For 2032 me if I’m still kicking around. This is what I needed (the Camera Morph Tag).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wDHe0t8hic

Went looking for this in 2025 and find 2018 me answering my own question. Thank you, young me.

That works like a dream. Thank you so much, Dan. I am so grateful.

Hi there,

I am trying to set a position on layers with a Dropdown menu controller on each layer. This code I have cobbled together is not working correctly. Option 3 puts the line where Option 1 should. And vice versa. And Option 2 is the same as Option 1. Very confused! Any help would be massively appreciated.

Thank you!

dropdown =…

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OK, I’ve achieved this by splitting the lines in the CSV document. Would still be curious! Thank you again.

Thank you very much, Yoan. But this doesn’t quite do what I need to.

To explain myself better – in Illustrator (see attached images) when you create text within a box it automatically splits the lines.

Is there any way of doing that?

Hi there,

I’ve had a good look around – I can find lots of tutorials which create a box around pre-established text. But none the other way around 😭

With this, I could have a set sized box and then fill it with text (actually coming in from a CSV) and have the lines automatically split.

This would be such a great help.

Thank you.

I imported a CSV file into the comp with the text stacked in multiple rows in one column. Then created a bunch of text layers pointing each source text to the top layer – it returned a value like this footage(“text.csv”).dataValue([0,0]). That looks like it will work fine for me. Then I can swap out the text layer.

Hi Dan,

I was wondering if this will still work in 2024? Trying and failing right now 🙁

The trick is to use the polgon reduction tool.

Hi Michael, Thank you for getting back to me. The thing about the Triangulate Mesh Tool is that it only subdivides the Quads in two – it doesn’t create a homogenous triangular mesh.

Hi there,

Is there a method of creating a triangulated mesh like this (simply only of a plane) in C4D R21?

I see that the new Remesh function allows one change the Polygon type in R23 but I am not working with that version yet.

Many thanks.

thank you yes. at 1000% right now so cranked up pretty high. anyway thanks for getting back to me.

hi justin, thanks for getting back to me. physical renderer.

i just did a test on a single object and it seemed to work fine – i just can’t see it very much in my scene.

Hi there,

I’m hoping this is possible. Is there a reason a PNG image sequence in a luminance channel does not emit light in a GI calculation? Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you.

OK. Dug around in the basement. Here goes:

http://woebot.com/web_archive/commotion.zip

hi there,

just a note to say i have seen this and will try and dig out the old drivers this week (which i definitely have somewhere) i will update this thread in due course.

matt

I used to type SHIFT+1 (etc) to make a marker. And then type 1 to go to that marker.

It was a completely essentially part of my workflow. Now, unless I am missing something it has vanished!

Pointers would be greatly appreciated…

ok figured this out:

– add a null
– put an expresso tag on it
– add 4x user data entries to the null (0-100)
– drop the null into the expresso tag and turn on the user data at the bottom
– drag the icon of the transparency gradient of a standard shader into the xpresso window (couldnt get this to work with arnold)
– connect the four user… Read more

Would anyone be able to give me a quick summary as to how to do this?

Is it a basic Xpresso thing?

Thank you.