Is this a particular project or is it something that happens all the time?

My client wants me to duplicate the light rays coming down in this, with them animating like a spike ball in rotation, rays poking in and out, rainbow chromatic effect, etc. I have optical flares and trapcode/red giant but can’t find a way to do this. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks!

Driving me nuts! When flapping, the texture is turning on and off at different points and only on one side of the object. I have tried different lighting but then tried with the material removed altogether and it appears to be something with the geometry itself. WTH is going on here?

I believe this is an After Effects issue that places the anchor point differently than it does in C4D. Check this tutorial where he discusses this and how to fix it – somewhere later in the tutorial, not exactly sure where:

I have tried everything and I cannot figure out how to rotate the shader in the node at the upper left hand corner. It’s driving me nuts. I just need the texture to sit vertically on the mountain instead of horizontally like it is.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ssy3ybzsvvw7pvg/RotateShader.c4d?dl=0

Since RS is now native in S26, I believe you can just use the multiple machine features in C4D

I believe you need to convert to illustrator paths in Photoshop first, then open as an illustrator file and save to Illustrator version 9. Then you can import the paths to C4D and they will all be there.

So, select your objects in Photoshop, then right click and select “make work path”
Then go to the “paths” window and select that path and then…

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I’m guessing this is done with a cloth tag but how do I attach all of the points around the perimeter to the frame in which it sits, so that when I animate the cone. the rubber bead around the edges flexes and stays stuck to frame properly? Thanks!

If I disconnect from the internet on the C4D computer, I can release the license and continue working on my desktop. I will then be sure to close C4D on my laptop and exit out of my project on my desktop before I log back in on the original computer. I’m sure they don’t like this but I have to work and I have paid for this usage.

On this kind of level, the program should be able to identify what’s going on and that I’m not using two programs concurrently. This is just WRONG. It needs fixing. I’m very upset about this.

I was opening a very heavy project one one computer in C4D that takes about an hour to open, so I went to work on my other computer in After Effects. The AE project has some Trapcode effects and was making me release my MAXON One license on the other computer! I would have had to shut down C4D in order to work in AE on this project. Please tell…

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I have a morph camera setup and the first two cameras see the light in question, but the third one “Camera 2” does not see it at all. I have tried everything and cannot figure out what’s going on. Anybody have any ideas? The light turns on towards the end of the animation so you have to go to about frame 725 or so:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xml…

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I have tried multiple projects on both my desktop and my laptop. I have “import mtl” checked and cannot see anything wrong. What is happening?

I’m working in a template that has a cool text animation on it that I want to use in another project. I am unable to identify what the preset is on the text layer, how do I find this?

This is in a template so I don’t know how it was created.

I’m wanting to give the edge of this shape layer some curves and all I see for paths is the one going across the middle of the screen. It’s the “BLUE LAYER”. What am I missing here?

I just bought a new laptop and it only has 2 SSD slots. On my desktop I use 3 different drives, one holds all of my project files in my Dropbox folder that continuously updates between both the desktop and laptop as I switch working between the two. The 2nd drive is for all of my cache folders for AE, and then of course, the C drive that AE is…

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I’m trying to round the 5 outer corners of the blue stroke, to match the roundness of the green checkmark and I cannot figure this out.