe… and if so, do any of them appear? I hate to ask, but I want to make sure we’re not overlooking anything — do you have the cube selected in the object manager?

Keyframe the “Enable” setting for the Align to Spline tag. Check it on in the beginning so that the camera will follow the spline, and then at the point you want to freely animate the camera make another keyframe with the check removed.

I think what you want is in Preferences > Viewport Display — Object Selection and enabling “Outlines.” If that’s not it, please upload a screenshot.

Glad to help. Some things you might want to play around with are adding noise to a light, or possibly creating an overlay that doesn’t turn with the object. Just some thoughts — I’ve never tried to do this before so I may play around with it myself. And if you’re lucky a brighter mind will chime in.

Good luck with your project. I will write back…

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Thanks for sharing the file. You didn’t have the Luminance channel settings with your original post, but now I see that you are using a cel texture with “Use Bump” enabled, and that is what is causing the fizzing effect. The render settings aren’t an issue.

If you want that grainy shadow look to remain still when the object turns you’ll need to…

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Hi Shaun,

Since the animation speed and movement settings are both 0 the noise isn’t animating or moving. If it was you would see the “fizzing” effect even when the object wasn’t turning. What I think is happening is the bump texture catching the light along the edge as the object turns. I can’t duplicate it with a standard material and renderer…

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OK, thanks for the follow-up.

Are you saying that the project file itself goes from 24 mb to 4 gb after you export the obj sequence? The folder containing that sequence of obj files could be 4 gb if the individual obj is sufficiently large enough, but I don’t know why the project file would increase. If that’s what’s happening, could you walk through the steps you’re taking…

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Did it work?

If I am understanding you correctly, try placing the two in a boole set to A union B and select “Create single object,” and make the boole a child of the Voronoi Fracture. If I’m NOT understanding you correctly, this will cause the annihilation of all matter in the universe, so be careful.

If you are thinking of using an attractor to pull the broken pieces back together — to “unshatter the glass” — the problem is that when a transparent material is used the edges of those pieces will always be visible, which is why the tutorial used the technique mentioned in my previous comment.

At around 17:50 in the video he shows how to quickly switch between the plain pane of glass and the shattered one so as to create the realistic effect of an instantaneously shattered pane of glass. If you haven’t watched that far, is that what you want to do?

The simplest way would be to import an image file as a texture.

Deselect “Reset Coordinates” for the cloner and the clones will inherit the animation.

Sorry you had issues with downloading. For some reason I couldn’t upload images yesterday, so perhaps the COW server was having problems. I will certainly pass it along if I come across an explanation or solution for the visibility tag issue.

Good luck with your project.

Edit: I just tried to download the project file and got the same error message…

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Here’s the modified project file (set the render to .mov and lowered the resolution just to make it faster to render).

The COW seems to be having issues with uploading an image. I’ll post the sample project file next.

This is a perplexing issue, and so far I have no clue as to why it is occurring. To get the display tag visibility fade to work properly either reflectance or the Sky object must be off. In order to get a similar look as your original one but without the Sky object, and keep reflectance for the two lights, I added an Environment channel to the…

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Hi Brian,

Just as you mentioned, I understand a normal as referring to a polygon’s orientation (like a vector pointing outward from it) and which thus defines its front face.

Here’s an excerpt from the Help files for “Align Normals” which may help:

Why are Normals needed?

Cinema 4D cannot easily recognize an object’s inner and outer surface without…

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Thanks Richard. I misunderstood your first post, but I see what you’re talking about now. Nothing comes to mind immediately, but I will play with it and get back to you.

I guess not.

I can’t reproduce the issue, at least as I understand it. Could you please post your project file?

To smooth the extrusion you want the steps to be closer together, so you actually want to increase the number of points in the spline, not reduce them. To do so in C4D, increase the “Number” setting in the spline’s attributes until you get the desired result.

(And it looks like you found the “cubic” option)

You figured it out yourself. That seems pretty smart to me.

If this is happening in every project, then I would suspect a bug. If only in this one, then I would guess that the project has gotten corrupted and you could try copying everything into a new project and setting up the render there.

Could you post the project file so that we could see your setup?

You’re very welcome. Glad I could help.

Here’s info from the Help files on the Connect object. I’m guessing that welding the sub-points of the objects in the Connect is causing the erratic interactions between the spheres cloned onto them. You can also get rid of that unwanted motion by reducing the “Tolerance” setting (.01, for example), but I don’t think you need to enable Weld at all.

I would suggest uploading the project file. It would be a lot easier for someone to find the problem if they could see the project.

If you’re just trying to drop a fractured object on to a plane and have it break apart on impact, your setup should like the one below. If that doesn’t help, please upload your project file.