Joe Bird
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you may be experiencing gimble lock….
so try this… 1. Enable use rail direction
2, duplicate your spline right below itself, same level of hierarchy, 3. offset the spline manually. Pull the points until the sweep image is smooth all the way around..
its a bit of work but sometimes the only way to avoid those bad intersections. -
It looks like a repeating “tiled” texture to me, Is there a texture applied? If so, try UVW mapping, and apply, “fit to object” under the texture options and see if that helps.
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Kurt, I have successfully put c4d generated 3ds files into lyric, but never with Invigorator in the pipline.
So the short answer is… try an experiment with c4d only generated models and see if that works. I couldn’t begin to guess what the difference would be. Also try removing all texture maps from your models. Its my experience that Max is the only 3d app that successfully transfers the textures with the 3ds model. Let us know your results please…and good luck -
You need to add an external compositing tag to the object, this will appear in your ae comp as a null.
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The missing part of this equation is the importing of the C4d camera. You will need to import the.aec file that is generated when you enable “compositing Project file” in C4d’s save image window (under render settings). You will need the c4d plug-in in your Ae plug-ins in order to import the camera and light data. Also, there is an external compositing tag that enables you to get the exact position of your object relative to the camera. this is particularly useful when objects are moving independent of the camera.
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Congrats and excellent decision, Welcome to the world of C4d.The web’s full of help for C4d. A couple of on-line links: http://www.c4dcafe.com (register and behold the massive amounts of tutorials) also https://www.cineversity.com/ where you can get free and pay tutorials based upon your needs. Look around the web, the one of the things I love about C4d is the international input this software attracts.
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at c4dcafe.com there’s a tutorial on using the TPsurface emitter, with a scene file….
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I opened up your file and noticed that the orientation of the path spline was not +Z. This may be the problem, as the rectangle flips on the wrong axis as it negotiates the corner. See the fix .c4d file at http://www.birdhausdesign.com/public/
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Ouch! Its a tough deal when you lose that amount of rendering time.
your problem, as you probably know at this point, is you have selected an inferior compression setting to render to. The solution: don’t do that. Make your render lossless, pristine, as pretty as possible. Example: .avi with none compression, quicktime with animation or none compression, targa sequence, etc. Then, after the render is finished, re-encode it to a setting suitable for your delivery method. How do I re-encode it you might ask? One inexpensive solution is to get quicktime pro, which will export in a varity of formats. I’m certain there’s a myriad of solutions that range from cheap to really expensive, but the point is… don’t waste that render time, invest some extra time in tweaking the compression after the fact. -
I think your AE plug-in is out of date. Check inside your c4d install, ie, in a pC look in the Maxon folder and find the Exchange Plugins folder, look in the AE folder and use the 6.5 version, which works ok with 7.