[Lennart Wåhlin]

SaveProject.. does all you are asking for (except start the render, you do that in a browser).
Please try yourself using a scene that have textures in it. Use SaveProject… straight into the Admin folder of the Server.
Now look in the Admin folder, what do you see?
Open a browser and and you see the render is ready, textures and all

I don’t know how to explain it clearer, try it.

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Lennart

[Lennart Wåhlin]

“SaveProject.” is very similar to AE “Collect” so you will need a new SaveProject for each Camera take. SaveProject.. takes care of all naming, you’ll get a Folder called the choosen name and inside that folder is the .c4d scene file and the tex folder. After the NET render there is a additional folder with your result.
Just make a few simple scenes yourself and try out what workflow siuts you best.

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Lennart

[Lennart Wåhlin]

My workflow since years and with the way NET works as of now.
Finish your scene and save (Save As..)it as per usuall on your workstation. Make a editor render so you see that all textures are rendered.
This is your “back up” scene.
Now save the scene again, this time using “SaveProject”. This time save it directly into the admin folder on the server.
The “SaveProject” collects all the textures in the scene and place them in a “tex” folder on the server.
NOTE. Add some kind of prefix or ending to the name, like “MysceneNET”.
The reason is that this is the scene that now is open on your workstation. The “workstation” version gets closed. Any further work on the scene that you
now see open is actually done to the scene save on the server.

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Lennart

[Lennart Wåhlin]

For layers in R10 you have the lock option in the layer manager (would be good to be able to right-click the layer sign directly in OM thou).
Then you have the Protect Tag, it will only stop the object from being moved, you can still edit it.
And then you can add a no-selectable coffee setup.

I have a ready setup called GOGONONO at my site.

https://www.tcastudios.com then go xfiles.

There is a readme included that covers R9.6. The GOGO Tag is not yet optimized for R10 but NONO (the tag you are looking for)
should work fine in R10.

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Lennart

[Lennart Wåhlin]

Putting your merged animated object under a Null and then move the Null should work.

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Lennart

[Lennart Wåhlin]

You can try having a Null following the Spline then put the Camera as a child of that Null. Move the Camera up and tilt it down.
Otherwise you might need to use a MultiTargetTag for the Camera.

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Lennart

[Lennart Wåhlin]

Have you tried using the Deformer on an Instance of your “xpresso” object?

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Lennart

[Lennart Wåhlin]

As said above. But, -if- you can get the means of getting the StudioBundle (All modules) plus MoGraph, try to.
Even if the different Modules are meant for “special” purposes, bits of every module do come in handy in many situations
and not always in the way thay are meant to.
Not only do you get in cheaper to start with, updates gets cheaper also.
IF you need a module later, it is not “in the Bundle” you initially bought, and hence need a separate update.

Many online answers do take advantage of solving problems with combinations of wildly spread parts of Cinemas tools.
So, I think that in the long run you will save time and some money jumping at the StudioBundle straight away.

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Lennart

[Lennart Wåhlin]

Try hold “Shift” while dragging.
Otherwise, select the sequense(R9) but not the keyframes and in its AM type a new endvalue.
It would be something similar in R10 I’d guess. Don’t have it open just now.
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Lennart

[Lennart Wåhlin]

If you are in a hurry and are running R10 with MoGraph you can see if the StepCLOCK rig might work for you.

http://www.tcastudios.com -> xfiles -> StepCLOCK Item 027

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Lennart