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I’d have responded sooner, but I hadn’t tested enough to feel comfortable.

I have been using Leopard on my MBP (2.33 Core 2 Duo, 2 GB) with a Cinema 4D 9.6 and After Effects 7 production workflow since a week after Leopard was released, and haven’t noticed any quirks yet in Cinema. I use a pretty diverse set of tools within Cinema and AE, including HDRI, composite renders, and camera data export from Cinema to After Effects.

Plugins that worked before still work now.

Render speed decrease in Cinebench was there but negligible. (CB 690-700 now… previously scored 700-720)

Update to 10.5.1 has actually sped up everything.

After Effects has given a little grief… I had to reinstall it to solve a problem I was having with RAM Previews taking a bit too long to complete. That’s about it though.

I hope this is helpful. As always, CYA… make a backup that you can easily reload before you upgrade your OS. I made two… One on an external HD before the installation, and then I let the Leopard Installation do an “Archive and Install” that backs up to a “Previous Systems” folder on another Hard Drive.

Justincredible
3D Animations
Honolulu, HI

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Thanks a lot for the response… I’ll check those links out and see how they look.

Thanks.

[Justincredible]

Hi Chris,

In the default Cinema 4D layout, just to the right of the Move/Rotate/Scale tools, there are X,Y,Z axis-lock toggles, and a Global/Object coordinate toggle button (icon is an Axis below and to the left of a Cube, or a Globe for Object and Global, respectively).

With the Move tool active, if you turn off X and Z in the axis toggles, and click the Object/Global toggle, you should be able to just move your object in the Global Y space.

If you have changed your layout, you can find them under the “Tools” menu, or use the shortcut keys. ‘X’,’Y’,’Z’ toggle the axis-locks, and ‘W’ toggles Global/Object coordinates.

Hope this helps!
-Justin

Justin Faberlle
3D Animator
New York, NY

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Hi Brian,

Thanks for the reply.

That setting is in the Cinema 4D program preferences. That is not an option in the Cinema 4D NET Server or Client programs’ preferences, and the machine acting as the server only runs the NET Server and Client programs.
They are totally different and separate programs.

Thanks for the suggestion though… It made me look through all the settings on the server again to make sure I hadn’t missed something like that.

Anyone else care to venture a guess? Any Maxon people know how I can hack the NET Server program to force it to use only one CPU, while leaving both cores available to the NET Client program?

Justin Faberlle
3D Animator
New York, NY