Ive just realised more problems with this project file now, the lighting has all changed too. but only in another take. I have changed no settings since update and it was rendering fine. Has the new update change lighting parameters for intensity/exposure in the new update? That is insane if so. Or another bug….

Further inspection seems to be something to do with the animated ‘growth’ attribute. Turning this off they rendered fine. But to keep the growth animation I needed to pull all the sweep nurbs out of the group into the top heirarchy then it works again.

WHY is this not visible until rendering a sequence??? yet another bug discovered. What version is…

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Cinema seems to be getting worse and more erratic the longer I use it.

Tried to re-render a scene that I already had rendered perfectly. I had left some objects switch on accidentally in the take, so i turned them off and re-rendered.

The result was a mess of geometry completely distorting. Attached is the image of the viewport looking as it…

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Working on a drone show. There is a software that converts project files into the necessary .PATH files that can be read by the drone operation software. Contains info for position and color. I use C4D to animate, and the plugin does not
work. The work around is to export as Alembic , import into Blender
where the plugin DOES work, then export…

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Is anyone using the take system anymore? I am spending as much time creating things as problem shooting / trying to fix bugs with the system

– Randomly changing camera focal lengths across takes (purely random, no overrides set)
– Changing light colour as an override sometimes changes the master, which should literally be the only thing that should…

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Any help on this one? Anyone have any ideas?

Okay, so here is a very simple example of what I am trying to achieve.

The plain effector is controlling the colour. I need this to be baked into the sphere material to be exported as either an FBX or an alembic (As I then need to import and export as .PATH from Blender)

Right now it is just a standard material with the color shader plugged into…

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I dont want to use python to achieve this, there must be a simpler way to bake the colour created from the effectors to either an alembic or an FBX within C4D.

Anyone else have specific instructions on how to do this please?

There is no ‘bake animation’ option

This is still a huge problem, is there a bug with the system? ‘Current take to new document’ is not a solution, it erases all of my takes.

So it has been working okay, then today for some reason, when i change the light colour in one take, it affects the other. They are both child takes of the master, this makes no sense as is completely broken.

Wha…

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Thanks very much, this seems to do the trick! Its such a pain in the ass that caching has to be this complicated.

Still running into this problem, works with some voronoi within voronoi setups i have, cache perfectly. For others it is bugged, or something is not switched on.

I have attached a project file. It has already been cached so you can see the problem. When it runs through the caching procedure the animation plays in the viewport perfectly, then the…

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Hello. Been running into some heavy technical difficulties creating a drone show in C4D. The final export is to .PATH files. The plugin that exported directly from C4D does not work, so the work around is to export as FBX or Alembic, import into Blender and then export from the plugin from there.

Colour is currently the issue. It seems to work fine…

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BUMP! why is it hard to get an answer to this

The take system in C4D is recently the bane of my existence. forgetting you have it overrides on autotake for just a few moves can throw your project into a confusing array thats hard to get back.

More specifically I’ve noticed what seems to be a bug. I’m changing the colour of a redshift light in a child take and it is changing the master colour…

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I am aware that thats how rendering works. This is not the case here. There are no new elements on introduced on the frame that the render crashes/hangs. By itself the frame would render the same as any before it.

It happened again last night, rendering each frame as normal, then about 6hrs in. It is just stuck on one frame. It doesnt seem like it…

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Happens maybe every now and again. Leaving a sequence to render over night and it will get stuck on a random frame indefinitely rendering. Woke up to a see that 40 frames had rendered at pretty steady 6mins each then the time for 41 was 7 hrs and counting.

What is causing this? Thanks

Nope, not doing any rendering nor do I have redshift open. Simply C4D locking up and then becoming functional again but the viewports are frozen. No way around it but a restart. It happens quite often. Anyone else having this problem?

Usually when doing something a little demanding like dynamics, but sometimes just orbiting around with camera. C4D will freeze up for about 10 seconds, then will seem to be working again except that the viewports are frozen. All functionality seems to still be there but obviously cannot see what Im doing.

Anyone know what causes this?

using 2025.1.2

Figured it out for anyone that is interested.

Inside the cloner (Containing the particle objects) in the Object tab, there are basic properties for the incon visibility. Toggle them to off. No more balls.

Have made a particle simulation using some leaves in a cloner. Cloner set to object, object being particle group. All good, working how I want it.

Only problem is its rendering the little spheres from the emitter or the particle group somewhere and I cant for the life of me figure out how to turn it off. Please help.

I used to be able to select a bunch of layers that have masks on them, hit F for feather, unfolding all layers to open their feather properties. Then changing one would change all. This doesnt work anymore. Anyone know if this is a new update? I recently installed a wacom driver that has been doing some weird shit, but I think only when its…

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this doesnt explain why the viewport is different to the render. Anyone can answer this? This has happened a few times with different geometry

It was default to height map, i changed it to normal tangent and the other one too. The problem is why the viewport and the render are different. Thats the issue. I want to know why they are not synced up. When I change the offset and length sliders on the material tag it updates in the viewport but has no effect on the render…

Cannot figure this thing out. I have a bump map connected to a redshift shader, and its ‘working’ in that it does bump. But the projection mapping is not updating in the redshift view. What is going on here?! Don’t understand how it can be so unintuitive doing something so simple.

Thanks for the help in advance

Still cant figure this out. Not sure what you mean by SDS subdivision? nor replacing the voronoi with a cloner?? Anyone actually know how to cache voronoi fractures? It shouldnt be this complicated. Im missing something obvious here

Cant seem to get this to work. I have a voronoi within a voronoi object. The first is the basic cracking apart, then the second is for when the collider object crashes through. I have a rigid body tag on the top voronoi. When I cache, it seems to be working fine in the viewport but then its bugged out when the cache plays back. Voronoi piece are… Read more

I cannot figure this out, spent hours trying different combinations.

I discovered this problem with the alpha when i tried to apply depth of field to my render. I am rendering within C4D using Arnold and have tried the Z depth (Which they say is not a good option) also a position pass both within the same EXR as an AOV and also a seperate… Read more